Four Peaks Pumpkin Porter

Brewed by Four Peaks Brewing Company
Style: Porter
Tempe, Arizona USA

Draught at the brewpub
Black color; creamy head. Medium-light cardboard aroma and cinnamon. Moderate chocolate and caramel flavor, luckily without the burnt malt feeling, and with a touch of cinnamon. Low bitterness. Not bad, but I don’t fancy cinnamon.

(draft) Off-white head atop a dark red-brown body. Aroma is medium sweet, pumpkin pie spices, caramel. Taste is the same. Watery light-medium body. Pleasant but nothing memorable.

Hand bottle from hellbilly. Thanks man! Aroma of pumpkin spice, a touch of sweetness, and a light roasted background. Pours dark brown with some auburn hints. A nice tan head moves to a thin ring. Cinamon, pumpkin spice, ginger, a little tartness with a super light roasted flavor in back palate. Zesty ginger lingers for a while and then a light roasted porter base makes an appearance. The ginger bread part of this one makes it different than many other pumpkin ales. This is growing on me as it warms and as I finish the bottle. The porter becomes more and more evident as it lingers on the palate after the spice subsides. Subtleness is nice sometimes and it works with this one.

Draught @ Papago

The beers pours a translucent deep mahogany color, the head is portly in size, frothy in texture and the color a light tan, lace a thick and sealing sheet upon the glass. Sweet malt and light pumpkin aroma, fresh, and crisp, start has a thin malt profile that is somewhat sweet, top is cadaverous. Finish is astringent, hops AWOL, weak and watery with the aftertaste dry and way to long lasting, a “Total Loss” in my humble opinion, and I certainly expect more from this brewery.

Scottsdale location. The beer pours to a really deep red body that looks black with a thin white head. The aroma is pumpkin, sweet black malts, light cinnamon and mace. The pumpkin and spices really works in this porter. The flavor is pumpkin, cinnamon, mace, pumpkin spices, and the porter base is nice. The palate is lightly acetic and acidic. Roasted. Medium body with a nice carbonation.

Tap at Papago. Had moderate spice aroma with some guts aroma from a freshly carved pumkin. Black body with small tan head that disapated. Medium body consisite of spice, roast and punkin flavors. Somewhat spicey aftertaste. Decent brew.

This beer is a deep brown color and has a wispy tan colored head. The spice character is nicely mellow, yet definitely noticeable. The hints of pumpkin pie spice lift up the malt sweetness and accentuate the roast character just a tad. The roasted notes remind me of dark chocolate and hints of roasted coffee beans. There is only a light bitterness in the finish, which is quite appropriate for accentuating the pumpkin pie spices. Actual pumpkin flavor, if here at all, is not noticeable under the porter & spicing notes. There is a certain fullness on the palate which helps to make this a tasty autumnal release.

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Brown. Aroma of dark, stale, dusty chocolate, pumpkin seeds, allspice, plum and coffee. Notes of pumpkin, chocolate, coffee, ginger and nutmeg, possibly. Lacking in body and pretty much everything else.