Moosejaw Great Pumpkin Ale

From the Jug at the GABF Colorado Convention Center, Denver 09/10/2008 Spiced aroma. Bronze golden coloured and spicy pumpkin with a crisp and dry lasting finish.

(growler thanks Skyview) Pours brown with a tan head. Spiced aroma of mutmeg and cinnamon, but I couldn’t get any pumpkin out of it at all. Same as the aroma the taste was all spice and no pumpkin at all. 110 lbs. of pumpkin? I couldn’t detect it.

Thanks to skyview for sharing. Nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon. Faint pumpkin. Brown color and sweet pumpkin pie body. Very nice.

[Growler, thanks Skyview] I like pumpkin pie and pumpkin beers, and had this from the same growler as JK and badgerben, so it is strange how different of a take I got on it. Pours cloudy orange-brown with a small tan head. Aroma is lightly spiced with no sign of pumpkin. Taste is very unusual--there was nothing but a light, bitter almost nuttiness when first poured before the pumpkin spices revealed what type of beer this really was. I once again got no pumpkin from the taste. A below-average pumpkin beer.

Thanks to Skyview for this one. One of Moosejaw’s best products. The aroma has abundant nutmeg and cinnamon. Cloudy brown color and fairly thin body that is fine for this style. Malt and sugar in the flavor as well as more cinnamon and mild pumpkin pie flavor.

Another growler courtesy of Skyview, of course. Clear reddish-brown color with no head. Aroma of cloves and allspice. Great taste of pumpkin, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Very malty and caramelly. Freaking fantastic pumpkin ale. Bravo!

Sampled on draught at the brewpub in Wisconsin Dells as "Moosejaw Pumpkin Spice Ale." Pours a clear orange-copper amber brew with a creamy off-white head that slowly dissolves to a white ring with some spotty lacing. Aroma of multi-grain malt, pumpkin pie filling with a touch of nutmeg, cinnamon and some grassy hops. Taste is medium bodied, lightly carbonated with a good balance of malt and pumpkin pie filling flavor. Finish is semi-dry with a pumpkin pie filling aftertaste flavor. The 2007 year’s batch is 5.2% abv which is pretty decent. The 2008 vintage has more pumpkin filling flavor and very little bitterness.

Poured an auburn body with a great off white / brown headthat went away quickly. Aromas of clove and cinnamon. Tasted of cinnamon, slight clove and some sweet chocaltey malt and leaves a very sweet aftertaste - but not overly sweet. I have been pretty underwhelmed by Moosejaw in the past, but this is by far the best overall beer that I have sampled from them.