Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ale
Anheuser-Busch

Jack's Pumpkin Spice AleJack's Pumpkin Spice Ale
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From:
Anheuser-Busch
 
Missouri, United States
Style:
Pumpkin Beer
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
72
Avg:
3.1 | pDev: 18.06%
Reviews:
334
Ratings:
417
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 05, 2017
Added:
Oct 07, 2005
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  10
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Ratings by cokes:
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Reviewed by cokes from Wisconsin

1.75/5  rDev -43.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
It's a baked golden-orange in the glass with a trimming of beige that leaves a decent amount of lace.
Pie crust nose with big contributions from clove, allspice, nutmeg, and cinnamon.
These four horsemen show up immediately in the mouth, riding wave after wave of fizz to assault the mouth with spice-laden, astringent mineral water. The nutmeg and allspice are particularly brash, though cinnamon is big too. Had any real malt structure been in place, the spice would have something to settle on and compliment. Here, they seem stranded and frantic. Some honey sweetness materializes as it warms, and still stays littered with spice.
The watery, fizzy, light body cannot support what's going on here. The spicing goes from peppery to bitter to astringent without anything to rein it in. It's not their fault; in a different beer they'd be right at home. Not here.
Ick.
Nov 12, 2009
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.08/5  rDev -0.6%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Ah the ol' Jack's series of beers. They always used to show up at the shitty dive bar named Jack's. I wonder if this one is a fall season away from coming back as Shocktop Pumpkin or something similar. Anyways, golden pour, small white head that gets its ass beat and goes home. Aroma of pumpkin kind of.

The taste definitely drops those pumpkin, nutmeg and cinnamon feels on you. It definitely went for the pumpkin pie vibe. The mouth feel though makes it more challenging, instead of a lower amount of carbonation, this one goes to 11. Too spritzy, should have been significantly less in the carbonation department on this one. The pumpkin extract is probably the best thing about this beer. The base is underhopped and instead drops something excessively alpha acidicc, then the base of the beer is or might as well just be Bud Light wits excessive carbonation.

They tried.
Nov 05, 2017
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Reviewed by poisoneddwarf from Idaho

3.44/5  rDev +11%
look: 2.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.25
2009 backlog. 12 oz bottle. I’m comparing this to Blue Moon’s Harvest Pumpkin Ale, which I just drank. Here’s AB’s answer to that beer. Aroma is much better, more pumpkin pie-ish than Blue Moon’s. Appearance is much worse. It doesn’t have that nice amber hue that Blue Moon had. Also, very little head, and not as good lacing. Flavor is more like pumpkin pie, so it gets the upper hand there. Still a little watery. Overall, it surpasses Blue Moon’s, surprisingly. I wasn’t expecting that.
Jun 14, 2017
 
Rated: 2.67 by Beardo from Washington

May 02, 2015
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Rated by ALC82 from Iowa

2/5  rDev -35.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Remember as being very average
Apr 03, 2015
 
Rated: 2.88 by drbenderdo from Michigan

Feb 12, 2015
 
Rated: 2.32 by misternebbie from Pennsylvania

Nov 13, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by StrayteEDGE from Massachusetts

Sep 25, 2014
 
Rated: 2.52 by shoegueuze from California

Sep 24, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by Hellpop65 from Kansas

Aug 30, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by Robyn from South Carolina

Aug 04, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by Jack_Frost79 from Maryland

Jul 31, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by cmbeddoe7997 from Texas

Jun 04, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by wrightst from Maryland

Jun 02, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by Latarnik from New Jersey

May 25, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by ShepardCommander from Virginia

Feb 01, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by LXIXME from New Mexico

Jan 30, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by spence524 from Texas

Nov 28, 2013
 
Rated: 2 by brandonld23 from Massachusetts

Nov 16, 2013
Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ale from Anheuser-Busch
Beer rating: 72 out of 100 with 417 ratings