Cottonwood Pumpkin Spiced Ale

Brewed by Carolina Beer Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Mooresville, North Carolina USA

Draft pint at Green Leafe Cafe. Orange-red, almost muddy but certainly opaque. Zero head and no carbonation. The aroma is only light nutmeg, but the flavor is full and fall-like in an entertaining way. Pumpkin pie, nutmeg, even a bit of cinammon. Nice flavors for a fall meal of turkey and mashed potatoes. (#3145, 10/19/2007)

Draft sample at Knoxville Brew Jam. Poured a cloudy copper color with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate spicy pumpkin aroma. Medium body. Medium sweet pumpkin flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration.

Bottle. Unfiltered, hazy amber color with little head. This beer smells delicious. It overwhelms with an array of cooking spices. A few whiffs of this makes me want to eat a cookie. That same spiced cookie theme is the strength of the flavor, but isn’t so strong as to overpower the beer itself. Very tasty, unique beer that’s good enough I’d enjoy having it around all year long.

Not a big fan of this one at first. A little thin and the spicing is faint and incredibly pumpkiny. The spicing is more the cinnamon and clove style spicing. The beer is a little flat as well. The color is nice and there is a slight malt backbone but other than that, there is not much else happening.

Pours a amber color with tan head. Has a nice spice and pumpkin aroma. Sweet tasting with good amounts of pumpkin acoompanied by a bit of maltiness and traces of spices. Of the recent pumpkin beers I have had this is the best. But still not a great beer.

Pumpkin pie aroma. Orange color, medium head. Tastes of sweet cream, nutmeg, and pumpkin. The pumpkin taste is more pronounced than in other pumpkin ales I have had.

Poured from 12 oz bottle, had an orangey color with a definate pumpkin and spice aroma. Flavor was of pumkins, spice. Normally I do not care for these types of beers, but this one was surprisingly good. Easy to drink and is enjoyable. Even the wife liked it.

draft. orange/amber color with a frothy head. light sweet pumpkin aroma. very smooth with a touch of spice and a nice mellow pumpkin flavor. as I am not a huge fan of pumpkin beers I did enjoy this as it was light and smooth with just enough pumpkin flavor to let you know what your drinking.