Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Buffalo Bills Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Hayward, California USA

Nice, solid amber color. Good, large foamy head. Sadly it dissipates fairly quickly. Lacing is minimal, at best. Big cinnamon presence in this one. Nutmeg and cloves are in there, too. A little bit of malty sweetness. Oh, yeah, and some pumpkin smell here, too. Nice blending of flavors, here. Nothing overpowers anything else, creating a good balance. Good pumpkin flavor. Throw in the same spices from the smell, but the cinnamon is not so dominant, here. A little bit of sweet maltiness on the backend. Good medium body in this one. Nice level of creaminess. Here’s one that I will drink again, when I have the opportunity.

12oz bottle. Pours a cloudy light orange color with a puffy white head. Spicy, sweet, cinnamony aroma. Flavor of malt, quite a bit of pumpkin and spice, finishing with a touch of hops bitterness.

Pours a very murky brown with absolutely no head. The smell is really quite nice - a lot of cloves. When tasty, the clove almost over dominates the flavor of the ale and I think that there is really quite a bitter aftertaste.

12oz bottle. Pours hazy orange with a quickly dissipating off-white head. There is quite a bit of sediment floating around in this brew. Aroma is of muted pumpkin and spice. For some reason it smelled like plastic. This one isn’t going to be good. Taste is of spice, slight pumpkin, plastic, and water. Mouthfeel is very watery and carbonated. Bland, tasteless, and watery. This is not a good beer.

Pours a clear, pale amber with an almost nonexistent fizzy white head. Aroma is nutmeg, a little cinnamon, pumkin, cloves (seems a little heavy on cloves), a little black tea and lemon. Flavor is nutmeg, cloves (again, more than I would like), a little pumpkin, cinnamon comes out toward the end with some grainy and mineral notes. Palate is on the thin side, with a not so active, but very sharp carbonation, off dry throughout. Not a terrible beer, but too heavy on the cloves and light on the body and pumpkin to be all that enjoyable for a pumpkin beer.

From the bottle, pours a clear pale yellow with a thin white head. Pumpkin pie aroma. taste was also pumpkin pie, but a little watery. Pie with a little spray on whip cream. Decent, drinkable.

Poured clear and somewhere between brown and amber. Short white head. Not much lacing. The aroma was light citrus and nutmeg and possible some pumpkin. Flavor was mostly nutmeg and citrus with the pumpkin only making a brief cameo. Thin body, easy drinking. The kind of beer that gets on your nerves after drinking.

good amount of real pumpkin flavor in the finish, but im not getting the pumpkin pie experience I like in a pumpkin ale...thin and no spice