Pumpkin Maple Ale
Crooked Current Brewery in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States 🇺🇸
Other Regular|
Score
6.39
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Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Pumpkin Maple Ale from Crooked Current Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 9/9/16.
Dark, maple-amber body has strong chestnut highlights, a good clarity and a small-to-medium, beige head showing moderate retention.
Lots of maple and pumpkin fill the nose. It’s clear these guys are good at extracting the desired aromatic compounds from adjuncts, and not going overboard. Seems to help that they are using, real, whole, quality ingredients too. Light spice is nicely done in the background and vanilla-honey maltiness helps balance and add substance to the nose. No alcohol or flaw.
Sweet, lightly sticky and with plenty of maple in the flavor, the pumpkin isn’t overdone, and light caramel and vanilla malt notes are found, as well as a malty, but well-attenuated texture. Light spicing lingers nicely, along with authentic pumpkin character and maple sugars (light). Great stuff. Should be able to appreciate the quality here, regardless of whether you like pumpkin, as that is very well-done here. Maple’s a bit stronger, but still not overdone.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Not really my thing as I don’t like pumpkin or maple. Pours cloudy r orange with good head. Very Sweet. Loads of msple.