Spicy Pumpkin Ale
Indian Wells Brewing Company
- From:
- Indian Wells Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- Not listed
- Score:
- 70
- Avg:
- 2.77 | pDev: 33.94%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 19
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 05, 2016
- Added:
- Sep 22, 2009
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
70
Okay
70
Okay
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Looks like a brown, dark orange and otherwise pumpkin colored beer. Thin off white/beige head. Aroma was pumpkin spice. Subtle.
Decent taste, nothing over the top or watery. An average beer, maybe above average for a pumpkin or Indian Wells beer. Straight up what it is.
Dec 26, 2015Decent taste, nothing over the top or watery. An average beer, maybe above average for a pumpkin or Indian Wells beer. Straight up what it is.
Rated by rubicon1983 from Nevada
1/5 rDev -63.9%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1/5 rDev -63.9%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
One of the worst beers I've ever tasted. Period. Complete swill.
Mar 15, 2015
Reviewed by Fatehunter from Oregon
2.7/5 rDev -2.5%
2.7/5 rDev -2.5%
Pours a thin head on a clear dark straw body.
The aroma is cinnamon candy and pumpkin.
The taste is watery pumpkin and a touch of cinnamon and clove.
The texture is thin and fizzy.
It's not offensive, but doesn't taste like much either.
Dec 08, 2014The aroma is cinnamon candy and pumpkin.
The taste is watery pumpkin and a touch of cinnamon and clove.
The texture is thin and fizzy.
It's not offensive, but doesn't taste like much either.
Reviewed by Anderbrau_IPA from Panama
2.01/5 rDev -27.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
2.01/5 rDev -27.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.75
Served from bottle into a pint glass.
Almost no head at all if any it dissipated very quickly.
Smell of something similar to spice, perfume and malt.
On the palate, mouthfeel was of earth, grass and piquant, not true spiciness.
A very hard to drink beer since is watery, unbalance, off-flavors. The "spicy" smell makes it difficult to endulge.
Not what I was expecting from this Pumpkin beer, maybe I should stay away from the term Spicy.
Nov 20, 2013Almost no head at all if any it dissipated very quickly.
Smell of something similar to spice, perfume and malt.
On the palate, mouthfeel was of earth, grass and piquant, not true spiciness.
A very hard to drink beer since is watery, unbalance, off-flavors. The "spicy" smell makes it difficult to endulge.
Not what I was expecting from this Pumpkin beer, maybe I should stay away from the term Spicy.
Reviewed by UCLABrewN84 from California
2.19/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.19/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Bottle pour at Field Of Drafts held at The Hanger in Lancaster, CA.
Pours a murky honey orange with a foamy bone head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small streaks of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, grain, perfume, and fake spice and fruit aromas. Taste is much the same with fake spice and fruit flavors on the finish. There is a very mild amount of spice bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a low level of carbonation with an almost flat mouthfeel. Overall, this is a poor beer with some very artificial aromas and flavors that make it hard to drink.
Nov 11, 2013Pours a murky honey orange with a foamy bone head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Small streaks of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, grain, perfume, and fake spice and fruit aromas. Taste is much the same with fake spice and fruit flavors on the finish. There is a very mild amount of spice bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a low level of carbonation with an almost flat mouthfeel. Overall, this is a poor beer with some very artificial aromas and flavors that make it hard to drink.
Reviewed by TempeBeerMan from Arizona
3.72/5 rDev +34.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +34.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a bottle into a nonic pint.
A - Pours a clear bright orange with a two-finger off white head of craggy bubbles. Rings of small tiny bubbled lacing.
S - Strong aroma of cinnamon, apple pie (?), nutmeg, baked pumpkin seeds, and wet cardboard. Strange, but weirdly good.
T - Big apple cider taste matched by candy sugared, extremely yeasty backbone; actually yeasty is a complete understatement; it almost tastes like your drinking beer straight out of a pie crust. I don't know why there is so much cinnamon apple here? There's actually more cinnamon/apple pie flavor than there is pumpkin. Some nutmeg and vanilla as well. A vegetal, wet cardboard/squashed pumpkin taste lurks in the finish. Everything described here shouldn't possibly work, but somehow it does and the taste is oddly appealing.
M - Suitably full bodied, and chewy. Prickly carbonation. Fits the flavor profile very well. Slick and slightly buttery.
O - This is one of the strangest beers I have had or reviewed. I KNOW it's flawed, but yet I liked it just the same. I know other reviewers hated it, maybe I'm just a sucker for apple pie crust. Hell, I'll probably buy it again. I cant say I'd recommend it thought because it's such an odd duck that I think each person would have to judge for themselves; but I bet this is kind of a "love it or hate it" beer.
Oct 13, 2013A - Pours a clear bright orange with a two-finger off white head of craggy bubbles. Rings of small tiny bubbled lacing.
S - Strong aroma of cinnamon, apple pie (?), nutmeg, baked pumpkin seeds, and wet cardboard. Strange, but weirdly good.
T - Big apple cider taste matched by candy sugared, extremely yeasty backbone; actually yeasty is a complete understatement; it almost tastes like your drinking beer straight out of a pie crust. I don't know why there is so much cinnamon apple here? There's actually more cinnamon/apple pie flavor than there is pumpkin. Some nutmeg and vanilla as well. A vegetal, wet cardboard/squashed pumpkin taste lurks in the finish. Everything described here shouldn't possibly work, but somehow it does and the taste is oddly appealing.
M - Suitably full bodied, and chewy. Prickly carbonation. Fits the flavor profile very well. Slick and slightly buttery.
O - This is one of the strangest beers I have had or reviewed. I KNOW it's flawed, but yet I liked it just the same. I know other reviewers hated it, maybe I'm just a sucker for apple pie crust. Hell, I'll probably buy it again. I cant say I'd recommend it thought because it's such an odd duck that I think each person would have to judge for themselves; but I bet this is kind of a "love it or hate it" beer.
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