Forbidden Pumpkin
Abomination Brewing Company in North Haven, Connecticut, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Twelve Percent Beer ProjectIPA - Milkshake Autumn
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Score
7.38
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Forbidden Pumpkin is an Imperial Pumpkin milkshake IPA that clocks in at 9.3% brewed with malted oats and flaked wheat, double dry hopped with Citra and Mosaic then fermented atop a monstrous amount of pumpkins, vanilla beans, pumpkin spice and milk sugar. This hazy IPA pairs perfectly with hoodies, fall hikes and nights out by the fire pit with friends!
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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Beer Republic. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity, light cinnamon, vanilla and moderate hoppy - fruity. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet and light bitter finish. Oily and soft. 050426
Tried
from Can
on 05 Apr 2026
at 18:10
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can to snifter.
Appearance: burnt orange cardboard haziness in the glass with a one and a quarter fingers of white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light spotty lace
Aroma: Citra and Mosaic hops snap on some semi-sweet wheaty tones and allow some pumpkin fleshy sweetness, light vanilla and milk sugar to mix in the blend
Flavor: semi-sweet, dry hopped sort of dry sweetness; pumpkin pie spice tones; no aftertaste
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat a sipper; semi-smooth along the tongue; finishes with the pumpkin fleshy sweet and the Citra & Mosaic hops
Overall: who knew that I could like a milkshake IPA after all. It's not usually a style I feel the need to try all the time but this brewer did it and I would see myself coming back to this.
Appearance: burnt orange cardboard haziness in the glass with a one and a quarter fingers of white foamy head which slid off nicely to leave some light spotty lace
Aroma: Citra and Mosaic hops snap on some semi-sweet wheaty tones and allow some pumpkin fleshy sweetness, light vanilla and milk sugar to mix in the blend
Flavor: semi-sweet, dry hopped sort of dry sweetness; pumpkin pie spice tones; no aftertaste
Texture: medium bodied, somewhat a sipper; semi-smooth along the tongue; finishes with the pumpkin fleshy sweet and the Citra & Mosaic hops
Overall: who knew that I could like a milkshake IPA after all. It's not usually a style I feel the need to try all the time but this brewer did it and I would see myself coming back to this.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jan 2026
at 15:44
7.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours hazy gold into a tulip. Pumpkin aromas. Hot with sweet cinnamon and ginger upfront turning to sourdough in the dry, medium-length finish.
Tried
on 27 Nov 2025
at 21:58
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
16oz can from Tavour. Milky yellow pour, thick, creamy white head. Aroma is lactose with light pumpkin pie spice notes. Taste is vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom. Mild pumpkin flavors too. Creamy, rich.
Tried
from Can
from Tavour
on 12 Oct 2025
at 04:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pint can from Niemuth's, 10/7/24. Hazy orange, medium beige head, average retention. Aroma of pumpkin, gingerbread. This is an IPA? Hmm.... Taste is the same but with some citrus. Tasty, but it's not an IPA by any stretch.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2025
at 13:01
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Blood orange, squash nose. Cloudy amber, medium head. Allspice, ginger, peanut hull, orange. Full body, easy carbonation. Expected a mess, actually enjoyed it. I wouldn't drink it regularly, but I'd drink 2-3 in a sesh.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2024
at 23:24
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
A murky golden yellow beer with a big white head. Aroma of lactose, yeast, yellow fruits. Taste of sweet yellow stone fruits, some pumpkin spices, vanilla, lacto.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2024
at 14:15
7/10
Floral fruity nose with lots of hops. Great fruity floral hazy IPA with a nice herbal hops, milk sugar and pumpkin. Fruity nice finish, great spicy fruity pumpkin over a classic hazy IPA. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Oct 2024
at 18:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16 oz can. I dig the label art. Aroma is vanilla, clove, nutmeg. A lot of times milkshake, IPAs can get too sweet. This one doesn’t. Mostly due to the amount ofspice. Not a whole lot of gourd but the vanilla and the spices are here. Better then I thought otherwise would be.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Sep 2024
at 19:29
8.8/10
Spiced, pumpkin, vanilla and a bit of cinnamon. No bitterness
Tried
from Can
on 04 Jul 2024
at 18:24