Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale

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

From a 12 oz bottle, this poured a cloudy orange with small white head and minimal lacing. Nose of pumpkins (of course), but also cinnamon. Fizzy mouthfeel and somewhat thin. Flavors include the pumpkin and cinnamon, but also spices like cardamom. No bitterness in flavor. Would make a decent Christmas beer.

This is a nasty terrible beer. Yellow pour with a moderate head and thin lacing, looks alright but it sure is an odd color for a beer brewed with pumpkin. Fizzy medicine-like aroma, sort of spicy with no presence of pumpkin at all. Empty mouth feel, rough finish. Flavor is just wrong and especially wrong for the style. The pumpkin flavoring tastes fake and is overly sugary. Odd blend of "spices" and all around weird flavor. I have no idea what the brewer is trying to accomplish here.

12 oz bottle. Barely qualifies as a pumpkin ale; taste is almost nonexistent. Much closer to a standard pale ale than a true pumpkin like Weyerbacher or Southampton.

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance :Amber gold with medium somewhat rocky mix-mash top 3+
Nose :Straw , grainy with saaz hop front , mashed squash with vanilla extract spiced with white pepper.
Flavour/Palate : Biscuit with vanilla and sweet dough. Spice profile gave medicinal impressions.

clear gold , tiny white head. lots a spices to this beer. watery. taste and smells like pumpkin pie.

Favorite of the Pumpkin Ales just wish it was available longer. Like drinking Pumpkin Pie

clear gold, no head, damp malt nose with a hint of a spice, strong clove flavor that defines the beer, no finish, watery palate, lots of carbonation, wet dog and orange peels.

Had this on tap at the Smokehouse with my buddy Tommy and good friend Allison while watching the Buckeyes spank the Badgers. Nose of wheat, pumpkin, and vanilla. The brew is a sparkling honey amber. The frothy white mostly diminishing head leaves no lace. The brew is again very wheatish with no shortage of pumpkin presence, a light acidity and a brief crisp finish. The light body is creamy and lively. I’m surprised this brew rates so low!