Toothless Pumpkin Sour Ale
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.68 | pDev: 10.05%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 28, 2017
- Added:
- Oct 01, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
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Toothless Pumpkin Ale was picked from the sour side of the patch. Fresh pumpkin is gently spiced and carefully inoculated with Lactobacillus, balancing spiced malt sweetness with a bright sour bite that finishes puckeringly dry.Its a pumpkin beer with another gear for this time of year.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.62/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Phillips Brewing 'Toothless Pumpkin Sour' @ 4.7% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear orange/amber in the glass with a medium size beige head leaving a minimal lace ring along the snifter
S-hints of lactobacillus , pumpkin spices
T-pumpkin sour
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok sour/pumpkin beer
prost LampertLand
Oct 31, 2016A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear orange/amber in the glass with a medium size beige head leaving a minimal lace ring along the snifter
S-hints of lactobacillus , pumpkin spices
T-pumpkin sour
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-just an ok sour/pumpkin beer
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.26/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
3.26/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
650ml bottle - Phillips makes every other kind of pumpkin brew, so of course, why not a soured version in this overwrought day and age?
This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves pretty much zilch (hey Team Umizoomi episode for the nth time today!) in the way of lace around the glass as things quickly seep away.
It smells of sour, almost astringent lactic notes, befuddled vegetal pumpkin and generic gourd, gritty and grainy caramel malt, some clove, ginger, allspice, and cinnamon, er, spiciness, not so subtle yeast, and some predominantly musty and earthy hop bitterness. The taste is thin pumpkin mash, well soured milk, gritty and grainy pale malt, an untethered yeastiness, muddled seasonal spices, and a consistent earthy mustiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its well-structured, fizzy and frothy twin natures, the body on the light side of middleweight, and plainly smooth, I suppose, as the gourd character stretches out, making for an almost creamed veggie sort of experience. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, the metallic spiciness ramping up, alongside the lingering soured pumpkin fleshiness.
Overall, this is yet another wholly unnecessary melding of so-called styles, wherein one of them suffers from the input of another. I'm not the biggest fan of seasonal pumpkin ales in the first place, but goddammit, enough of this souring of stuff that does not benefit from such treatment. 'For the sake of it', should never be an acceptable excuse. In the words of the South Park presumptive nominee - 'fuck this all to death'!
Oct 28, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves pretty much zilch (hey Team Umizoomi episode for the nth time today!) in the way of lace around the glass as things quickly seep away.
It smells of sour, almost astringent lactic notes, befuddled vegetal pumpkin and generic gourd, gritty and grainy caramel malt, some clove, ginger, allspice, and cinnamon, er, spiciness, not so subtle yeast, and some predominantly musty and earthy hop bitterness. The taste is thin pumpkin mash, well soured milk, gritty and grainy pale malt, an untethered yeastiness, muddled seasonal spices, and a consistent earthy mustiness.
The carbonation is fairly active in its well-structured, fizzy and frothy twin natures, the body on the light side of middleweight, and plainly smooth, I suppose, as the gourd character stretches out, making for an almost creamed veggie sort of experience. It finishes off-dry, but not by much, the metallic spiciness ramping up, alongside the lingering soured pumpkin fleshiness.
Overall, this is yet another wholly unnecessary melding of so-called styles, wherein one of them suffers from the input of another. I'm not the biggest fan of seasonal pumpkin ales in the first place, but goddammit, enough of this souring of stuff that does not benefit from such treatment. 'For the sake of it', should never be an acceptable excuse. In the words of the South Park presumptive nominee - 'fuck this all to death'!
Reviewed by bumchilly25 from Canada (BC)
4.13/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
What an unexpected treat. Sour enough to be sour and enough 'pumpkin pie' flavour to make this a sour for the season. I would recommend to those who like the pumpkin pie style Fall beers but also to those who like the sour style. This was great!
Oct 22, 2016
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