Red Racer Snickerdoodle Pumpkin Ale
Central City Brewers + Distillers

 

650ml bottle - I've never heard of the titular cookie, but after a quick check, it appears to be what Americans call a sugar cookie. Anyways.

This beer pours a clear, dark bronzed amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some approaching iceberg floe profile lace around the glass as it lazily evaporates.

It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, some ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon spice, a faint pumpkin fleshiness, and very subtle earthy, musty, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, brown sugar syrup, more ginger and metallic cinnamon spiciness, still fairly weak vegetal pumpkin notes, and some plain earthy, floral, and herbal hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a solid medium weight, and quite smooth, with a wee airy creaminess seeping in once things warm up a tad out of the ol' basement frigo. It finishes off-dry, the sugary malt and mixed spices showing the most lingering chutzpah.

Overall - well, they have certainly achieved what they set out to do here, I have to say. Yup, the flavours are pretty much a cinnamon sugar cookie in liquid format, and a fine one at that. Pretty good, especially if this is your type of thing.

 

 

 

Central City 'RR Snickerdoodle' @ 5.0% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $5.80
A-pour is gold from the bottle to an amber in the glass with a small beige/off-white head leaving a streaky lace along the pint
S-spiced pumpkin cookie
T-pumpkin spice ale , taste like a cookie
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-such a sweet pumpkin spice ale , one & done
prost LampertLand

 

First pumpkin beer of the season.

A: Orange-y amber, not a ton of head.
S: Ginger and other pumpkin pie spices. The ginger is by far the strongest. I was expecting more cinnamon given the name, but it's still pretty appealing.
T: Spicy and sweet. Mild lingering bitterness.
F: Crisp carbonation