Selins Grove Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Selins Grove Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania USA

Aroma: pumpkin and apple spice, little bit of whipped cream, and custard
Appearance: golden brown-orange, small head, lacing
Flavor: lots of pumpkin pie, cinnamon, and apple spices, like a pie, whipped cream, with a little malty/hoppiness but this not too overwhelming
Palate: smooth and creamy, nice spicy aftertaste
Overall: YUM! Would have gotten a growler, expect it’s on nitro.

Draft at Selins Grove Brewpub. Pours an amber body with a creamy vanilla head. Huge lush cinnamon notes, like smelling a cinnamon shaker. Pumpkin pie, and vanilla nitrogenous like notes. Creamy whip body with a beautiful cinnamon spiced accent. This beer is phenomenal, it completely blew me away, at 5% per the menu, i couldn’t believe the body that this one had. I had to have myself another and if the brewpub didn’t close at midnight boy i would have been in trouble. Its very rare to find so much quality flavor with such a full body and yet have so little alcohol influence. Absolutely 100% the best beer i’ve had in this style. This blows away any other pumpkin beer i’ve had to date by a landslide. So so so good!

Nitro tap @ Brewpub. we made a special trip just to try this and it was well worth it, not as good as southern tier’s pumking, but still great.. amber body with great creamy head... aroma of pumpkin and vanilla... body is very creamy and smooth, light... low alcohol content... overall very tasty and easy to drink.. well balanced spices and pumpkin flavor

2007 vintage
Pint at Selins Grove. Moderately muddy orange and near-brown colored body with a finely-bubbled foamy tan head. This may be one of the few times when I stick my nose into a beer without knowing what to expect and have it completely blow me away. I can’t do it justice with my limited rating ability (’’they should have sent a poet’’), but dear lord this thing smelled amazing: rich, creamy and spicy pumpkin soup with a hint of whipped cream, some apple cider aromas and some pumpkin bread and cinnamon as well. Ridiculously amazing aroma. Flavorwise it’s almost the same, with the whipped cream/pumpkin pie and apple cider flavors, made even better, I think, by a rich and creamy-smooth nitrogen palate. I could seriously drink this beer through the entire fall and winter, and it’s one of those rare beers you will look back on and crave over and over.

2008 version
Maybe a little more sweet up front, certainly served too cold, opens up very well with temperature. Huge spiced pumpkin pie all over this thing, nutmeg is strong and peppery. Less meaty and less of the creamy pumpkin pie charachter than the 2007. Still an amazing beer. Last years was a 4.6, this perhaps is 4.0-4.3.

Rating #1200. On tap at Selin’s Grove. Pours clear amber with a big tan nitro head. Aroma that reminds me more of apple pie than pumpkin. Spice seems to be all cinnamon (maybe a bit of ginger) with some nice sweetness that isn’t overbearing. Cinnamon flavor with hints of allspice and ginger, a bit of sweet malt and a clean semi-dry finish. Awesome beer and it seems that simplicity is the key. Easily the best nitro beer I’ve ever had.

Nitro. Of course. Aroma of pumpkin pie; mellow spices, sweet pumpkin, and, call me crazy, but I smelled whipped cream too. Either it was there and awesome, or the rest of it was so pumpkin-pie like that my mind just automatically added it, so a plus either way. Flavor is, as I wrote, ’’holy crap. pumpkin pie.’’ The nitro REALLY works well with this one, giving it a creamy texture that is the final straw in separating from th rest of the pumpkins. Excellent.

Poured a cloudy orange body with an off-white peppered head. The aroma is fresh cut pumpkin that is nicely, but not overly spiced. Just enough to complement but not take away from the pumpkin. The flavor is the same way. Big, fresh pumpkin meat with a little spice. The most natural tasting pumpkin anything I’ve ever had!!

Draft at Brewpub. Pours hazy orange with an small beige head. Aroma is pumpkin; fresh pumpkin, like you just stuck your head into a freshly carved pumpkin. Hints a spices are evident, but not over done. This is a very natural pumpkin taste, and it makes all other pumpkin beers look bad. Perfect amounts of nutmeg, and cinnamon. Extremely drinkable and very impressive!