Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale

Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Portland, Maine USA

On tap I really enjoyed this beer. Crisp and clear with a wonderful spice flavor. Impressed, I bought a six pack one day but was rather disapointed by the bottled version. My rating is based on the tap version

The best pumpkin beer I have had by far. It is even better straight from the tap at the Shipyard Brewery in Portland, Maine!

12oz bottle poured in a tumbler. This is another beer I’ve had sitting around for about three months. I’m finishing up my pumpkin collection today. SPA pours the color of brass with a medium-sized creamy head. It smells like pumpkin seeds and not much else. The body is surprisingly thick and carbonated, both a boon for this beer. There isn’t much after taste but more of a bubbly memory in the back of your nasel cavity. The flavor is of pumpkin, vanilla and sweet cream that really adds a nice touch. This is one of the better pumpkin ales I’ve had in the last few years.

This draft brew from a beer bar poured a small sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were quickly diminishing and left behind a transparent typically carbonated orange colored body. The aroma was mild with nutmeg ans spice notes. The crisp bubbly carbonated mouth feel was tingly at the start and at the finish. The crisp mild flavor contained notes of nutmeg and pumpkin. Thin not like a real pumpkin pie in flavor. Not one that I would likely buy again.

LOVE this beer. Got it at Trader Joe’s as Pumpkin Ale. Great, creamy taste and texture. Lots of spice flavors in there, though not necessarily "pumpkin". I would drink this even if it wasn’t fall/october.

Bought at Trader Joe’s and labelled as Kennbunkport Pumpkin Ale. Straw-bronze color with cream film head, looks like a strong wheat beer. Wonderful spice nose of nutmeg, rounded out aptly by cinnamon and perhaps allspice or clove. No pumpkin flavor to speak of, but flavorful medley of spices, some nutmeg, a bit of dull, tart wheat on the finish as well as some peppery, spicy notes. A decent, easy drinking spiced ale.

Bottle (12oz). Slight oily haze to the pale gold, smallish fizzy-frothy white diminishing head. Sweet malt, generic pumpkin pie spice, not much actual pumpkin - clean. The taste is pretty good, actually - graham crust, pumpkin spice, herbal hops, very crisp. Light body, a hint of spicy astringency, just the right amount of light carbonation and a decent malt thickness and a nice lightly bitter fade-out. No ST Pumking, but easy to drink and not too fake-tasting.

Golden orange with a thick white head. Aroma and flavor of spice and cinnamon. Sweet, lightly bitter finish. About what I expected...not bad.