Wachusett Brewing Company Pumpkin Ale

Pumpkin Ale

 

Wachusett Brewing Company in Westminster, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

  Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn
Score
6.50
ABV: 5.9% IBU: 20 Ticks: 9
New England's first pumpkin in a can. A blend of spicy malts, spices, & Blonde Belgian Candi sugar creates a deep orange color with subtle spice flavor.

Formerly Boo-Yeah! and Pumpkan
 

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6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Herber, gewürzig und hellmalziger Beginn. Anis, Nelke, etwas Zimt, trocken werdend, milde Bitterkeit. Süffig, mittellanger Abgang, harmonisch. 8/9/9/8/8/8

Tried from Can on 10 Jan 2026 at 19:22


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

A clear deep golden beer with a white head. Aroma of decent pumpkin spices, cinnamon, caramel. Taste of pumpkin spices, cinnamon, anis and biscuit malt.

Tried from Can on 08 Jan 2026 at 14:06


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

355ml. can. @"home", Compostela. 20/12/2025
[#8.788 Global - #1.917 United States of America - #1 Wachusett Brewing Company (My Brewery #433 from the States)]
Pours light amber with a medium and lasting white head. Aroma: clove, pumpkin, cinnamon and bready malts. Taste: medium spiced with pumpkin pie on the back.
Next one, please!

Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2025 at 12:11


6.4
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5.5

Review based on BJCP2021 guidelines (style 29B: pumpkin puree and spices / base unknown). Can 35.5 cl - Batch unknown (BB: undeclared - Canned on 09/02/25) AROMA: medium to medium-low pumpkin, cinnamon, slight clove. medium-low to low neutral malt background with slight sweetness. APPEARANCE: deep gold to light amber color and clear. medium-low ivory head, creamy, with ok retention. TASTE: initial medium-low pumpkin and spices (cinnamon, clove) with a low neutral malt background. medium-high bitterness with a dry, bitter and yeasty finish. MOUTHFEEL: medium body with medium carbonation. slight astringency. OVERALL: a pumpkin ale with good aroma but with unbalanced bitterness and yeasty flavor.

Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2025 at 16:18


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6

Beer Republic Advent Calendar 2025, Red Edition. Door 19. An amber beer, a head is medium and blond. Aroma has spicyness, but not too much, pumpkin, some sweetness. Taste has balanced spicyness and pumpkin. Medium bodied. Pumpkin ales are not my favourite, but this is pretty ok.

Tried from Can from Beer Republic on 19 Dec 2025 at 11:03


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can at a Halloween party. Amber orange pour. Nose is pumpkin and nutmeg. Tastes the same with additional caramel, pie crust, all spice. Thinner bodied.

Tried on 03 Nov 2025 at 03:59


5.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5

Reviewed from notes.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a ruddy burnt orange almost copper color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head that dissipated immediately.
No lace.
The aroma had some pumpkin sweetness, light ginger, allspice, doughy malts, caramel sweetness and some leather.
The flavor was moderately sweet with the spices not blending as well as I had hoped for. Aftertaste was disengaged from spices to malts. Finish was spicy.
The palate was between light and medium bodied. Low sessionability. Decent carbonation. ABV felt fine.
Overall, better pumpkin ales on the market, probably not again for me.

Tried on 14 May 2017 at 13:13


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

12 oz. can purchased at the Beer Store, Nashua for $1.75 U.S. Clear copper /orange color without much head of any kind. Aroma is gourd upfront with light caramel malt with weak allspice in the back side.

Overall, pretty standard pumpkin brew. Flavor of caramel malt base, nutmeg, all spice and a touch of authentic pumpkin (not pie filling). The body is on the thin side with a watery feel. Other than the body, no problems and serviceable without doubt. For the price I have no complaints.

Tried from Can on 26 Oct 2014 at 12:16


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pours amber into a shaker. White head with medium retention. Pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon aromas. Medium bodied with sweet pumpkin upfront turning to holiday spices before the mild bitter finish.

Tried on 28 Oct 2012 at 12:06