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Pumpkin Ale
Long Trail Brewing Co.
- From:
- Long Trail Brewing Co.
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 77
- Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 14.79%
- Reviews:
- 69
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 27, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 02, 2012
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 88
Long Trail is excited to launch Long Trail Pumpkin Ale, a slightly sweet seasonal treat artfully brewed with pumpkins, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. The perfect drink for a fall day, this exceptionally balanced beer has an aroma very reminiscent of pumpkin pie.
22 IBU
22 IBU
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
3.85/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a semi-murky dark orange close to brown color with a slight transparency about it. Just a sheet of a little white foamy head slid off at a moderate pace to leave some sly running lace.
The aroma had some ginger, allspice, a whiff of nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin extract and a little bit of pie crust.
The flavor arranged fairly nice between the previously mentioned spices to the sweetness of the pumpkin extract. Pie crust smoothness came back for a light balance. Mild aftertaste of the pumpkin extract and the spices, not so much the pie crust.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fairly nice sessionability about it. Carbonation wasn't distracting, seemed nice and even. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, pretty nice pumpkin ale that I could come back to.
Jul 09, 2017The aroma had some ginger, allspice, a whiff of nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, pumpkin extract and a little bit of pie crust.
The flavor arranged fairly nice between the previously mentioned spices to the sweetness of the pumpkin extract. Pie crust smoothness came back for a light balance. Mild aftertaste of the pumpkin extract and the spices, not so much the pie crust.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fairly nice sessionability about it. Carbonation wasn't distracting, seemed nice and even. ABV felt as projected.
Overall, pretty nice pumpkin ale that I could come back to.
Reviewed by Irishman_Scott from Pennsylvania
5/5 rDev +47.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +47.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. The head was golden and beer itself orangish brown. Pretty decent appearance. You can smell the pumpkin and spice. Very good flavor. Definitely noting the pumpkin, spices, maybe cinnamon, and lower mid range on the hops. Moderate carbonation. Flavorful at the first of each sip, and dry at the end. Very common with the other pumpkin beers, but still unique enough that it has character of its own. Pretty much all the pumpkin stuff I've come across, I've liked. This one doesn't disappoint.
Feb 03, 2017Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
2.96/5 rDev -12.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
2.96/5 rDev -12.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
"3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
samsmith33 (745) - - JAN 17, 2015
**
01/17/2015
Sweet flavor; fruit and pumpkin; thin feel. aroma has nutmeg
**
2014 Pumpkin Double Blind Tasting:
1-Sam Adams Fat Jack. 2-Hoppin’ Frog. 3-Fegleys Devious. 4-Weyerbacher. 5-Southern Tier Pumking. 6-Terrapin Pumpkinfest. 7-Long Trail. 8-Riverhorse. 9-Blue Moon. 10-UFO Pumpkin (harpoon). 11-Sam Adams Pumpkin. 12-Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin. 13-Dogfishhead (shocker) 14-Ichabod."
Apr 10, 2016samsmith33 (745) - - JAN 17, 2015
**
01/17/2015
Sweet flavor; fruit and pumpkin; thin feel. aroma has nutmeg
**
2014 Pumpkin Double Blind Tasting:
1-Sam Adams Fat Jack. 2-Hoppin’ Frog. 3-Fegleys Devious. 4-Weyerbacher. 5-Southern Tier Pumking. 6-Terrapin Pumpkinfest. 7-Long Trail. 8-Riverhorse. 9-Blue Moon. 10-UFO Pumpkin (harpoon). 11-Sam Adams Pumpkin. 12-Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin. 13-Dogfishhead (shocker) 14-Ichabod."
Reviewed by seedyone from New York
3.65/5 rDev +8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
On tap at Rattle n Hum, NYC. As pumpkin ales and beers go, this one comes off a bit weak. Looks are OK but aroma, texture and taste come up short. Better luck.
Dec 08, 2015Reviewed by secondtooth from Indiana
3.49/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: Pours a hazy copper, with an average head of bone white froth. Thin, tree-line lace.
Aroma: Pumpkin and spice, very nice. I get some allspice, cinnamon, and of course pumpkin pie. “As advertised”, I’d say!
Taste: Definitely pumpkin pie here, with a decent amount of dryness and some bitterness at the finish. A satisfying and solid pumpkin ale — not a favorite but certainly not bad at all.
Dec 04, 2015Aroma: Pumpkin and spice, very nice. I get some allspice, cinnamon, and of course pumpkin pie. “As advertised”, I’d say!
Taste: Definitely pumpkin pie here, with a decent amount of dryness and some bitterness at the finish. A satisfying and solid pumpkin ale — not a favorite but certainly not bad at all.
Reviewed by twosheds from Massachusetts
3.76/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.76/5 rDev +11.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Orange amber in color
Smells of pumpkin pie spice with cloves seeming to the most dominant aroma. There is some sweet malt flavor coming through.
Surprisingly well balanced compared to the smell. The pumpkin flavors mesh well with the malt with nothing overpowering anything. It's almost a little bland, but is very drinkable and more flavors may become more apparent as I have more of it.
The mouthfeel is light and dry.
This is a good pumpkin ale to have more than one of. I like pumpkin beer on occasion, but I don't usually want to drink a whole six pack of it because the pie spices just get to be too much.
Nov 22, 2015Smells of pumpkin pie spice with cloves seeming to the most dominant aroma. There is some sweet malt flavor coming through.
Surprisingly well balanced compared to the smell. The pumpkin flavors mesh well with the malt with nothing overpowering anything. It's almost a little bland, but is very drinkable and more flavors may become more apparent as I have more of it.
The mouthfeel is light and dry.
This is a good pumpkin ale to have more than one of. I like pumpkin beer on occasion, but I don't usually want to drink a whole six pack of it because the pie spices just get to be too much.
Pumpkin Ale from Long Trail Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
77 out of
100 with
427 ratings
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