If you like strong pumpkin pie taste that is within reason, this 12-ounce can is the trick that will provide the treat. Highlights: Strong on pumpkin pie, spices. Wonderful pumpkin pie spices intertwined in our amber ale create a rich pumpkin seasonal. Label Artwork: Maniacal-looking pumpkin with its top coming off, with a lit wick protruding from top.īest Line on Can: Real pumpkin lends a sweetness and a true pumpkin flavor not found in many pumpkin ales. Worth Trying? If you don’t like pumpkin beers, but want to say you had one. The more you drink it, the less spices there appear to be. I get a lot of lager and faint hints of pumpkin and spices. Highlights: Says it’s a lager with pumpkin and spice added. Has beer stein in left hand and tuba (seriously) in right.
Label Artwork: Weird dude with pumpkin for head. Worth Trying? Only if you feel the need to have said you tried the beer that claims to be the original pumpkin. It looks like a pumpkin beer, but that’s where the similarities end. Sorry, this doesn’t really have any taste. Says it was brewed with real pumpkins and natural spice flavor. Highlights: It may have been the first, but nearly every pumpkin beer - good or bad - has passed it. Always has been one of my favorite pumpkins.
Stronger taste than most as you’d expect with uptick in ABV. Highlights: This is for those who like their pumpkin beers kicked up a notch. Level of Spice: Very nice, even if it’s brewed with pumpkin puree Label Artwork: Just the Grinch-like pumpkin at the top of the label Almost seems as if you’re not drinking anything. There is a taste vacuum after initial spice blast. Initial hit of spices fades quickly but hangs faintly in the background. Highlights: Aroma is heavy on seasonal spices. Label Artwork: Laughing, nearly toothless pumpkinīest Line on Bottle or Can: Dark and yummy Worth Trying? If you can’t find anything else Hints of roasted malts, even a bit of coffee. Highlights: Brewed with pumpkin and natural flavor added, this is a confusing mash-up of tastes. Label Artwork: Not sure, but probably skeletal bonesĬolor: Semi-dense dark, but pours with a lot of headīest Line on Bottle or Can: Pressed against a shimmering ‘80s club scene, Round Guys Dead Souls Pumpkin Porter delivers a brilliant tasty richness paired against skillfully layered pumpkin flavor. It’s like taking a bad idea and making it worse. Huge aroma of pumpkin pie and roasted malts. Highlights: Full-bodied beer is best characterized as Pumking done as an Imperial Stout. Level of Spice: Over the top, then drenched in roasted malt tasteīest Line on Bottle or Can: Warlock is brewed to enchant your palate on its own and also to counterpoint our Imperial Ale Pumking. Label Artwork: Evil pumpkin with warlock’s hat Will It Be in My 12 Pack? Highly unlikely It’s probably the most popular pumpkin beer out there. On the good side, it has the best label in terms of providing information. Creosote from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. Even part of a bottle may leave you feeling like Mr. Not a good idea to drink the 22 ounce bottle yourself. Highlights: Strong overpowering smell and taste of pumpkin pie, which I find a turn-off.
Level of Spice: Somewhat strong, very sweetīest line from the label: Fragrant ale evokes the rich, deep flavors of spiced pumpkin cake rolled around a sweet, creamy filling.
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Label artwork: Pumpkin patch in front of a barn All spices are evident in the taste and none overwhelms. Highlights: True to the pumpkin beer formula of using real pumpkin, cinnamon and nutmeg. Label artwork: Headless horseman carrying a pumpkin When I’m done, 37 beers will have been sampled, but only the best will wind up in my 12 pack. What follows is a quick review of those beers.
Our 31 Days of Pumpkin Beer wraps up Friday with DuClaw’s 31. Tis the season - for anything pumpkin, be it bread, lattes, pies, spices, or in this case, beer.įor the month of October on the Putts & Pints blog on, I have been reviewing one pumpkin beer a day.
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