C. Brown's Pumpkin Ale
Ham's Restaurant & Brewhouse
- From:
- Ham's Restaurant & Brewhouse
- North Carolina, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.86 | pDev: 1.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 06, 2008
- Added:
- Nov 01, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by CAP1868 from Tennessee
4.77/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.77/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Served on tap at Ham's... I have to agree with you Chuck this pumpkin ale is probably the best I've ever had.
A-Dark amber color with a big head a plenty of lacing
S-Smelled of pumpkin pie just what you'd want in good pumpkin ale, also hints of cinnamon and nutmeg maybe
T-Amazing just like pumpkin pie, just what it smelled like...amazing
M- Full bodied and complicated but all over pumpkin, not too sweet not too bitter
D-Excellent I had way too many but they were too damn good
Like chuck said the best damn beer most of you will never have a chance to drink.
Nov 06, 2008A-Dark amber color with a big head a plenty of lacing
S-Smelled of pumpkin pie just what you'd want in good pumpkin ale, also hints of cinnamon and nutmeg maybe
T-Amazing just like pumpkin pie, just what it smelled like...amazing
M- Full bodied and complicated but all over pumpkin, not too sweet not too bitter
D-Excellent I had way too many but they were too damn good
Like chuck said the best damn beer most of you will never have a chance to drink.
Reviewed by cvstrickland from North Carolina
4.94/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
4.94/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
A growler poured into a large tulip glass yields a murky burnt-crimson-orange body with two fingers of extremely fine white foam atop. The head recedes to a sticky sheet and leaves patchy wisps of lacing on the glass.
The smell is rich with loads of fresh-baked pumpkin pie. Wonderful, warm, and toasty, with lots of dark browned butter-and-flour crust, sweet pumpkin, and aromatic allspice and ginger. Never let it be said that I am not a sucker for good pumpkin pie or good beer, because I am, and since this beer in front of me smells like a really good punkin pie for sure, count me in as highly interested! Easily the most pie-like of all the representations of this style I've enjoyed in my beer career thus far! YUM!
The taste has a lot to live up to after the spot-on nose, but wow! C Brown's is up to the task! A great balance of flavors is the hallmark of the brew. Fruity, rich, sweet roasted pumpkin dusted with brown sugar allows lots of aromatic fresh grated nutmeg and dusty, spicy cinnamon to take center stage mid-swig, guiding the mostly sweet drink into an earthy-dry, spicy finish. Succulent. Edible. Lip-smacking, ass-kicking, unbelievably astoundingly delicious pumpkin ale. Understand, folks, that I'm damned stingy with the "Fives", and here we are at the halfway point in the scoring, and I've already dished out two! Holy cats. What a great punkin beer!
I'm happy to report that the wonderfulness persists throughout the roundup on this truly excellent drink. The beer is silky and medium-fullish in body and is as damned near to the word "Quaffable" in definition as I can get without tripping over lots more gushing, genuflecting, worship-type adjectives and adverbs.
Drinkability, ha! Off the charts... if I can ever get back to the actual drinking of this pumpkin magnificence and spending less time at the typing about and hyping thereof.
As I'm filling in the scoring blocks, I realize that I'm casting my whole lot, staking my dubious LNBA, NBS, and BA reputation, hell, perhaps even calling into question my sanity, by declaring this, a local yokel punkin brew you'll never drink, the highest-scored beer I've reviewed on BA. I don't care. It's not that I love Ham's (I don't), or am some pumpkin beer freak (I usually don't like them much at all), but folks, this beer is what pumpkin ale ought to be. How in the Hell Ham's brewmaster T.L., down here in not-New England, came up with this beer must be some sort of a Southern Halloween miracle. It's pure-T kickass.
Nov 01, 2008The smell is rich with loads of fresh-baked pumpkin pie. Wonderful, warm, and toasty, with lots of dark browned butter-and-flour crust, sweet pumpkin, and aromatic allspice and ginger. Never let it be said that I am not a sucker for good pumpkin pie or good beer, because I am, and since this beer in front of me smells like a really good punkin pie for sure, count me in as highly interested! Easily the most pie-like of all the representations of this style I've enjoyed in my beer career thus far! YUM!
The taste has a lot to live up to after the spot-on nose, but wow! C Brown's is up to the task! A great balance of flavors is the hallmark of the brew. Fruity, rich, sweet roasted pumpkin dusted with brown sugar allows lots of aromatic fresh grated nutmeg and dusty, spicy cinnamon to take center stage mid-swig, guiding the mostly sweet drink into an earthy-dry, spicy finish. Succulent. Edible. Lip-smacking, ass-kicking, unbelievably astoundingly delicious pumpkin ale. Understand, folks, that I'm damned stingy with the "Fives", and here we are at the halfway point in the scoring, and I've already dished out two! Holy cats. What a great punkin beer!
I'm happy to report that the wonderfulness persists throughout the roundup on this truly excellent drink. The beer is silky and medium-fullish in body and is as damned near to the word "Quaffable" in definition as I can get without tripping over lots more gushing, genuflecting, worship-type adjectives and adverbs.
Drinkability, ha! Off the charts... if I can ever get back to the actual drinking of this pumpkin magnificence and spending less time at the typing about and hyping thereof.
As I'm filling in the scoring blocks, I realize that I'm casting my whole lot, staking my dubious LNBA, NBS, and BA reputation, hell, perhaps even calling into question my sanity, by declaring this, a local yokel punkin brew you'll never drink, the highest-scored beer I've reviewed on BA. I don't care. It's not that I love Ham's (I don't), or am some pumpkin beer freak (I usually don't like them much at all), but folks, this beer is what pumpkin ale ought to be. How in the Hell Ham's brewmaster T.L., down here in not-New England, came up with this beer must be some sort of a Southern Halloween miracle. It's pure-T kickass.
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