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Pumpkick
New Belgium Brewing Company
- From:
- New Belgium Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.46 | pDev: 14.45%
- Reviews:
- 229
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 07, 2023
- Added:
- Jul 30, 2013
- Wants:
- 29
- Gots:
- 362
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Ratings by Peyton5410:
Rated by Peyton5410 from New Jersey
3.3/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Sep 08, 2016
3.3/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Sep 08, 2016
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.25/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Essence of gingerbread, amber with very thick creamy head. Else it’s not as rich as some of the other fall pumpkin beers I’ve tried recently. Not bad, but not great.
Jun 07, 2023Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
2.97/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.97/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Trying to not write too scathing of a review. You see, there was Kick, and that was a good beer, the predecessor to this. Then they gave us this instead, and it is nowhere near as good.
Pours a burnt orange not unlike a pumpkin itself but darker. 1/3" off white head. Aroma of pumpkin and a little bit of nutmeg, but I miss the notes of wood and cranberry tartness alongside the old version.
Taste, aw shit, this is just a bland pumpkin ale. No sourness, no tartness, no oak influence, little cranberry contribution, no feeling of fall leaves in the background. Carbonation is higher than I would like for something like this. Chill it out man. What a disappointment. You can still pull some cranberry for it, but it really needs the wood and bugs to make it work, instead you just get two kinds of fruit that are a shell of their former selves in the kick beer.
Significant downward departure from Kick here. Kick is fun to drink with friends and family at Thanksgiving. This is a chore.
Jun 22, 2020Pours a burnt orange not unlike a pumpkin itself but darker. 1/3" off white head. Aroma of pumpkin and a little bit of nutmeg, but I miss the notes of wood and cranberry tartness alongside the old version.
Taste, aw shit, this is just a bland pumpkin ale. No sourness, no tartness, no oak influence, little cranberry contribution, no feeling of fall leaves in the background. Carbonation is higher than I would like for something like this. Chill it out man. What a disappointment. You can still pull some cranberry for it, but it really needs the wood and bugs to make it work, instead you just get two kinds of fruit that are a shell of their former selves in the kick beer.
Significant downward departure from Kick here. Kick is fun to drink with friends and family at Thanksgiving. This is a chore.
Rated by q33jeff from New Jersey
3.25/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -6.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
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Various
Update of Pumpkin Beer from 2013-2019 Blind Tastings.
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Oct 12, 2019Various
Update of Pumpkin Beer from 2013-2019 Blind Tastings.
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois
3.75/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
"Best by 2/26/17"; drank 10/17/16 @ the Yarchives.
Semi-opaque dark orange appearance.
A rough pour yielded a small eggshell head; frothy lace.
Pumpkin pie, graham cracker, mild cranberry & faint booze heat notes in the nose.
Medium mouthfeel.
Graham cracker & pumpkin pie flavors up front; faint cranberry notes on the finish. A cinnamon bite settled on my lips over the course of the quaff.
Mild, but enough to hold my interest; above average for the "pumpkin beer" genre.
Jul 30, 2019Semi-opaque dark orange appearance.
A rough pour yielded a small eggshell head; frothy lace.
Pumpkin pie, graham cracker, mild cranberry & faint booze heat notes in the nose.
Medium mouthfeel.
Graham cracker & pumpkin pie flavors up front; faint cranberry notes on the finish. A cinnamon bite settled on my lips over the course of the quaff.
Mild, but enough to hold my interest; above average for the "pumpkin beer" genre.
Reviewed by Nass from Florida
3.26/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.26/5 rDev -5.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Pumpkick leaves a nice lacing around the glass & it is well carbonated. This is the first beer that I ever had that used the addition of cranberry puree in it & I like it. The taste is sweety & more tarty than usual for a pumpkin beer. I am glad that the cranberries are not overly done because that would just ruined things. This is not a beer that I plan on revisiting because there are plenty of better pumpkin beers on the market. Cheers! B-
Oct 05, 2018
Pumpkick from New Belgium Brewing Company
Beer rating:
79 out of
100 with
1465 ratings
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