Rock Bottom Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Rock Bottom Corporate Office
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Louisville, Colorado USA

Deep amber with a ring of spice on the rim. Very spicy aroma with cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice with a sweet malty base note. Flavour is a bit thin unfortunately, but it isn’t bad.

Poured a creamy orange. Aroma is all pumpkin spice, wow. Flavor is very over the top pumpkin, spice and sweet pie.

Draft ad the Seattle location. Clear light orange with a slightl but lacy white head. Tending to a medium body with subdued carbonation. The taste and aroma are basically pumpkin pie in a glass. The hops make a minor appearance in the othewise spicy dry finish. This brew is pretty decent, but it’s a good thing that Halloween is just around the corner - I’m at my limit for pumpkin beers.

Draft in Cincinnati under the name of Harvest Moon. Hazy copper color with a small creamy white head that diminished slowly and produced a light lacing. Heavy spicy pumpkin pie aroma. Light to medium body with a creamy texture. Moderate sweet pumpkin flavor with an average finish.

Coppery-orange in color, with an off-white, thin yet resilient film that left some lace. Pumpkin pie aroma with spices and heavy nutmeg, all of which carry through to the flavor. A little thin in the mouth but full-flavored. ’Tis the season, so indulge your craving.

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On tap at the Milwaukee location. Clear orange-golden body under a thin white head. Spicy nutmeg nose, not much sweetness to it. Pumpkin in the flavor along with some sweet (but very light) pale malt; cinnamon and nugmet as well. Noble hop bitterness in the finish. The beer does taste like pumpkin pie just w/o the custard-sweet goodness. A weak amber w/ pumpkin spice thrown in. Re-rate 10/31/06 - about the same!

Someone did it! After my having some pretty bad interpretations of the pumpkin beer, this one is really tasty. Clear bronze color. Gentle pumpkin aroma, also showing hints of the pie spices. In the flavor, there is some fruitiness up front, then the pumpkin flavor comes in mid-finish, with a dry hop grassy bitterness taking over the late finish. Nicely balanced and interesting. Well done. On tap at West Des Moines, IA, location.

After drinking this I’m not sure why anyone would put pumpkin in a beer. It seems like just an excuse to play with spices, in this case, too much play.