Pumpkin Abbey
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
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Score
6.67
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Poured from the tap. Medium brown with small off white head. Very mild pumpkin spices, mild brown ale with hint of spices. not a standout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Funny the description on this beer on the Indie starts "We were not big fans of pumpkin beers" and I have to agree with them. Most are spice shit storms like the Mill Street Pumpkin atrocity, but the guys at Indie got this one right. Just the head up. The booze number on the board was listed as 8%, their site lists it at 9%. Pours a red-brown that’s clear, with a finger of sticky-looking tan head. Some nice complexity to this beer. No spice smack down. Taste rich sweet roast and cereal malts, there is a spiciness maybe allspice, with a little bitterness. No really pumpkin flavour (maybe I don’t know what I’m looking for.) Overall very nice, a good sipper. And heads up if your looking for it they have it in bottles at their shop. At least for now.
Lubiere (24390) reviewed Pumpkin Abbey from Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. 12 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A hazed brown ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, with dark fruits, sweet molasses, nice. in mouth, a rather dark fruit malt with wooden notes, light nuttyness, burned side, OK. Cask at Cask Days 2012, as Double Barrel Pumpkin Ale.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
(Draught at Bryden’s, Toronto, Sept 22 2012 as Indie Alehouse Pumpkin Abbey, ABV listed as 9% on menu) Pours a very dark slightly reddish brown with a thin, white fading head that left no lace. Aroma of pumpkin pie filling with relatively light spicing from cinnamon, clove and nutmeg, dark sweet fruity malts and a bit of yeastiness. Flavour follows the nose, with a moderately sweet but not cloying character and some drying from the spice and alcohol on the finish. Somewhat light body for a big Belgian, fairly soft carbonation, doesn’t quite hide its ABV when warm. The beer’s fruitiness doesn’t let the spices completely overwhelm it, and the dark Belgian style is a good pairing. A bit more body and flavor concentration would kick it up that last notch.