Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale

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

Been sitting in the fridge the whole time. Fall color pour, small white head. Pumpkin and nutmeg aroma with cinnamon and nutmeg. Obviously the same spices are in the taste and they are balanaced. Easy drinking and the spices are mellow and are at the exact right levels I would’ve even liked a little more because it just taste good.

rating this on memory but have drank enough to still taste it. this was my first "real" beer i had to drink by the case. taste was spicy good malts cinnamon and cloves not much in the pumpkin department but a nice beer. if i remember correctly the earlier years of it being brewed it tasted much better and then something changed in the recipe. will have to look for this and re-rate.

Bottle poured a clear orange with a lasting ivory head. Aromas of pumpkin and pie spices. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of pumpkin, clove and allspice with a crisp lingering spice finish.

Golden in coloe with a small white head. Aroma of Goldschlager/hot dam schnapps,spicy. Flavor is swqeet and spicy,astringent. not any pumpkin flavor that I can detect.

Very tasty initally, but kind of faded for me and hit a plateau. Definitely smells like pumpkin pie. Tastes of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. It had a little metallic taste about half way through. Little to no lacing. I liked Saranac’s much better. This is definitely better than Blue Moon’s Pumpkin Ale though.

I am assuming that the draft version of this beer is 10x better, but with that being said, the bottled version isnt all bad. Smells like a pumpkin pie. Looks reddish orange. Flavor is less pumpkin and more cinnamon and nutmeg. It is very easy to drink and I will probably get some more during the next holliday season just to be festive.

this had slight pumpkin flavor, better than some, hints of a few spice, not a bad autumn brew, ive had both better and worse.

It’s funny how when I see it in the stores, it just starts to feel like autumn and when I crack it open, it immediately makes it autumn and takes me back to my college days. I hope my wife doesn’t read this review but you know how something just evokes a thousand memories - of crossing the San Mateo bridge in my old top down Jeep to see my girlfriend at CSU Hayward (oh, sorry - CSU East Bay now). I can taste the salt air from the marshes and then picking up at her place behind the school, nestled in woods like it’s Truckee or something. While Hayward was all 1960’s strip mall falling apart, there was that one cozy place - Buffalo Bill’s - great fresh beer of every kind - stout, pale ale but pumpkin was always worth waiting for. It was like if we could down a few more, we could hold off winter - and then of course, we moved on - she got a great job offer back East and then Germany - she still emails me asking if I still go to Buffalo Bill’s - I do but don’t hate me, I never take the wife, I just go with my buddies and pumpkin ale takes me back - they got a great clean tasting and unique flavor down - I’ve tried others but it’s no pumpkin ale from Buffalo Bill’s.