Pumpkin Ale
Funk Brewing Co. in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey Regular|
Score
6.51
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cheap (9533) reviewed Pumpkin Ale from Funk Brewing Co. 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
My can is listed as 'let's give'em pumkin to talk about' this is probably the correct name for this but what ever. Pour is a brownish pale cloudy thang. Nose is a vegetable squash volatile olfactory. First taste is an odd veggie thing that has very little if any pumpkin spice in there. Most domestic pumpkin beers are so pumpkin spiced forward, this is not. Just wondering if there really is any pumpkin spice in there at all. BTW, I'm glad for the lack of pumpkin spices in this. Weird peculiar unique squashy alky flavor in this one. Strong yet does not insult. Definitely a unique beer for a pumpky. Yes, this is one of the few pumpkin beers where I can actually taste pumpkin; big thanks there funky. Decent CO2 in the middle. Good pumpkin flavors. Stronger yet never insulting. If you want a beer that actually tastes like pumpkin, here yah go. All my peers say pumpkin alone has no flavor and that's why you need heavy spices, but this stuff proves them wrong!
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Pumpkin Ale from Funk Brewing Co. 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Relatively strong and rich, 80 per cent opaque deep copper and brown coloured body with a lighter bronze glow, but still pretty hazy, especially for the style, with a thinnish, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of squash, brown sugars, some toffee, a bit of light earthiness with a dash of yeast here, but the squash richness comes out for sure, in the nose at a minimum. Medium to Full-bodied; Very strong squash and caramelised sugar notes show at first with a good dash of allspice and light canella flavours come through with a little dryness from the malts, but the toffee sweetness on the end is enjoyable, as are the squash flavours which hit very nicely and mellow this out. Aftertaste shows a good malt character with some noticeable sweet flavours from the caramel and toffee with some additional sugars from the squash itself, but a lot of richness and malt qualities come from the squash, too, of course. Overall, a nice beer that has some good flavours from the squash, but the richness it provides and the sugars alongside this make this very nice and enjoyable - recommended if you can find it, even in Winter! I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-size can, purchased from GlenRo Spirit Shoppe in Monroe, Connecticut on 25-November-2022 for US$3,99, part of Batch #2599 (from bottom of can), sampled in my hotel room here in Orlando, Florida with my wife and three kids on 28-December-2022.