Pumpkin Lambicus
Brouwerij Timmermans-John Martin N.V.

Pumpkin LambicusPumpkin Lambicus
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From:
Brouwerij Timmermans-John Martin N.V.
 
Belgium
Style:
Pumpkin Beer
ABV:
4%
Score:
83
Avg:
3.66 | pDev: 13.66%
Reviews:
86
Ratings:
357
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 29, 2022
Added:
Oct 05, 2012
Wants:
  5
Gots:
  28
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

2.98/5  rDev -18.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Here's another selection from the Thanksgiving 2021 beer week selection. I sat on this bottle a few years, knowing I was going to break it open on a Thanksgiving where I could have maximum exposure with it. Unfortunately, the beer just wasn't that good.

Pours an amber color with pretty good clarity. If only the rest of the beer was this good. But it fails to maintain much of a head, just a 1/8" like smattering after a very short amount of time after the pour. The aroma was very feint, barely a pumpkin cracker noticeable, not much in terms of wood or sourness perceptible here. Its rather barren in terms of aroma frankly.

The taste has one wondering if this is a lambic? You know, I see it is classified as a pumpkin beer, which might be the more fitting of the two. Pretty light body, barely has any sourness to it (1.5/10 pt lambic sour scale), light rules the day description wise, light pumpkin, light carbonation, light sourness. This is just as much like a mild pumpkin ale as it is a lambic.

So, this kind of reminds me of Lindeman's garbage tier lambics even if not as sweet. Not recommended.
Mar 29, 2022
 
Rated: 3.78 by Ristaccia from Nebraska

May 25, 2021
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Reviewed by Bluecrow from New York

3.79/5  rDev +3.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
The cola-colored tap pour has a wisp of foam that dissipates immediately.
The aroma is faint with burnt sugar and cinnamon.
The flavor is light. The sugar and spice (cinnamon, nutmeg?) are accompanied by woody/vegetal malt notes and is slightly tart.
The body/mouthfeel is soda-like.
-not like other lambics I’ve had,
Oct 25, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by RiceOwls27 from Texas

Jul 22, 2020
 
Rated: 3.75 by brittanylicious from Indiana

Aug 26, 2019
 
Rated: 3.75 by heysuz from Indiana

Aug 26, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by jvgoor3786 from Arkansas

Nov 22, 2018
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Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania

3.2/5  rDev -12.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a brown 750ml bottle. Has a bronze/orange color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of pumpkin, light spices. Taste is pumpkin, some cinnamon, a bit sour. Feels medium/light bodied in the mouth and overall isn't bad, but I wouldn't have a need to drink it again.
Feb 28, 2018
 
Rated: 2.5 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Dec 29, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by kylehay2004 from Illinois

Oct 09, 2017
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

4/5  rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Treated as a lambic, this was poured into a pokal. The appearance was a soft burnt orange (yes, pumpkin color) with a quickly dieing head. No lacing. The aroma starts with a sweet pumpkin fleshiness flowing into subtle sour citrus rind-like character. What’s nice about this is that the sweetness seems quite balanced. Warming slight cinnamon smells nice. Slight acceptable apple juice after a little bit of further warming. The flavor leans sweet first and then brings in the sour pretty nicely. It’s pumpkin fleshy, like real pumpkin, there’s nothing remotely fake about this at all. And the sour that comes in is real nice. Barely any aftertaste (but what there is seems a blend of apple juice to pumpkin flesh), escaping mostly quick finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a fantastic sesssionability about it. Low carbonation. No stickiness. Overall, lambic - check, subsiding sour - check, pumpkin fleshy sweetness - check. Now if this doesn’t make for a nice early Autumn’s evening, nothing will.
Aug 03, 2017
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Reviewed by Merican_Ride from Pennsylvania

4.25/5  rDev +16.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
A: Great orange color with amber hue coming through. Good lacing as the one-finger head quickly fades.
S: A nice harmony of pumpkin and faint acetic overtones. Some yeast coming through as well.
T: Not overly sour. Good integration of pumpkin without getting too aggressive on the pumpkin spice. The sour notes are just enough and marry nicely with the yeast characteristics coming through. A nice lingering sour malt taste as the beer follows through.
M: Light-bodied with just a touch of frothiness.
O: True to style. Bonus points for integrating pumpkin into this style and making it not only bearable but good. A great beer and unique in its being. I would definitely drink this again.
Feb 06, 2017
 
Rated: 3.68 by Waveoff from Pennsylvania

Feb 02, 2017
 
Rated: 3.62 by kkmiller76 from New Jersey

Oct 16, 2016
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Reviewed by puboflyons from New Hampshire

3.69/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
From the corked, caged 750 ml. bottle dated 09/07/15. Sampled on October 8, 2016

The pour is a decent looking orange-amber color with a modest, short-lived cream colored head. But it laces as it fades.

The aroma captures the sour overripe fruit characteristics of a Lambic as well as a pumpkin spice pumpkin ale. Big on the cinnamon.

Medium body.

The pumpkin spices and cinnamon offset any tart or sour character I might have otherwise picked up in the flavor but both characters are there. Quite interesting.
Oct 08, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Burt from Rhode Island

Oct 07, 2016
 
Rated: 3.71 by thoglund from New York

Sep 17, 2016
 
Rated: 3.79 by RBorsato from Virginia

Jun 03, 2016
 
Rated: 3.63 by StArnoldFan from Texas

Apr 11, 2016
 
Rated: 3.63 by Jason_cs from Florida

Dec 26, 2015
Pumpkin Lambicus from Brouwerij Timmermans-John Martin N.V.
Beer rating: 83 out of 100 with 357 ratings