Pumpkin Ale
Smuttynose Brewing Company

Above average with a pleasant combination of cinnamon and nutmeg

 

Look – Copper color with a hint of orange. Light foam.

Aroma – Very light pumpkin. Pumpkin light. Maybe. Very little scent. Perhaps that’s because it’s natural.

Taste – The taste is carbonated with a light pumpkin feel. Like the nose there is no spices to be found. Honestly, no pumpkin.

Mouhfeel – Light-bodied with a good amount of carbonation. It is easy to gulp this one down, but that’s due to it not being rich or flavorful.

Overall – Light pumpkin beer on the nose and a whole lotta nothin’ on the taste. Not bad tasting, but that doesn’t mean it is good.

 

From a pint can into a draught glass. Pour had a floofy head of light beige foam with a clear, warm golden amber colored body with mild effervescence. Scent is what one expects from a pumpkin ale -- plenty of pumpkin and a nice dash of spice (nutmeg and clove are most evident, at times cinnamon too). Taste has a surprising degree of bitterness to it, but that lines up well with the "recipe back from the colonial time" vibes. Feel is on the medium side with a bit of a watery quality and a pleasantly bitter pumpkin aftertaste. Overall an enjoyable fall beer that avoids trying to be a pumpkin pie in a glass.

 

 

Love our neighbors to the north of Boston. Smutty does an excellent job of walking that line between beer and pumpkin spiced latte. A lot of pumpkin beers can taste artificial and overwhelming, but this is subtle. Subtle to the nose when you lift and subtle in taste. The pumpkin is accompanying this delicious beer by not stealing the show and provides supporting flavor. A beautiful beer in presentation too. Nice dark copper tint with a frothy foamy head. A nice Fall warmer.

 

 

Look – Copper color with a slightly hazy body and two fingers of white head

Aroma – Subtle aroma of pumpkin……and that’s about it. No spice presence to be found. Smells pretty neutral.

Taste – The taste is more flowers and potpourri than anything else. The pumpkin was subtle on the nose and is nearly non-existent here. Like the nose there is no spices to be found. The back end finishes with almost a generic macro lager taste. There’s nothing offensive here, but also not much to write about.

Mouhfeel – Light-bodied with a good amount of carbonation. It is easy to gulp this one down, but that’s due to it not being rich or flavorful.

Overall – Simply being inoffensive does not a good beer make. Mild pumpkin beer on the nose and a whole lotta nothin’ on the taste. Not bad tasting, but that doesn’t mean it is good.

Nice copper color with little to no head. Definite nose of pumpkin there which you can't say too often about pumpkin ale which is normally overwhelmingly spice forward. The slip here is how boring the palate is. It's too carbonated and tastes faintly of metal. The pumpkin and the spice are in the background but the dominance is the can. Finishes equally poorly.

 

16 oz can.

Pours a foggy amber color with 2 fingers of creamy off-white head. Good retention. Leaves a nearly perfect ring of lacing around the glass.

Very mild nose, with light aromas of pumpkin and squash, cinnamon and sweet citrus.

The flavor has quite a bit of clove, with some tangerines and squash. Doughy malt hiding in the back. Nutmeg and light cinnamon on the finish.

The feel is medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Smooth. Nicely drinkable.

Overall, this is a solid pumpkin ale. Definitely not my favorite style of beer, but this one actually tastes like pumpkin, instead of beer with a ton of pumpkin pie spice.

Pleasant, easy drinking with tasty but not overwhelming pumpkin flavor.

Pours a beautiful cloudy amber with a two finger head. Pumpkin on the nose but subtle. Taste is a nice balance of pumpkin and clove/spice. But overall not very flavorful. Everything is there but a little watered down. Finish is easy.

A strong pour is needed to reach a finger of creamy egg-shell white foam with long retention and spots of lacing.
Chill haze clears to a lightly hazy orange straw color, I can read medium sized print through it.

Mild smell of bready malt, dough and cooked pumpkin, mild pumpkin pie spice

Bigger flavors in the taste, neutral on sweetness with low initial bitterness that creeps up to average. The spice hides the alcohol, toasted malt flavor rises above the bready and doughy smell. The finish is fast with the spice lingering softly.

Medium-light body with lasting carbonation, smooth and so well balanced, nothing stands out of the blend of spice, pumpkin and malt. I cannot drink this Beer without wondering why so many folks avoid this style.

A 12-oz. can was poured into a 14-oz. "Krug". Canned on 7/10/20.