Stallhagen Pumpkin Ale
Stallhagen Ab
- From:
- Stallhagen Ab
- Aland
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.81 | pDev: 3.56%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 03, 2015
- Added:
- Jun 16, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.71/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.71/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
BOTTLE: 33cl. Green glass (ugh...). Branded black pry-off crown cap. Nice green label art.
Expectations are average. Served cold into a pilsner glass in Helsinki, Finland, where it was purchased at an Alko. Reviewed live as a pumpkin ale per the label.
6.0% ABV.
HEAD: Half-inch wide. Off-white colour. The creaminess and frothiness are merely fair, leaving much to be desired. Retention is below average - ~1 minute. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Generic copper of average vibrance. No yeast particulate or hop sediment is visible.
Appears adequately carbonated. Far from unique or special.
AROMA: Pumpkin gourd, pale malts, cinnamon, muted clove, hints of vanilla, allspice, and nutmeg. The pumpkin unfortunately is quite light and shallow, lacking the depth and expressiveness of pumpkin observed in the best pumpkin ales. Why brew a pumpkin ale if you're not going to commit to the pumpkin?
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE: The vanilla (what is that doing there?) eclipses the pumpkin. But the pumpkin is insufficient anyway, lacking depth and expressiveness. The fringe spice notes do little to help, and I barely find them; the promises of the aroma go unfulfilled. There's a hint of clove, I guess, but the nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon are so reticent they're imperceptible.
Imbalanced and generic in taste, with a simple shallow pale malt backbone. Where's the rich caramel? Where're the spices? Hell, the pumpkin? Lacks any brown sugar presence.
I find no overt hop notes or yeast. It's a clean and shallow flavour profile, with nothing to offer the discerning drinker. Too sweet to boot.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, overcarbonated, and of apt thickness and heft. Complements the taste in a general way, but its sleek almost silky smoothness emphasizes the vanilla - the very ingredient that's to blame for ruining the beer by blocking the pumpkin from emerging.
OVERALL: Drinkable, sure, but it's a bit of a mess, and the fundamentals aren't there...where's the pumpkin presence? It's not bad for a Finnish stab at a pumpkin ale, but if you're after authenticity or a beer that's true-to-style, you're looking in the wrong place. The vanilla's masking of the pumpkin is a severe issue here, and that alone will keep even casual drinkers from enjoying it.
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Jun 16, 2015Expectations are average. Served cold into a pilsner glass in Helsinki, Finland, where it was purchased at an Alko. Reviewed live as a pumpkin ale per the label.
6.0% ABV.
HEAD: Half-inch wide. Off-white colour. The creaminess and frothiness are merely fair, leaving much to be desired. Retention is below average - ~1 minute. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Generic copper of average vibrance. No yeast particulate or hop sediment is visible.
Appears adequately carbonated. Far from unique or special.
AROMA: Pumpkin gourd, pale malts, cinnamon, muted clove, hints of vanilla, allspice, and nutmeg. The pumpkin unfortunately is quite light and shallow, lacking the depth and expressiveness of pumpkin observed in the best pumpkin ales. Why brew a pumpkin ale if you're not going to commit to the pumpkin?
Aromatic intensity is average.
TASTE: The vanilla (what is that doing there?) eclipses the pumpkin. But the pumpkin is insufficient anyway, lacking depth and expressiveness. The fringe spice notes do little to help, and I barely find them; the promises of the aroma go unfulfilled. There's a hint of clove, I guess, but the nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon are so reticent they're imperceptible.
Imbalanced and generic in taste, with a simple shallow pale malt backbone. Where's the rich caramel? Where're the spices? Hell, the pumpkin? Lacks any brown sugar presence.
I find no overt hop notes or yeast. It's a clean and shallow flavour profile, with nothing to offer the discerning drinker. Too sweet to boot.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, medium-bodied, overcarbonated, and of apt thickness and heft. Complements the taste in a general way, but its sleek almost silky smoothness emphasizes the vanilla - the very ingredient that's to blame for ruining the beer by blocking the pumpkin from emerging.
OVERALL: Drinkable, sure, but it's a bit of a mess, and the fundamentals aren't there...where's the pumpkin presence? It's not bad for a Finnish stab at a pumpkin ale, but if you're after authenticity or a beer that's true-to-style, you're looking in the wrong place. The vanilla's masking of the pumpkin is a severe issue here, and that alone will keep even casual drinkers from enjoying it.
C-
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