Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale

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

Horrible! Pumpkin color with non-existent head. Spicy/cinn. nose w/ hints of pumpkin. Awful sour balsamic taste with even worse metallic finish. Very watery. This is the worst beer I have ever experienced.

The aroma is pumpkin, nutmeg and a little cinnamon. The head is fully diminishing, virtually no lacing, the body is clear and copper/orange in color. The initial flavor is fizzy, not much flavor, pumpkin and nutmeg. The body is light, the texture watery and the carbonation fizzy.

This beer pours very little head and what’s there dissipates quickly. It is very light and refreshing with some sweetness and obviously pumpkin, but very mild doses of both and an even more subtle hint of cinnamon. It finishes clean. By itself it was underwhelming but I can imagine it would be great paired with spicy food or on a hot day.

Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. It’s an attractive pale orange color with a white head of 1.5 fingers. The head dissipates to nothing unnervingly quickly. Smells like cinnamon and nutmeg and pumpkin. Tastes like one part pumpkin pie and one part sparkling water put into a blender. Not really any beer characteristics to be found. Kind of cloying. The body is pretty thin and the carbonation is pretty high, making it refreshing but weak. No sir I will not have another.. I was lucky enough to be in a food-pairing mood with this beer; I had some jalapeno cheese on crackers while drinking it. The cheese’s hot spiciness complemented the nutmeg and clove characters of the beer, but I can’t imagine drinking this beer without accompaniment. Have it with Thanksgiving dinner or don’t have it at all, basically.

During the eallry parts of fall I always try to find some new pumpkin ales. I came across this one. It has a great smell of nutmeg, pumpkin and cinamon. It has a amberish color and little head. It tase just as a it smells but a strong after tast of nutmeg and cinamon. I wish it had a little more pumpkin flavor and less nutmeg, but overall good pumpkin ale. Give it a try...

12oz bottle: just pouring this beer i knew i made a mistake! pours a very clear amberish light brown. aroma has a few light notes of spices but almost not even there. flavor tastes like a watered down macro but i can taste the pumpkin and some spices most notably. it takes a big sip to even get a idea of what it is im tasting a small sip is tastes just like water. on top of it all it could use some more CO2. im being pretty hard on this beer but i dont enjoy paying 9 bucks a 6 pack for water.

Pours a clear copper-orange with a small foam ring. Lots of nutmeg in the nose, with a bit of cinnamon as well. Nutmeg dominates the flavour, and blends with hops for a great bitterness. Slight pulpy pumpkin flavour as well. Thin body with decent carb. I really like the spices in this beer - quite bold!

Bottle. Pour a hazy dark orang with slight head. Pumpkin aroma is quite overpowering, but spice even overpowers that. The aroma somehow doesn’t transpire to the beer which seems somewhat flat.