Caff-O-Lantern
Four Quarters Brewing Co.

This one pours a dark-ish red/brown, with a small head, and lots of lacing.

This one smells like heavily roasted coffee, very light maple, pumpkin pie, molasses and brown sugar.

I expected a bit more out of this one. It's pretty watery. The coffee flavor is the most dominant, and it's got kind of an insipid overbrewed coffee flavor. I don't get maple as much as I get that sticky aftertaste like you just finished a big plate of pancakes. The pumpkin flavor itself is nice, roasty and slightly bitter. There's a touch of brown sugar maltiness, but not much. This is fairly disappointing.

This is light bodied and very thin, with a softer level of carbonation.

Four Quarters is usually the master of off-the-wall stuff like this. This unfortunately didn't meet that trend.

 

On tap at the brewery.

Essentially Ugly Pumpkin with coffee in it. I really like the UP, and this was even better. Burnt orange color, aroma of sweet spice, pumpkin flesh and fresh cold-brewed coffee. Actually the main thing I like about these two beers is that the pumpkin and fall spice is not too overblown--it's just the right amount. The coffee addition was smooth and creamy, making for an extremely drinkable beer, and I rarely say this about pumpkin beers, but this thing was growler-worthy.