Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale

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

(Bottle) Extremely pumpkin-y. Spicey, warm, like pumpkin bars. Sweet, not very bitter, not very beer-like. Not even like a good pumpkin pie because a good pumpkin pie is less sweet. I only tasted this one and I do not have any desire to consume a full one; I doubt I would be able to stomach it. The only redeeming quality it had was that it was light.

Nov. 2005 - This beer was downright offensive. Poured pale yellow with little head. The smell and taste was just tart, take your tongue and shrivel it up like a prune awful. Do some genetic engineering and cross a pumpkin with a lemon, put it in a beer, let it sit for a while and serve. There, you got it. Awful.

Bottle: Nose nearly non-existant with a few whisps of malt and pumpkin ish spice. Body comes in two large cresting waves of pumkinish malt ugh. Ends abruptly. Pass.

I must be one of those people who "Love" this beer. For what it is, a great job was done. from the arome to the initial and after-taste, this beer is great.

Draft at Emerald Coast Beerfest. I think this beer is best described as pumpkin pie in a bottle. Aroma and flavor is just like really good pumkpkin pie. I don’t think this would be a session beer but, I liked it a lot.

12 ounce bottle. Shaker glass. Golden with no head. (Much lighter than I expected for this type of beer.) Aroma - light spices. Taste started with notes of pumpkin pie and nutmeg, but faded quickly. By mid-bottle this was nothing more than a pale lager with soem spice added. Thin mouthfeel.

Pours a clear orange colour with a small white head that disapated rather quickly. Aroma of pumpkin, nutmeg, and cinnimon. Initial taste of strong nutmeg, nutty, nutmeg, and hint of malts. Finishing with a cinnimon palate that really brings in the fall season.

Clear orange color with faint white head. Aroma of pumpkin with faint nutmeg. Solid pumpkin pie flavor with a faintly harsh finish.