7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Mild orange nose. Clear copper, medium yellow head, good lace. Creamsicle, honey highlights, orange peel on the back end, but not very bitter. Medium body, easy carbonation, alcohol not insistent. Not bad for a fruit beer.
Tried
on 09 Oct 2016
at 20:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from the Woodland CostCo. Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of pumpkin cookies with a few chocolate chips tossed in. Med body or better. Flavor is smooth dark chocolatey malt with lots of pies spice. This really blends a lot of things together in a smooth, well integrated fashion. The "pumpkin" beer of the year perhaps. Finishes less than dry, spicy, but not really bitter.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2016
at 20:04
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent seasonal release. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big pumpkin, gingerbread, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, graham cracker, toasted oats, and chocolate; with lighter notes of coffee, cocoa, molasses, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, pumpkin/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big pumpkin, gingerbread, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, graham cracker, toasted oats, and chocolate; with lighter notes of coffee, cocoa, molasses, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/pine hop and roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of pumpkin, gingerbread, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, graham cracker, toasted oats, chocolate, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance dark/roast/bready malt, pumpkin/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy, fairly silky, and lightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.9%. Overall this is an excellent pumpkin stout. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance dark/roast/bready malt, pumpkin/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2016
at 21:30
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Very yeasty nose, apple underneath. Cloudy amber, medium head, good lace. Strawberry, honey, hay. Medium body, frothy, easy carbonation. No ginger presence, but I made the mistake of having a very gingery beer right before this.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2016
at 09:40
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Poured into a Michelob Celebrate! tulip. :) Pours coppery gold with a slight white head. Aroma of malt and some rather unusual hops. Med body. Flavor is malty, but there are some floral, fruit and herb aspects to help with that. There’s a tree bark/twig aspect. It tries to be astringent, but not quite dry enough for that. This isn’t super today, but it’s nice to see the past brought back, and this would have been dynamite 30 years ago. I’m liking it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Sep 2016
at 20:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz 750ml looking bomber pours with a crystal clear deep copper body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up inviting orange and orange hard candy notes as well as more nice orange as you go deeper into the pull. The taste is sweet with malts and orange notes. It gets more orange candy like to midway with what seems like a sliver of cherry too. Lots of orange going on here with some thick sweetness and only mild citrus bitterness for balance. Nice sipper.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Aug 2016
at 11:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour from Friar Tuck. Appearance is opaque black with small dark brown at edges of glass, 2 finger-width light brown head with decent retention, fair lacing. Aroma is pumpkin spices along with chocolate and roasted malts. Taste is roasted malt with dark fruit, pumpkin spices, chocolate. Palate is medium bodied with creamy texture, soft-to-average carbonation, finish like the taste. Overall, a really nice pumpkin beer and a pretty good oatmeal stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2016
at 21:11
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Caramel malt and pine/grapefruit peel aroma. Dark amber with small head. Moderately sweet caramel malt and moderately bitter grapefruit peel flavor. Good body. Okay - might have been something special when there were only 5 IPAs available.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2016
at 14:37
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle: Hazy, brown-amber with a small, creamy, tan head. Resiny ,slightly spoiled fruit aroma. Taste is dry, resin, old orange-peel, biscuit. Very dull and stale feeling.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2016
at 18:34
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle into a Corsendonk tulip glass on 5th June 2016 while on holiday in California. Dark orange with a copper hue, the head an off-white affair. Hop forward in both the nose and taste, piney with a slight citrus leaning. OK, but no world beater.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jun 2016
at 16:39