Cigar City Good Gourd Imperial Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Cigar City Brewing
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Tampa, Florida USA

This is the best pumpkin beer I have ever had, bar none. Kudos to CCB! Pours orangey gold witha nose of pumpkin pie with whipped cream, booze, ice cream, cinnamon, spice, and graham cracker crust. Flavor is equally deep and sonorous. Finish is lingering pumpkin with sugary goodness. When I started drinking pumpkin beer this is what I wanted. Please keep this bad boy around.

Pours orange with viscosity and quickly dissipating tan head. The aroma is huge thick rich pumpkin goodness. Smells like a slice of fresh baked pie. Around the edges of the aroma are notes of graham crackers and cinnamon. It smells just amazing. The taste is just like the nose with solid fresh tasty pumpkin with cinnamon spice and pie crust mixing to create a graham cracker sensation. The alcohol presence hits midway and thins it out some. It ends on the dry side with nice rich pumpkin and spices lingering deep into the after taste. This is what I want a pumpkin beer to both smell and taste like. WOW!!!

Draft… This beer rocks!... Murky caramel-colored ale with a small, creamy, off-white, orange-tinted head. The aroma? Wow! Literally one of the best things I’ve ever smelled. Smells almost too good to drink. It’s a warming blend of the very best pumpkin pie and pumpkin roll my grandma used to make. If genitalia smelled this good, the world’s overpopulation problem would totally subside. Couples everywhere would get to oral sex and then say “to hell with going-all-the-way!” Okay, okay… full-bodied and oily with gentle carbonation. Tastes wonderful. Sweet, spicy, bold and boozy. Nice bitterness. Finishes pumpkiny, spicy, minerally and bitter. A touch grassy at the very end. World class beer!