Smashing Pumpkin
BAD Co. - Brewing & Distilling Company in Dishforth, North Yorkshire, England 🏴
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.15
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Smashes of toffee, pumpkin and spices with a warming finish.
FOOD PAIRING
Pair with autumnal festive fayre.
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle from Brewer’s Stall at Good Food Festival, NEC - Hazy brown body, no head. Nose is winter spices, cinnamon, toffee and nutmeg. Sweet and a bit cloying, but the spices clean this off. Fairly pleasant and warming beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours orange, nose is toffee, pumpkin, vanilla, biscuity, spiced, taste has some spice and pumpkin but a bit thin.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Bottle from the brewer’s own stand at the Good Food Show at Birmingham NEC. Rather a dull pale amber. A thin, cardboardy ale with a load of rather harsh nutmeg and cinnamon thrown in, possibly to disguise the poor underlying beer. It needs a richer, maltier beer to work with these spices. Overall this is a bit of a mess I’m afraid, it’s not working at all for me.
