Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale

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

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

light copper pour with a big dense yellow head, aroma and taste of nutmeg. not heary on the spice.

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.

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.

Initial impression when pouring - looked like pumpkin. Very pleasant taste, hints of pumpkin and cinnamon.