Name: Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale
Date: 09/29/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Green’s, Atlanta

clear dark gold, thin beige head, spiced aroma with cinamin and nutmeg coming through strong, well balanced spiced flavor, not much malt or pumpkin to back up the spices

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **/4

12oz bottle. Poured a medium and clear orange color with a large sized off white head. Aromas of pumpkins and spices. Tastes of watery pumpkins with some spices. The aromas wasn’t that bad but the taste was a major let down. Thin body.

Draft... Clear, amber ale with a small, white head. The aroma is bursting-at-the-seams with holiday spices and pumpkin pie. The flavor is very malty and almost sweet, but balances out mere inches before the finish-line by adequate hopping. Full-bodied and lightly oily with lively carbonation. Finishes resinous and spicy.

Draught at Brew Brothers - Boise, ID
Copper color, puffy white head. Nose of faint but distinct pumpkin pie but without any complexity. A lack of sweetness shows too. The flavor is...agreeable, more neutral and balanced with some pumpkin extract-like tastes. Light body and a rounded mellow tail. Interesting concempt from A-B.

12 oz bottle from Woodmans on Gammon Road, Madison (Oct 2006) consumed a bit above fridge temp from a Corsendonk glass. A big fizzy frothy head sputters away quickly to a smallish lasting touch of cream atop the deep brassy amber/orange body which offers faint bubbling from its clear depths....pleasant though faint and unremarkable aromas of nutmeg, vanilla, clove but not so sure about the pumpkin....reasonably malty and full body though wateriness is apparent at midpalate and the carbonation is dull and forced; some light pumpkin pie flavor, faintly sweet and a touch sour towards the finish....ends, like most such products, as a tonic-water with faint flavoring. Still way, way above average for this brewer and I might conceivably finish the bottle....