Pumpkin Ale
Great Lakes Brewery (Canada) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Regular|
Score
6.77
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In our pursuit to bring you the most flavourful and unique beers possible, we are proud to release this tasty autumn ale. Handcrafted with an assortment of specialty malts and hops, we added a generous amount of pumpkin directly into the brew. Combine this with hints of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and allspice, and you’ve got a beer that you won’t soon forget. Rich, satisfying and slightly spicy, our seasonal ale goes perfectly with your favourite dessert or traditional feast. But like fall, Pumpkin Ale comes but once a year!
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7/10
Lighter than I was expecting but decent if a bit too smooth (I like my pumpkins spicy) but I easily finished it so it's got that.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Oct 2025
at 20:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
A bit of a fizzy, thin white head on an unexpectedly light and transparent ginger ale-like body. The nose features brown sugar, cloves and nutmeg. A very nice pumpkin ale, with enough pumpkin, cloves and nutmeg to easily earn the name. The malt is bready on one level, but I do taste some seasonal pie crust as well! A hint of citrus hops livens up the taste profile. Light bodied but very flavourful. Nice balances. A great beer at the price!
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:02
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Aromas of pumpkin spices, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and a touch of malt. Flavor is much of the same, putting this side by side with the st ambroise i’m finding them very very similar, but this one seems a tad more full bodied, and have a little less of a thin flavor profile.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:08
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
I’ve been meaning to try this one for AGES! Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale 5.5% Gold with a touch of orange color and thin light beige foam. Cinnamon and nutmeg aroma. Medium bodied with a bit of a scratchy carbonation. The taste is spices then pumpkin pie like pumpkin flesh. My Uncle says this is the best pumpkin brew in Ontario. I’ve not tried enough to say but it’s a damn good example of the style.
Tried
on 29 Oct 2024
at 02:19
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster at the brewery. Lightly cloudy, deep gold colored. AROMA- pleasant mix of spices, pumpkin. FLAVOR- moderately sweet, slightly bitter, spices, pumpkin. Medium bodied. Good.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2022
at 19:50
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
This pumpkin ale poured a slightly cloudy, medium amber colour with a creamy, bright white head. Minimal lacing. Scents include pumpkin, allspice and nutmeg. First swig was a little thin and sweet with flavours of pumpkin pie, orange peel and a little hop. Finish is mildly bitter with pumpkin pie flavour lingering.
Tried
on 25 Nov 2018
at 01:17
8/10
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Tried
on 11 Oct 2015
at 22:03
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle - Sweet pumpkin and spice notes. Clear gold with a decent white head. Pumpkin notes and nice spice. Lots of pumpkin and not just spice. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Sep 2015
at 13:58
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Tasted from the bottle on the 25/10/2014. Clear orange amber colour with medium white head. Intense spicy and herby aroma with black pepper that dissapears on time. Taste is cinnamon, wheat, pepper and pumpkin. Medium sugar on the beer. Pumpkin on the aftertaste too. Next one please!
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2014
at 10:52
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Review according to BJCP2008 guidelines (style 21A). Bottle 65cl - batch n. ?. AROMA: very pleasant pumpkin aroma combined with spices (clove, nutmeg and cinnamon mainly). no esters or other fermentable by-products noticeable. APPEARANCE: Orange / copper, clear, with moussy of-white average retention head. TASTE: distinctive spice flavours (cinnamon, clove, nutmeg). no hop flavours but with a balanced bitterness that lingers towards the end. finishes with a note of cinnamon. PALATE: medium body with a velvety palate. moderate to moderate-low carbonation. no astringency. OVERALL: a great vegetable and spices balanced ale.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2014
at 15:54