Jacked-O-Lantern
Source Farmhouse Brewery
- From:
- Source Farmhouse Brewery
- New Jersey, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
- ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.23 | pDev: 3.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 05, 2025
- Added:
- Dec 31, 2020
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Brewed with Milk Sugar | Conditioned on Organic Peruvian Coffee Beans & Pumpkin Spice
Jacked-O-Lantern pours a beautiful, pumpkin-orange hue into a glass and forms a crown of dense, aromatic, off-white foam.
We brewed this giant cream ale with a base of Maris Otter and Munich malts, along with golden toasted oats and a touch of milk sugar, which aid in thickening the beer’s body for a latte-like drinking experience.
Post fermentation, Jacked-O-Lantern was cold conditioned on freshly roasted, organic, Peruvian coffee beans sourced from our local friends at @1stincoffee along with a pinch of pumpkin spice.
This massive brew is a straight up coffee bomb, accented by complementary aromas rich, toasty cereal malts, sweet cinnamon, and seasonal spice.
We get notes of stepping foot into your local coffee shop in October, cafe con leche, cinnamon crumb cake, apple pie crust, toasted oats, graham cracker, brown sugar-cinnamon pretzel, and caramel frappe with sweetened cream.
Jacked-O-Lantern pours a beautiful, pumpkin-orange hue into a glass and forms a crown of dense, aromatic, off-white foam.
We brewed this giant cream ale with a base of Maris Otter and Munich malts, along with golden toasted oats and a touch of milk sugar, which aid in thickening the beer’s body for a latte-like drinking experience.
Post fermentation, Jacked-O-Lantern was cold conditioned on freshly roasted, organic, Peruvian coffee beans sourced from our local friends at @1stincoffee along with a pinch of pumpkin spice.
This massive brew is a straight up coffee bomb, accented by complementary aromas rich, toasty cereal malts, sweet cinnamon, and seasonal spice.
We get notes of stepping foot into your local coffee shop in October, cafe con leche, cinnamon crumb cake, apple pie crust, toasted oats, graham cracker, brown sugar-cinnamon pretzel, and caramel frappe with sweetened cream.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Tony210 from New Jersey
4.34/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +2.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Pours a dark golden color, huge foamy head. Massive coffee aroma. Initial sip is a coffee bomb: think spiced latte. The coffee gives way to a sweet cream flavor, with gentle pumpkin spice on the finish. Carbonation adds to a very creamy texture. Overall a very tasty coffee/pumpkin cream ale, ABV is very sneaky.
1/5/25
16 oz can dated 10/15/24
4.25 rating
1/14/26 update - still delicious.
Jan 05, 20251/5/25
16 oz can dated 10/15/24
4.25 rating
1/14/26 update - still delicious.
Reviewed by JerzDevl2000 from New Jersey
4.35/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.35/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Picked this up at Source two Fridays ago, as this wasn't distributed anywhere outside of the brewery itself. Was completely pumped to give this a go and like nearly everything else I've had from Source, this did not disappoint in any aspect as it might have been the best Cream Ale that I've ever gotten my hands on. Yes, this was that good!
Appropriately, this beer with a pumpkin moniker looked just like it when I poured it out as it had a lovely, lasting radiant appearance to it with a massive, eggshell head that more than held it's own as it took forever to settle down. A few tiny bubbles floated upwards throughout as the aroma was full of pumpkin, pumpkin pie, cinnamon, nutmeg, bundt and pound cake, brown sugar, and cool whip (from the milk sugar) in the nose as the taste was pure fall in every sense of the season. Sweet, smooth, and nuanced, this was an autumn dessert in a can with the slickness of coffee, the sweetness of the cafe con leche, and the fullness of the malts and oats that gave this a body that was full without filling me up. Even more amazing was booze...
Where was it?
3,000+ beers reviewed by me on here over the last 16 years and damned if I *ever* had one that hid the alcohol as well as this. Sure, the cream was enough to tie everything in together but all of the sensory notes combined with that were enough to make this feel like a session beer. Dated 10/19 with "THIS IS HOPOWEEN" written underneath it, this somehow straddled the like between a Cream Ale, a Fruit and Field beer, and an Imperial IPA effortlessly as the end result being one of the best seasonal beers that I've ever had. Skip the piles of Pumpkin Ales and Octoberfests in your local store and get a can of this, before the calendar flips towards beers that are just as heavy down to their core. I loved this and you probably will too!
Oct 31, 2021Appropriately, this beer with a pumpkin moniker looked just like it when I poured it out as it had a lovely, lasting radiant appearance to it with a massive, eggshell head that more than held it's own as it took forever to settle down. A few tiny bubbles floated upwards throughout as the aroma was full of pumpkin, pumpkin pie, cinnamon, nutmeg, bundt and pound cake, brown sugar, and cool whip (from the milk sugar) in the nose as the taste was pure fall in every sense of the season. Sweet, smooth, and nuanced, this was an autumn dessert in a can with the slickness of coffee, the sweetness of the cafe con leche, and the fullness of the malts and oats that gave this a body that was full without filling me up. Even more amazing was booze...
Where was it?
3,000+ beers reviewed by me on here over the last 16 years and damned if I *ever* had one that hid the alcohol as well as this. Sure, the cream was enough to tie everything in together but all of the sensory notes combined with that were enough to make this feel like a session beer. Dated 10/19 with "THIS IS HOPOWEEN" written underneath it, this somehow straddled the like between a Cream Ale, a Fruit and Field beer, and an Imperial IPA effortlessly as the end result being one of the best seasonal beers that I've ever had. Skip the piles of Pumpkin Ales and Octoberfests in your local store and get a can of this, before the calendar flips towards beers that are just as heavy down to their core. I loved this and you probably will too!
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