Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale

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

Bottle. Clear, filtered amber honey color. Pumpkin pie, whipped cream and light spice in the nose. Light, watery, simple, but has some nice pie spice and sweet hay. Decent enough to drink, but falls short compared to other pumpkin beer.

Best by Jan 08. Clear golden-burnt orange. Medium and lasting head. Aroma of pumpkin and clove, occasional slight banana. Wow; big cinnamon, clove and/or allspice taste is overwhelming at first, but I get used to it and actually spot some pumpkin in there too. Light-bodied, tingly and watery. Pretty nice balance between the dry and sweet; just a little too much spice in this one.

Pours yellow, clear, with a fair bit of lacing. Aroma is cinnamon and allspice. Rather akin to carrot cake. Light mouth feel with similar flavors and a mildly sweet under tone.

12oz bottle(Kennebunkport pumpkin)-A medium orangish amber body with a decent off white head that disspates into nothing. Aroma of pumpkin and spices with the taste being the same with the pumpkin lasting throughout the mouthful. Not too overpowering but I wish there was a little more pumpkin flavor. Not bad.

While this beer was one dimentional, and lacked a solid body, I liked it. The aroma was full of spices and immediatly causes one to think of pumpkin pie. An aroma that always carries me to a happier time with a full belly and lots of good food and family around. The beer poured a dark gold color, with a quickly disapating head. Flavor was just like pumpkin pie accept a bit more sour, notes of pumpkin pie spices dominate ontop of sour and I guess pumpkin flavor. Pretty dry actually. Palate is soft, lacking body, and dries out the mouth. of the two pumpkin ales I’ve had this one is the best.

Bottle as "Kennebunkport Pumpkin Ale." Of most of the pumpkin beers I’ve had recently, this was one of the few that actually tasted like pumpkin. Others are almost entirely spice, masking any real pumpkin flavor that is in there.

Clear dark gold with good head. Aroma is mostly cinnamon. Taste is almost unbearable immediately. It’s like cinnamon sour pumpkin pie. A little citrus to go along with your spices? No thank you. I hope this was a bad bottle, because I don’t know how one could taste this and let it go out the brewery door. Drain pour.

I’m a big fan of the fall seasonal beers, and I thought that this beer was fantastic. It tastes almost like pumpkin pie, with heavy hints of cinnamon. Definitely one of the strongest fall beers out there.