Jack
Urban Artifact in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn|
Score
7.31
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cheap (9533) reviewed Jack from Urban Artifact 1 month ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
3$ can from vintage. Pale yellow with an orange tint & slightly foggy. Fairly neutral nose, barely any pumpkin spices, but it does have a tiny metallic hint and maybe even, just maybe, a tad of real pumpkin on the nose. First taste is surprizingly quite tart. Wow, what a difference from the conventional spiced pumpkin bombs! Almost seems to have a wild attitude about it. Yes, since I like tart brews, I'm liking this. Not cloyingly, nor mouth coating sweet, like so many other pumpkin brews. Also has some good cutting carbonation in here. The tartness and the co2 give it an amusing palate. No real pumpkin spices in this. Its so nice to have a pumpkin beer that is not a messy bomb of excessive cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice smacking you in the face. And, its also so nice that its not sickly cloying. You'd never know the alky in this is close to 8%!! Certainly one of the more enjoyable pumpkin beers, if not the best, I've had in a long time. This pumpkin taste is more like pumpkins compared to all the other pumpkin beers I’ve tasted. Good tingly carbonation. Not bad, considering I don’t like those typical miserably messy pumpkin mishmashes. An easy beer to like. Other pumpkin brewers should check out this recipe. Does the word pumpkin, good justice. Overall, simply civilized, tart and fun! Would not hesitate to have this again. Did I say yummy? Oh darn the can is empty, balderdash.
patrick767 (7169) reviewed Jack from Urban Artifact 11 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
hazy orange-gold pour. It has a tart, pumpkin and spice aroma. The flavor is moderately tart with pumpkin and pie spices, sweet malt, and generally a fruity character that I guess must come from the pumpkin.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Jack from Urban Artifact 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Canned 7/22/2024, drunk 1/27/2025.
Lightly-to-moderately hazy, light copper-to-golden-brass. Quickly-fizzling, off-white head.
Smells like a pumpkin pie. Maybe a bit heavy handed on the spice...especially given this is 6 months old. But there's a fruity, juiciness to it that suggests there's actual pumpkin in here, as well. As with their other beers, no heavy lactic acidity. Quite aromatic, clean, inviting, albeit spice-forward.
Softer than expected in both texture and flavor. Sweet malts up front add brown sugar and a bit of caramel, as spices don't have any aggressive acidity left, at this point (if they ever did). Low lactic character and only just slightly tart, really. Malty and almost juicy with what seems like quite a bit of vanilla. Glad the cinnamon/clove/nutmeg isn't strong in flavor, allowing the malt and other characteristics to shine. Quite balanced and drinkable.
kristincedar (7052) ticked Jack from Urban Artifact 1 year ago
Dogbrick (24210) ticked Jack from Urban Artifact 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
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