Pumpkin Ale
Wynkoop Brewing Company
- From:
- Wynkoop Brewing Company
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 11.21%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Oct 23, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 27, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
82
Good
82
Good
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Reviewed by deleted_user_357747
2.68/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2
2.68/5 rDev -20.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2
A surprising amount of tartness in this ale. The nose has a distinct vinegary aroma; cranberry juice, too. Very mild pumpkin/gourd aroma. Taste, too, has a distinct tart note. A bit of malty sweetness, some creamy pumpkin and spice tastes. More nuanced characteristics are lost under the tart, dry tastes.
I really doubt this is how this beer is supposed to taste, probably an issue in canning? Overwhelming cranberry-juice like tartness with a lasting dry finish. Drain pour.
Oct 23, 2015I really doubt this is how this beer is supposed to taste, probably an issue in canning? Overwhelming cranberry-juice like tartness with a lasting dry finish. Drain pour.
Reviewed by spoony from Colorado
3.39/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.39/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
From a can into a nonic glass. Reviewed from notes dated January 1, 2014.
A-An aggressive pour yields about two fingers of light-khaki colored head. The head is wispy and soapy, but it lasts for about a minute. The brew is very murky and brassy in color. Pretty standard for a pumpkin beer.
S-The aroma is a bit grainy and the pumpkin a bit thin, but there are other flavors you would expect like honey, brown sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Overall, it is decent, just not terribly inspiring.
T-The taste is heavy on the baking spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and ginger (not really a spice, I guess). There is a touch of caramel to give it some body, but the pumpkin flavor is light and slightly vegetal. Underwhelming.
M-The feel is light to medium body for the style with a chunky, aggressive carbonation that hurts drinkability.
O-Perhaps this pumpkin was past its prime (I did consume in it January, not October, but the can was not dated so who knows?) because the whole experience felt a bit underwhelming. The pumpkin flavors were mostly lost in the grainy, thin body of the beer and the spices, while appropriate for a pumpkin beer, felt oddly jumbled together. The feel was also light and a touch harsh. Oh well....
Jan 15, 2014A-An aggressive pour yields about two fingers of light-khaki colored head. The head is wispy and soapy, but it lasts for about a minute. The brew is very murky and brassy in color. Pretty standard for a pumpkin beer.
S-The aroma is a bit grainy and the pumpkin a bit thin, but there are other flavors you would expect like honey, brown sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Overall, it is decent, just not terribly inspiring.
T-The taste is heavy on the baking spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and ginger (not really a spice, I guess). There is a touch of caramel to give it some body, but the pumpkin flavor is light and slightly vegetal. Underwhelming.
M-The feel is light to medium body for the style with a chunky, aggressive carbonation that hurts drinkability.
O-Perhaps this pumpkin was past its prime (I did consume in it January, not October, but the can was not dated so who knows?) because the whole experience felt a bit underwhelming. The pumpkin flavors were mostly lost in the grainy, thin body of the beer and the spices, while appropriate for a pumpkin beer, felt oddly jumbled together. The feel was also light and a touch harsh. Oh well....
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.67/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.67/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
a very enjoyable pumpkin ale, done with roasted pumpkin, pureed pumpkin, and flaked pumpkin, which i have to imagine is some dehydrated broken down form. its dynamic in that way, but i would hardly call it a brown ale as the can suggests. its got some honey sweetness to the nose and taste which works real well with the pumpkin, and its minimally spiced, which i now enjoy in this style. more caramel in color than brown, heady as heck though, lasting and just off white, fluffy like fresh snow. sweet in the nose, malty, maybe a little more bland than the flavor, which showcases the roasted pumpkin i think a little more than the other two forms of it. copper radiance on the tongue, malty again, but not much chocolate here, more in the amber family to me. brown sugar sweetness and autumnal vegetal flesh rounds it out. a clever beer, if a little light for what it claims to be. great bubbles, lackluster body. not full enough for cold weather, but a well flavored ale that i will happily revisit next fall.
Dec 31, 2013Reviewed by Beaver13 from Colorado
2.81/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
2.81/5 rDev -17.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
12 oz can. Pours hazy orange amber with a fizzy off-white head that quickly goes to a thin film that laces the glass some.
The aroma is sweet pumpkin with some spice - cinnamon, all-spice.
The flavor is sweet bready malts and vegetal pumpkin with some fruit notes and light roast. There's some light spice - cinnamon, clove, nutmeg. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with smooth carbonation.
Overall, it's an OK pumpkin - it's a bit sweet and vegetal with subdued spicing.
Sep 27, 2013The aroma is sweet pumpkin with some spice - cinnamon, all-spice.
The flavor is sweet bready malts and vegetal pumpkin with some fruit notes and light roast. There's some light spice - cinnamon, clove, nutmeg. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with smooth carbonation.
Overall, it's an OK pumpkin - it's a bit sweet and vegetal with subdued spicing.
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