Blue Moon Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Golden, Colorado USA

Sweet, caramel and slightly vegetable aroma. Clear, bright orange with a thin not-quite-white head. Nice label. Ding for the twistoff. Tangy, peppery hopping, lightly astringent. Medium body, nice carbonation. A fair picnic ale.

Bottle. Pours a crisp and clear copper amber colour with a nice billowy creamy head that laces well. Scent is spicy/cinnamon and yeast. Taste is mild bodied with cinnamon and hints of spices and pumpkin all of which leaves a pleasant and creamy residue upon the palate. A surpisingly good example of a good pumpkin ale, slightly lacking in complexity but a definite adherence and example of and to its style.

Copper colored, off white head. Smells like pie. Cinnamon aromas. Creamy texture. Wow, There is a taste of pumpkin. The foamy head and creamy texture go together as if it were a pie.

Amber in color with a offwhite head. Pours a rich amber color. The smell is of autumn spices, cinnamon and allspice, with maybe a touch of pumpkin. Sweet in flavor with nice spicyness but not a lot of pumpkin. Pumpkin only show a little bit in after taste.

Medium bodied, well-blended brew. Not overdone like other Pumpkin offerings, but tactfully spiced. Rather nice.

Bottle: Pours orange/reddish in color with a medium, creamy looking white head. I smell a small bit of spice in this one, a little big of allspice. I think I may smell a trace of pumpkin, but I am not sure, as I don’t get a large aroma from this beer at all. Beer has only slighlty more flavor than the smell seems to make it out to have. Only a hint of pumpkin and spice in this one. Think regular Blue Moon plus a pinch of allspice and you’ve got what this beer is.

Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale 12 oz bottle Recent bottling, carved into 10/06 Medium pour in a tulip glass. Poured clear copper/brown with a medium slightly off-white mostly diminishing frothy white head. Smelt of light roasted malt and slight pumpkin. Taste was upfront, light sweet licorice and pumpkin and moderate toasted wheat bread followed by a very light medley of traditional pumpkin spices and a strong bitter burnt malt finish on a moderately long bitter spice finish. Mouthfeel was light to medium, slightly oily, fizzy with light astringency that turns to harsh astringency on the finish. Overall, a pumpkin beer that is intriguing, in complex flavors and strong earthy autumn feel, nice raw pumpkin taste, but leaves a bitter taste on the finish.

I wasn’t impressed by this beer. Tasted like their White Ale that was passed in the general direction of a pumpkin. Head, color and nose were all decent. I’d have another but there are better pumpkin beers out there.