Head Of The Horseman
D9 Brewing Company

Look: It pours deep amber with a tan head with orange hues. Head retention is very good.

Smell: It has pumpkin aromas with cinnamon and nutmeg. It has a bit of a flowery flagerance to it as well. There are some lighter all spice notes as well.

Taste: It has pumpkin flavors with all spice and nutmeg. It has strong alcohol notes as well.

Feel: It has a medium full body with noticabel alochol and a bit of sweeetness near the end.

Overall, for me too much pumpkin without the sweetness.

16oz can from total wine. Amber pour with a frothy, bubbly head. Aroma is the norm for the style, pumpkin pie spice with some hints of the squash also. Taste is more savory pumpkin spice, malty, mildly sweet. ABV not very noticeable, nice weight and feel.

 

 

 

 

This beer hits the spot in all facets of the beer. I love D9 brewing, they give you quality products year after year. If you love a stronger abv pumpkin beer, this one’s for you

Head of the Horseman from D9 Brewing. Picked up at Shangy’s, Emmaus, PA. $ 2.12 (Including tax)/16 oz can ($ 0.133/oz) on 18/09/21. On room temperature at store, stored at 37 degrees at home. Reviewed 21/06/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. Served at 48.3 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 52.3 degrees.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Pale Amber (SRM 9), hazy and dirty.
Body – Medium Amber (SRM 12), opaque. When rear-lite, translucent orange.
Head – Average (Maximum three cm, aggressive center pour), antique white, medium-density, short retention, diminishing to a 01 cm bubble ring and an island.
Lacing – None.
Aroma – 3 – Very weak cinnamon and nutmeg. No malt, no hops, no yeast.
Flavor – 3 – Not much. Slightly sweet with some mulled spice. No pumpkin. No ethanol (10 % ABV, as marked on label) aroma or taste. Ghostly transitory gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3 – Medium, quarter-way syrupy, lightly fizzy carbonation, most noticeable when warming in the mouth.
Final impression and summation: 3 A mulled spice ale with undetectable pumpkin. Not good but with the correct price point – another cheap alcohol delivery system.

A damn fine imperial pumpkin...

Weighing in at 10% ABV this imperial pumpkin ale hits the spot in all the right places. Great looking beer with a smell that is sweet as it spicy. The taste follows along quite well as I noted strong flavors of cloves, nutmeg, and pumpkin. Carbonation is just about right and I would have one each night in October, if I dared...

Very good. Malty, yes...but well balanced. Just sampling this year's batch. Tasty! The Brewery/Tap room is only 9 miles away. This one came out last yr. Not long after I discovered where they were.

Very enjoyable Pumpkin Ale. Poured into a pint glass from a 16 oz can, this beer is a mostly clear amber color with a big fizzy light tan head. Head retention is quite good and a covering of the glass remains until the end!!!! There are thin bands of lacing up and down the glass. A good-looking beer!!! Aroma and taste feature slightly sweet bready malt and real pumpkin flavor. There is some spicing too, but not the over-done annoying potpourri of allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon that ruins many pumpkin ales. The spicing is subtle and I believe there is a little vanilla in there too. Mouthfeel is creamy, smooth and rich. There is some hint of the 10% abv but not much. A little bite and that's it!!!! A very good Pumpkin Ale!!!!

 

16 oz can, best by 2/1/22. Pours clear dark reddish amber with a medium creamy white head that goes to a thin film that laces the glass.

The aroma is sweet malts and lots of pumpkin spice, more allspice and nutmeg.

The flavor is sweet biscuity malt with some cola and pumpkin spice and a boozy finish. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

Overall, a bit muddled. I remember liking this more the first tie I had it.

Dark brown in color with a fingernail of off-white around the rim. Light lacing is present. I'm smelling thin vanilla and clove. I taste clove, nutmeg, pumpkin, and yes, more clove. The mouth is overspiced and busy. The prevalence of spice ends up lightly burning the tongue.