Cranberry Pumpkinfest
Terrapin Beer Company

 

Love the orange amber color of this beer and the tan head. Powerful scent of pumpkin and cranberry. Complex flavor but the cranberry is a bit tart/cloying sweet. It's a thin beer with med/high carbonation. Not one of my favorite pumpkin ales but not bad.

 

Poured from a 12 OZ can into a pint glass at Taco Mac. The appearance is an amber color with a red tint and has a small white head. The aroma is cranberries, pumpkin spices and pumpkin. The taste is slightly sour with cranberries and pumpkin.

 

 

This is nice; the cranberry and pumpkin notes are both pleasant and the sweetness you get is very enjoyable. But it's odd; it kind of falls flat rather abruptly. You get what you came for, but it doesn't linger. It all just...disappears.

Appearance - Pours deep amber color with thin tan head that quickly dissipates leaving hardly no lacing around the glass.

Aroma - Pretty pumpkin forward hints of cranberry there is also a good amount of allspice and nutmeg it is for sure a pumpkin beer with cranberry added.

Taste - Let me start by saying I do like pumpkin beers, the pumpkin flavor is pretty good in this one. I can also tell that the cranberry juice is there much more in the flavor than the aroma. It adds a tart sweetness that plays well with the pumpkin. The flavors are pretty simple, pumpkin and cranberry juice not much else.

Feel - Pretty light bodied seems like the carbonation is a little on the high side but pretty refreshing.

Overall - I was surprised and not expecting much from this beer pretty good flavors and just the right amount of tartness.

 

 

12 oz. can into stemware.

Pours a murky reddish brown color with an inch of off white head and moderate carbonation evident. Pumpkin, cinnamon, spices, gingerbread, breads malts, and cranberries. Taste is lightly tart and where the cranberry shines through. Little over carbonated.

Overall a solid beer and a nice change of pace from all the normal pumpkin beers.

L - Dark amber red, 1 finger of amber head and some lacing left on top of the brew and glass

S - cranberries, tart, and pumpkin. Spices

T - Spices, tart, cranberries, pumpkin, sweet

F - Well carbonated and sizzles a bit on the tongue. Light body.

O - Definitely tastes like pumpkinfest but much sweeter.

 

12oz can poured into a pint glass. The nose is pretty well balanced between pumpkin and cranberry, neither dominated the aroma. The taste is pumpkin spiced up front with a lingering tartness from the cranberries. The tartness quickly becomes overpowering for my tastebuds.

This is an interesting take on a pumpkin style that screams Thanksgiving but not a beer I'd want to drink in large quantities. In fact, the single can is more than enough for me.

Nice, slightly tart pumpkin ale. Interesting take on the tyle.

 

Presentation: 12 can stamped 2.9.17 poured into a pint glass.

Look Hazy dark copper with an off-white two finger head. Very good head retention.

Smell: Cranberry, pumpkin, and spice all converge upon the nose simultaneously, resulting in a complex and exciting scent.

Taste: The cranberry pretty much drowns out everything else. There is a little pumpkin and spice in the aftertaste but you have to search for it.

Feel: Medium body,moderate carbonation, and fairly dry.

Overall: I had high hopes for this one, I could smell the cranberry and pumpkin while pouring it, but unfortunately the cranberry is over done and leaves the beer unbalanced.