Mom & Pop's Pumpkin Crop Lager

Pint can. Pumpkin aroma with notes of grainy malt, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and clove. Pours clear copper colored with a thin off white head that has some retention but excellent lacing. Starts with pumpkin, grainy malt, ginger and allspice flavors. Finishes smooth and fairly refreshing with nutmeg, cinnamon and clove flavors. Pretty decent fall lager.

S: allspice - light malts - toast A: light copper coloured body - thin tan head T: pumpkin pie spice (duh!) - light squash - rustic P: earthy - some nuttiness - good caramelised sugars O: well-balanced - easy-drinking - smooth malts 16 ounce can - Wegman's (grocery): Richmond (Short Pump), Virginia - canned: 10-July-2024 -   purchased: 03-November-2024 - US$4,50 - sampled: a few hours later at Great Wolf Lodge with my three kids in Williamsburg, Virginia

Draught at Sunset Grill, 11/25/15.
Clear, glassy, dark amber with some light mahogany tints. Beige head is small and mostly dissipating, though you can never be sure if that’s the beer or the very poor maintenance of the draught lines at this place.
Lots of pumpkin in the nose, meaty and rich and quite authentic. Nutmeg, allspice and vanilla round it out, but are not overdone, as dry caramel and toffee enter the mix as well. Good, clean, pumpkin fun, with no flaw or alcohol noted.
Flavor is pumpkiny, that’s for sure. Meaty, rich and just like the nose. In a sense it dominates the beer, but you can tell this is meant to be a pumpkin-centered/pumpkin-forward beer, not just a dark lager with a slight pumpkin aspect. I don’t find it too sweet, there’s no artificiality to it and the spicing, while somewhat prominent, isn’t overdone. Medium body, off-dry overall with a bit of a hard texture from what I’d guess are some crystal malts. Medium to low carbonation really concentrates the pumpkin. I really, really like pumpkin beers (when real pumpkins are used), so I may be a bit biased here. Definitely a one-trick pony and if you’re looking for a subtle pumpkin beer, this is not your man.

500 ml bottle. Mostly clear copper color with lasting head in the snifter. Aroma is about what you would expect, cinnamon, nutmeg and a light dose of brown sugar. Not much in the way of gourd but that is kind of typical. Medium carbonation, fairly light body. Flavor has caramel, dried leaves, toasted bread, spices and very mild pumpkin like essence. Overall par for the course and is what it should be for a lager.

Tap at World of Beers at the cross gates mall prior to a movie. Pours orange with nice head and fine lacing. Nose is nice fresh pumpkin squash and hints of spicing. The spices are light of nutmeg and cinnamon and plenty of squash Flavors. Drying with some earthy bitterness. Everything is subdued and very drinkable lager. The fact you can drink this in a mall is awesome.

50cl bottle pours a hazy copper amber with some thin, white head. Nose is nice, nutmeg, brown sugar, caramelized root, veg, some white pepper, almost a little cardamom. Flavor is earthy, brown sugar, root veg, carrot, parsnip, cinnamon, a little green tea. Clean finish.

Bottle from Resdstone. Pours a crystal clear orange amber color with a decent sized off white head that dissipates fairly quickly. Aromas mostly of nutmeg and cinnamon with a little bit of brown sugar. The flavor is sweet with a bready brown sugary maltiness. Cinnamon and nutmeg provide the only counter to the sweetness and the malt is winning. Medium body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet spiced mouthfeel. Decent enough pumpkin beer, I couldn’t drink much of this, but its better than most.

Pours deep slightly hazed amber into a Sam glass. White head with little retention recedes to mottle surface. Cinnamon, pumpkin and nutmeg aromas. Soft with sweet caramel upfront turning to pumpkin and spice in the dry, medium length finish.