Pumpkin Sour (2015)
Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.40
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from Taniguchi. Cola brown/virtually black with a fizzy beige head and a tart fruity red wine, madeira, cocoa, nutmeg, hazelnut and other hidden spices. Light bodied, raspy and very dry it’s acidic, winey, chocolate fudge, a touch of oak. The bourbon didn’t come out to play until paired with the Haggen Daaz pumpkin ice cream’s creamy nutty gourdy goodness. More tart wine characteristics (oud bruin like) than brown ale bourbon notes come out but it’s still a great twist on the pumpkin ale style. If you want to get them along with vanilla flavors give it enough time to warm up.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2016
at 08:36
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a dark amber brown color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity sour tart spicy pumpkin aroma. Fruity sour tart weak citric pumpkin flavor. Has a fruity sour tart woody pumpkin finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2016
at 05:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
28.06.2016, 0,375l bottle @ home:
Big fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish, dark malts, mild vinegar, oak, minerals, grass, bark, sour dark fruits, dark sugar, sorrel, fruit stones, hay. Taste is sour-ish dry, soda powder, sorrel, mild vinegar, oak, minerals, unripe berries, bark, berry skin, dark malts, grass, sour dark fruits. Medium bitterness, sour-ish mouthfeel. Nice.
Big fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet sour-ish, dark malts, mild vinegar, oak, minerals, grass, bark, sour dark fruits, dark sugar, sorrel, fruit stones, hay. Taste is sour-ish dry, soda powder, sorrel, mild vinegar, oak, minerals, unripe berries, bark, berry skin, dark malts, grass, sour dark fruits. Medium bitterness, sour-ish mouthfeel. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jun 2016
at 14:59
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at the bottle shop bermondsey. Mahogany brown coloured pour with a thin fading tan head. Aroma is sour dough brown bready, brown sugars, lacto, , tangy apple, woody earth. Flavour is composed of tart puckering sour, brown bread, earthy veg, wood, sharp lemon lacto. Sharp sour. Palate is medium bodied, sharp, woody, sweet and sour. Interesting beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2016
at 06:59
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Keg at the Bottle Shop, 07/05/16. Light black with a decent tan head that dissipated edge ward. Nose is funky dark fruit shreds, fruit balsams, light spice, pissy, dark berry esters. Taste comprises soured fruit loaf, funk, cherry balsam, spice, dank wood strokes. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, puckering close. Decent sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2016
at 06:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Keg at the Bottle Shop - Bermondsey. Pours reddish brown with a small off-white head. Nice tart berries in the nose, leather, earth. Light sweet flavour, moderately acetic, with more leathery fruits, tannins, berries. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming on the finish, with decent acetic burn, sweat, tart berries, more leather. Nice complexity. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2016
at 12:40
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
375 ml. bottle. Blackish extremely dark brown red. Zero head, head fizzes away instantly in the fashion of a soft drink, you see some bubbles rise to the surface afterwards. Nose is hugely vinous coffee, bay leaf, sour spices, very vinous with some sweet cherry. Beer is pretty much flat. Taste is comparable to an Oud Bruin. Sour vinous Cherry Coca-Cola, sour cherries, vanilla, spices, hugely vinous, sour lingering acidity, red wine vinegar, sweetish cherries, spices, tobacco, vinegar chocolate. Interesting acidic Oud Bruin, lots of sour wine combined with sweet bourbon notes, vanilla, cherries. Very nice & interesting. Interesting sweet & sour brew. Works really nice, lack of carbonation is not an issue. Not getting pumpkin here which is what I expected but I got something good & very interesting instead so this is good as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Apr 2016
at 13:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle 375ml. [ As Almanac Pumpkin Sour (Wine and Bourbon barrels) ].Clear dark red brown color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting to diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, tart, pumpkin, spicy, pumpkin spices, chocolate - vanilla. Flavor is moderate sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, pumpkin, pumpkin spices, spicy, dry, light chocolate - vanilla - bourbon sweet, tart wine - grapes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20160109]
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2016
at 17:22
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from CBB. Poured into Champagne flutes with chocolate on the side. Spicy, acidic, pumpkin, cinnamon, lactic, touch of acetic acid, caramel, chocolate. Huge, impressive nose. Black with a high, fizzy head that quickly goes flat. Quite sour, spicy, chocolate, vanilla yogurt, cherries, has a decent Flanders red thing going too. Very nice. Well balanced, not too much spice, great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2016
at 05:21
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma of light sourness, some light sour fruit, light spice, cinnamon, wood, bourbon. Flavor is rather sour, fruit, little spice, wet oak, bourbon. Medium body, average carboantion, acidic finish. 100116
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jan 2016
at 05:54