Pumpkinhead
(has 3 batches)
Shipyard Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Pumpkin Autumn|
Score
6.03
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Pumpkinhead is a crisp, refreshing wheat ale with delightful aromatics and subtle spice flavor.
To celebrate the fall season, we enhance the pumpkin flavor with a proprietary blend of spices including cinnamon and nutmeg.
To celebrate the fall season, we enhance the pumpkin flavor with a proprietary blend of spices including cinnamon and nutmeg.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
23rd November 2011
Bright clear gold beer. No real head. Light crispy palate. Sweet pumpkin, a little tangy. Trace of orange. Prefectly spiced (ie not too much). Finishes semi dry. To date the best pumpkin beer I’ve had.
Bright clear gold beer. No real head. Light crispy palate. Sweet pumpkin, a little tangy. Trace of orange. Prefectly spiced (ie not too much). Finishes semi dry. To date the best pumpkin beer I’ve had.
Tried
on 03 Feb 2013
at 04:18
4.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle @ HenrikSoegaard tasting. Clear golden with a with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, pumpkin and quite spicy - cinnamon. Flavor is quite sweet. Sweet finish. Too spicy for my liking. 171112
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2012
at 12:01
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Bottle. Frothy white fair mostly deminishing head. Yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy aroma. Pumpkin and cinnamon notes. And Notes And notes. Please stop. Light bitter flavor. Short light bitter finish. Too spicey. Watery palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Nov 2012
at 12:00
4.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
12oz bottle pours a hazy orange with some hazy white head. Nose is almost not there, cardboard, honey, malt, light spice. Flavor is better, sweet, root vegetables, some spice, some ginger, some nutmeg, very faint vanilla. Watery finish. Drinkable, but definitely not the best Pumpkin beer out there.
Earlier Rating: 2/12/2007 Total Score: 3.3
Pours with a whispy white head and an... uh, pumpkin color. Smells of nutmeg and vegetables, like celery. Flavor was fun, malty and sweet but spicy. Finish is nutmeg and cinnamon like pie. I couldn’t drink 10, but one was enjoyable.
Earlier Rating: 2/12/2007 Total Score: 3.3
Pours with a whispy white head and an... uh, pumpkin color. Smells of nutmeg and vegetables, like celery. Flavor was fun, malty and sweet but spicy. Finish is nutmeg and cinnamon like pie. I couldn’t drink 10, but one was enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2012
at 05:16
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Crisp clear light copper coloured body with a two centimetre tall just off-white head and a trillion bubbles rising from the bottom. Aroma of pumpkin, light malt, some small amounts of caramelised sugars and a bit of light spices. Light-bodied; A tiny flavour of spices shows up at first with a mild maltiness, some light sugars and not much else, perhaps a hint of allspice and nutmeg. Aftertaste is subdued, yet showing some good flavours for the season. Overall, a lighter, but still decent herb/spice with not much going on, but a decent beer to drink if you don’t want much flavour for a pumpkin beer. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Trader Joe’s in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia on 05-October-2012 for US$1.00 sampled at home in Washington on 20-October-2012.
Earlier Rating: 9/20/2003 Total Score: 1.3
2003 Batch:
Golden colour, no tints nor shades...medium sized white head. Smells of malt and a bit of nutmeg...nothing good in the nose really. Strong pumpkin flavour INSTANTLY fades into a normal american standard taste of stale malt and bad hops. In the aftertaste a very minimal amount of spice is tasted. Overall, I was VERY disapointed with this beer...a very bad offering from Shipyard who usually produces decent beers. I'll try this next year, but definately not again this year. I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, New York.
Earlier Rating: 9/20/2003 Total Score: 1.3
2003 Batch:
Golden colour, no tints nor shades...medium sized white head. Smells of malt and a bit of nutmeg...nothing good in the nose really. Strong pumpkin flavour INSTANTLY fades into a normal american standard taste of stale malt and bad hops. In the aftertaste a very minimal amount of spice is tasted. Overall, I was VERY disapointed with this beer...a very bad offering from Shipyard who usually produces decent beers. I'll try this next year, but definately not again this year. I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, New York.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Oct 2012
at 23:11
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Purchased at Evolution Liquors in Chicago, IL; enjoyed on a Thursday night getting ready for the weekend. Appearance is a partially cloudy gold with almost no head. Aroma of pumpkin spice, sweetness, not too bad. Taste is a below-average pumpkin ale, not really much going on with this one.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2012
at 17:12
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Red Hots cinnamon and pumpkin aroma. Hazy golden with a small white head. Strong cinnamon, citrus, ginger, and pumpkin malt flavor. Light body. Not horrible, but the cinnamon tends to overpower, and I don’t know if I’ve ever had a citrusy pumpkin ale. A little strange.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Sep 2012
at 13:44