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Pumpkan
Wachusett Brewing Company
- From:
- Wachusett Brewing Company
- Massachusetts, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.42 | pDev: 14.33%
- Reviews:
- 21
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 01, 2022
- Added:
- Aug 20, 2012
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 17
New England’s first pumpkin in a can. A blend of spicy malts, spices, & Blonde Belgian Candi sugar creates a deep orange color with subtle spice flavor.
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Ratings by Goblinmunkey7:
Reviewed by Goblinmunkey7 from Massachusetts
3.38/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.38/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Appearance: Light burnt orange. Head is white, bubbly, thin, with little retention. Perfectly clear. No lacing. Moderate carbonation.
Smell: Mild roasted malts. Some underlying pumpkin. Spices jump. Big on the allspice. Nutmeg, cinnamon, a touch of vanilla. Sweet caramel malts. Slightly bready. Hits that solid ratio between malts, spice, and pumpkin that pushes homemade pumpkin pie. As it warms the spices begin to dominate. Malts fade a touch. Slightly grassy.
Taste: Clean, roasted, slightly bready and sweet malt up front. Quickly gets crushed by a punch of nutmeg and allspice. Faint cinnamon spiciness in the back. Malts come across a little thin and watery. Mild grassy finish. Some toasted notes. Pumpkin is buried, and I mean buried, but it helps round things out a bit. Slight spiciness from the hops as well.
Mouthfeel: A little lighter than I like in my pumpkin beers. Just a shade under medium body. Prickly and a touch dry.
Overall: Decent. Bonus points for a can.
It's what I expected from Wachusett. It's middle-of-the-road. Easy drinking and hits the more aggressive spice profile people would expect from the style. Loses a little for me.
Aug 29, 2012Smell: Mild roasted malts. Some underlying pumpkin. Spices jump. Big on the allspice. Nutmeg, cinnamon, a touch of vanilla. Sweet caramel malts. Slightly bready. Hits that solid ratio between malts, spice, and pumpkin that pushes homemade pumpkin pie. As it warms the spices begin to dominate. Malts fade a touch. Slightly grassy.
Taste: Clean, roasted, slightly bready and sweet malt up front. Quickly gets crushed by a punch of nutmeg and allspice. Faint cinnamon spiciness in the back. Malts come across a little thin and watery. Mild grassy finish. Some toasted notes. Pumpkin is buried, and I mean buried, but it helps round things out a bit. Slight spiciness from the hops as well.
Mouthfeel: A little lighter than I like in my pumpkin beers. Just a shade under medium body. Prickly and a touch dry.
Overall: Decent. Bonus points for a can.
It's what I expected from Wachusett. It's middle-of-the-road. Easy drinking and hits the more aggressive spice profile people would expect from the style. Loses a little for me.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by TheManiacalOne from Rhode Island
3.24/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.24/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a 12oz can into a US tumbler pint glass.
A: The beer is a deep gold color, with a large off-white head that fades slowly and leaves a thick lace on the glass.
S: The aroma contains pumpkin, caramelized malts, some spice and a very faint touch of hops.
T: The taste starts out bready with a hearty but not too heavy malt character. Then some mildly sweet flavors of pumpkin, spices and caramel come in. The hops presence I mild and there isn’t much balance. The after-taste is slightly bready.
M: Crisp but not very smooth, medium body, medium carbonation, finish is slightly sticky.
O: A little tasty, goes down ok, not too filling, mild kick, decent representation of style, this is not one of the better beers I’ve had in the style.
Nov 27, 2014A: The beer is a deep gold color, with a large off-white head that fades slowly and leaves a thick lace on the glass.
S: The aroma contains pumpkin, caramelized malts, some spice and a very faint touch of hops.
T: The taste starts out bready with a hearty but not too heavy malt character. Then some mildly sweet flavors of pumpkin, spices and caramel come in. The hops presence I mild and there isn’t much balance. The after-taste is slightly bready.
M: Crisp but not very smooth, medium body, medium carbonation, finish is slightly sticky.
O: A little tasty, goes down ok, not too filling, mild kick, decent representation of style, this is not one of the better beers I’ve had in the style.
Reviewed by WhiteHillsStore from Connecticut
3.28/5 rDev -4.1%
3.28/5 rDev -4.1%
A very nice, approachable pumpkin ale. Pours a bright orange with an off white head. The smell is full of spice such as cinnamon and clove. The taste has a bit of pumpkin in the beginning and then and then a lot of spice. The flavor was refreshing and a little light, but it made for a very drinkable pumpkin ale that I can see drinking more than a few.
Oct 28, 2014
Pumpkan from Wachusett Brewing Company
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
94 ratings
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