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Captain Jack's Pumpkin Ale
The Fin City Brewing Co.
- From:
- The Fin City Brewing Co.
- Maryland, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.48 | pDev: 23.85%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 21, 2015
- Added:
- Apr 29, 2013
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 4
No description / notes.
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Ratings by tone77:
Reviewed by tone77 from Pennsylvania
3.67/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a brown 12 oz. bottle. Has a pretty mahogany color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is bursting with spices, some pumpkin. Taste is good, milder than the smell. A bit of pumpkin, some nutmeg, tasty and easy drinking. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a pretty good beer.
Nov 29, 2013More User Ratings:
Rated by therubicon from Delaware
3.45/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.45/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Appearance and smell much better than the taste. Very thin as well.
Nov 21, 2015Reviewed by ChaBrah from Maryland
1/5 rDev -71.3%
1/5 rDev -71.3%
Sucks, just sucks. This has nothing on DogFish which is located pretty close by in the neighboring state of Delaware. This beer taste like its been brewed with penny's and skunked in the sun for months. Not impressed at all. For a beer that claims to come from Ocean City, MD yet its BREWED in Baltimore this is a scam. Cool name shitty beer, sad use.
Aug 28, 2014Reviewed by ThisWangsChung from Maryland
3.6/5 rDev +3.4%
3.6/5 rDev +3.4%
12 oz bottle into a wine glass.
Appearance: Pours a murky chestnut color. The head is a finger high and off-white in shade. Its creamy texture retains fairly well, leaving a nice collar behind, as well as some lacing. (3.5)
Smell: From first whiff, I can immediately tell these brewers were influenced by Schlafly's pumpkin ale - and I can't think of a better beer to be influenced by. I'm picking up plenty of vanilla, brown sugar, and molasses; while auxiliary notes of cinnamon and allspice stay in the background where they belong. There is a slight gourd character, too. One of the better pumpkin beers I've encountered, at least on the nose. (4)
Taste: Aye...it didn't translate down to the taste buds that well. It starts off with that vanilla/brown sugar/molasses trifecta the nose indicated; on the other hand, the back end sees an upsurge of strong cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg. Once the palate properly adjusts to all the spicing, I'm actually starting to pick up a solid pumpkin flavor. After half a bottle, I finally start 'getting' this beer: it tastes less like pumpkin pie and more like...well, actual pumpkin. This deserves good marks for nailing the style guidelines quite well. It's not a glorified pumpkin soda, it's not a desserty pumpkin pie in a glass, it's just a beer with pumpkin and some spices (this is a compliment). (3.5)
Mouthfeel: Despite the fuller body, it leans closer to dry than lush. No doubt, this is all helped by its decent carbonation...maybe TOO decent? At first, the drinkability is somewhat daunting thanks to the powerful spicing; after opening up, it becomes quite easy to down. (3.5)
Overall: Oh man. If only this beer lived up to the aroma, it could have really given Schlafly's pumpkin ale a run for its money. Still, it's a rock-solid pumpkin ale, one that walks all over the lesser examples. Very well done, but it won't convert pumpkin ale haters thanks to its hefty spice characteristic. (3.5)
3.6/5: Solid pumpkin ale...but if only it tasted like it smelled...if only...
Aug 25, 2014Appearance: Pours a murky chestnut color. The head is a finger high and off-white in shade. Its creamy texture retains fairly well, leaving a nice collar behind, as well as some lacing. (3.5)
Smell: From first whiff, I can immediately tell these brewers were influenced by Schlafly's pumpkin ale - and I can't think of a better beer to be influenced by. I'm picking up plenty of vanilla, brown sugar, and molasses; while auxiliary notes of cinnamon and allspice stay in the background where they belong. There is a slight gourd character, too. One of the better pumpkin beers I've encountered, at least on the nose. (4)
Taste: Aye...it didn't translate down to the taste buds that well. It starts off with that vanilla/brown sugar/molasses trifecta the nose indicated; on the other hand, the back end sees an upsurge of strong cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg. Once the palate properly adjusts to all the spicing, I'm actually starting to pick up a solid pumpkin flavor. After half a bottle, I finally start 'getting' this beer: it tastes less like pumpkin pie and more like...well, actual pumpkin. This deserves good marks for nailing the style guidelines quite well. It's not a glorified pumpkin soda, it's not a desserty pumpkin pie in a glass, it's just a beer with pumpkin and some spices (this is a compliment). (3.5)
Mouthfeel: Despite the fuller body, it leans closer to dry than lush. No doubt, this is all helped by its decent carbonation...maybe TOO decent? At first, the drinkability is somewhat daunting thanks to the powerful spicing; after opening up, it becomes quite easy to down. (3.5)
Overall: Oh man. If only this beer lived up to the aroma, it could have really given Schlafly's pumpkin ale a run for its money. Still, it's a rock-solid pumpkin ale, one that walks all over the lesser examples. Very well done, but it won't convert pumpkin ale haters thanks to its hefty spice characteristic. (3.5)
3.6/5: Solid pumpkin ale...but if only it tasted like it smelled...if only...
Rated by Bierleichen from Maryland
4.25/5 rDev +22.1%
4.25/5 rDev +22.1%
Very smooth, great balance of spices and pumpkin flavor without over doing it. very good beer.
Aug 24, 2014Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
3.77/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
My local, in-person trader, tone77, dropped this off for me recently, thus ensuring that my year of the pumpkin is not going to ever end. I like the style, but as with all styles, not all beers are created equal.
From the bottle: "Obscenely Fresh"; "Hand Crafted"; "If you drink like a fish swim home, don't drive - Fin City cares about you ... Drink responsibly!"; "A tasty Brown Ale made with American malts, 100% real pumpkin, molasses, brown sugar and spices."
I will say this for it, following an initial pour - it smells pretty good! Once I had it all into the glass, I was looking at just over a finger of rocky, tawny head with decent retention. Color was more of a hazy orange (SRM = > 17, < 22) than a brown ale as noted on the label. The nose was intensely sweet with the molasses and brown sugar really taking the lead. I am curious as to how this will play out as I am not usually a fan of sweet anything, but conversely, I have had some pumpkin beers that were spiced to the point of saturation and I did not like them, either. Some nice lacing formed as the head fell while I was typing and so it was time for my first draught. Mouthfeel was medium and I was definitely getting cinnamon and nutmeg in the mouth, but the sweetness was there, just not in a cloying state. Hmmm. I was finding it quite quaffable and it was going down the hatch rather quickly. The finish had a pleasant dryness borne of all of the spices. It was not alum dry, but it was nowhere near as sweet as the nose had led me to believe.
Jan 26, 2014From the bottle: "Obscenely Fresh"; "Hand Crafted"; "If you drink like a fish swim home, don't drive - Fin City cares about you ... Drink responsibly!"; "A tasty Brown Ale made with American malts, 100% real pumpkin, molasses, brown sugar and spices."
I will say this for it, following an initial pour - it smells pretty good! Once I had it all into the glass, I was looking at just over a finger of rocky, tawny head with decent retention. Color was more of a hazy orange (SRM = > 17, < 22) than a brown ale as noted on the label. The nose was intensely sweet with the molasses and brown sugar really taking the lead. I am curious as to how this will play out as I am not usually a fan of sweet anything, but conversely, I have had some pumpkin beers that were spiced to the point of saturation and I did not like them, either. Some nice lacing formed as the head fell while I was typing and so it was time for my first draught. Mouthfeel was medium and I was definitely getting cinnamon and nutmeg in the mouth, but the sweetness was there, just not in a cloying state. Hmmm. I was finding it quite quaffable and it was going down the hatch rather quickly. The finish had a pleasant dryness borne of all of the spices. It was not alum dry, but it was nowhere near as sweet as the nose had led me to believe.
Captain Jack's Pumpkin Ale from The Fin City Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
23 ratings
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