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Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale

Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale - Spice/Herb/Vegetable

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 Percentile 
38
overall
Brewed by Buffalo Bills Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable

Hayward, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6412.92/5.02.92/5.05%43.3Lager glass, Tumbler
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Commercial Description:
An amber style ale, originally brewed by George Washington, brewed with fresh roasted pumpkins, malted barley. Cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg are added. Bottled form is brewed under contract by Portland Brewing Co.
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 BeerBunker (601), Burbank, Illinois, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
Nov 8, 2009  
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.


 fidelis83 (707), Clinton, Iowa, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/56/102/511/20
Nov 5, 2009  
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.


 Scubatrip (387), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/104/512/20
Oct 28, 2009  
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.


 Soonah (900), Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/511/20
Oct 23, 2009  
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.


dand645 (62), Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/55/102/513/20
Oct 21, 2009  
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


 6ROW (243), corpus christi, Texas, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Oct 20, 2009  
light copper pour with a big dense yellow head, aroma and taste of nutmeg. not heary on the spice.


 nickd717 (1276), Palo Alto, California, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/53/102/56/20
Oct 17, 2009  
Bottle from Whole Foods, poured into pint glass. Tried it out of morbid curiosity after my friend from PA told me it was "just as good" as Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin, which I had shared with him earlier. After drinking this, I do not see any way that he could think that. It is god-awful. Figured I had to try it though since I live about 15 miles from the brewery. Hazy orange color with a sizzling white head that sounds like the steaming fajitas plate from a Mexican restaurant as it violently fizzles down to absolutely nothing. Decent pumpkin spice aroma as well as apple juice. Not much to it, but not terribly offensive. Very strange flavor. A little artificial-tasting pumpkin spice and some apple juice. Finish is almost like a wild ale, with a strange tartness, almost bretty. Palate is watery and weak, with a harsh astringency. This is terrible. I actually had this at my uncle’s place a few years ago and thought it was pretty good. Wow, how my palate has changed. I don’t know, maybe this was meant to be drank out of the bottle for some reason. Smelled better out of the bottle than the glass, and it would actually be a good thing to lighten the flavor of this mess of a beer.


 Collint (450), Sylva, North Carolina, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/55/103/512/20
Oct 11, 2009  
Bottle, pours a clear beer with no head. Aroma is nice and spicy. Prety basic for this beer, nothing special. Notes of nutmeg, light alcohol.



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