Johnny Rails Pumpkin Ale
Erie Brewing Co.

 

 

Got a single 12 oz bottle of this tot ry. Poured into one of my pint glasses, this beer pours a mainly clear, medium copper color with a nice white head that's about an inch thick when first poured and that settles eventually to a thick ring lining the inside of the glass along with some spotty cluster swirls and spots of surface foam along with decent lacing. Aromas of slightly toasted, bready malt with slight hints of caramel sweetness that gives way to some cinnamon and pumpkin along with a hint of nutmeg and a touch of clove. Tastes like ti smells, with slightly toasted, bready malts with a bit of caramel sweetness that's immediately followed by cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and definite pumpkin. Not really any discernible hop presence here, and that's okay. A solidly good and enjoyable flavor profile here. Has a slightly crisp, also smooth, medium bodied mouthfeel with moderate carbonation. Has a clean finish with a nice, slightly spicy and pumpkiny after taste. Not too shabby here.

Eric

 

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Update of Pumpkin Beer from 2013-2019 Blind Tastings.

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This beer is a watery mess with some mild pumpkin flavor. I've had a fair amount of bad pumpkin beers & this is up there with the worst of them. If you're into watered down pumpkin beers then this might be up your alley but it certainly ain't up mine. I'm sorry but this pumpkin beer does not deserve a good score. Cheers! C-

 

 

Solid pumpkin brew, shout out Scott!

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a Dogfish Head tulip

L: Nearly clear copper pour with 2 fingers of foamy white head. Great lacing.

S: Pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice. Sweet autumn type stuff.

T/F: Toasted malts... sweet grains and mild hops. Pumpkin and pie spice... clove and nutmeg, but mild. Doesn't drink like a pumpkin soda which is a positive... light bodied.

O: A decent pumpkin beer. Drinkable and not obnoxious, which is pretty much all I really ask of a pumpkin beer.

 

 

Amber in color with an opaque look and a slight white head from tap. Another sweet caramel pumpkin nose with some slight spice. Sweet pumpkin flavor with some spice. Thinner feel. Ok.

Poured into a glass mug.
The appearance was a slight copper color with a slim white foamy to bubbly head that swiftly glided off to leave barely any lace.
The aroma had a pumpkin sweetness about it like sweet pie but without the pie crust. Then some clove and nutmeg.
The flavor was moderately sweet with an ample amount of spice from the clove and nutmeg laying down on the pumpkin portion. Mild aftertaste of sweet pumpkin, then clove.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a substantial sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt good. Mild spices try to let in some harshness but honestly, they really don't play as much as I thought they would.
Overall, mostly a good pumpkin ale I could come back to.

 

 

Poured from a bottle into a tulip glass.
Color is copper, with thin white head and no lacing. Main aroma from spices: cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Taste is dominated by the spices, minimal malt background. Thin body. Okay to have once, but there are better pumpkin ales available.

Cinnamon, Pumpkin flavor one of the better pumpkins. I live a 1/4 mile from the new facility nice place.

 

12oz bottle, poured into glass.
Look: Dark amber, with no head.
Smell: cinnamon, pumpkin, bread.
Taste: Cinnamon and pumpkin, with malt at the end.
Feel: easy to drink considering the abv.
Overall: one of the best pumpkin beers I have ever had. It is not too overpowering like some of the other contemporaries. It still has a beer taste. I will buy again, and recommend.

 

 

 

Poured from a brown 12 oz. bottle. Has a copper/orange color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is an excellent pumpkin pie aroma. Taste has much more spices than the smell, lots of nutmeg, some cinnamon and ginger, pumpkin is in the background. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a quality beer.

Copper colored and the head completely disappeared after about 10 seconds. It's carbonated as i see minuscule bubbles erupting from within. The aroma is of pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice. The spicing is a bit overwhelming with this one. Pumpkin pie spice, nutmeg, cinnamon, and perhaps clove are all in the mix. The mouth is a bit watery and otherwise hard to discern due to aggressive spicing.

 

 

12oz bottle poured into a can glass

A- pours a clear Amber color wit ha small fizzy white head that disappears, leaving nothing behind

S- cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, pumpkin pie crust & some vanilla

T- vegetal flavor up front with notes of cinnamon and allspice. Some stewed apples, cola-like finish

M- medium body and carbonation leads to a foamy mouthfeel and a biting finish

O- drinks more like a pumpkin soda, could use a bit more malt sweetness

Bottle into a snifter.

2.5 A: Mildly hazed medium orange color with a brown tint. Less than one finger of frothy beige head that falls almost immediately and leaves no lacing.

2.75 S: Very mild aroma. Pumpkin with cinnamon and ginger but not enough of any of them. Otherwise, not much going on. The malts are very mild and offer just a hint of caramel.

2.5 T: For as mediocre as the nose is, the taste is mediocre-er. Faint pumpkin and spice and otherwise watery and uninteresting.

2.25 M: Light to lighter medium body. Good moderate carbonation. Watery without creaminess.

2.25 D: Pretty shitty.

Undated bottle at 42 degrees into shaker
Aroma weak – pumpkin and ginger
Head large (7.5 cm, aggressive pour), off white, frothy, diminishing to a two mm ring and layer
Lacing - none
Body light orange, hazy
Flavor odd – no pumpkin; melange of spices, all underwhelming and confused; no malt, no hops, no alcohol, no diacetyl
Palate medium, watery, fizzy

Appearance 3, Aroma 3.5, Flavor 2.5, Palate 3, Overall 3. Worst pumpkin ale to date.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours pumpkin orange in color with a crisp white head.

Aroma is of nutmeg, cloves, and sugar.

Flavor is intense of nutmeg with undertones of cloves, pie crust, and earl grey tea.

Nicely carbonated. The beer could stand to be heavier.