Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin (Pugsley’s Signature Series)

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

Bottle:   Translucent amber, slight copper hue, thin sudsy off-white head, spotty lacing.   Strong pumpkin pie nose, spicy, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a lot of the pumpkin pie in a can aroma.   Pumpkin Pie ale on the tongue.   Yeah, just like the store bought kind of pie.   Not as heavy as the Southern Tier, thankfully.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Pumpkin pie spiced flavors linger.   Does remind me of a toned down Southern Tier Pumking.   Fairly good, more pumpkin than most, but could stand to have a bit bigger body.   At $20 a pop, I would expect more.   Thanks John!

( 22oz bottle, courtesy of ericandersnavy ) Pours a clear amber body with a small white head. Aroma of pumpkin, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Flavor of pumpkin, vanilla, nutmeg, and clove.

Bottled. Clear orange, no head. Aroma of pumpkin and nutmeg. Sweet, full bodied with clean rounded mouthfeel. Dominated by pumpkin and spices. Warming and somewhat caramelly with peculiar, bitterish finish of carrot and pumpkin

Pours a transparent bronze orange with light carbonation and a thin spotty lacing white head. Aroma of nutmeg, toasty caramel and some clove spice with a hint of pumpkin. Body starts with pretty good fullness and holiday spice along with some toasty caramel malty sweetness and pumpkin flavor before a drier spiced slightly warming finish. A decent pumpkin ale.

while aroma is wafting and expected from a pumpkin beer, this guy has some thin flavor. Hardly any spices are noticeable, really just slight pumpkin and a lot of alcohol. Even though it is more candyish, I prefer the regular Shipyard Pumkinhead. Bottle at Stop and Shop next to Titanic in Miami.

(Bottle) Pours orange with a small off-white head. The aroma is spicy and light fruity with notes of sweet cinnamon, vanilla, light spicy nutmeg, mild ginger, pumpkin, mango and oranges. Almost no hop and malt tones, maybe some wheat crackers and spicy grass in the background. Hits of mint and caramelized almonds. The nose is surprisingly clean. The flavour is light to medium sweet and light bitter with tones of cinnamon, pumpkin, dry malt and hints of hops. The fruity and spicy notes are in good harmony. The mouthfeel is clean with a crisp, medium carbonation. The finish is fruity and spicy with a notable (warming) alcohol sting. Medium bodied. This might be the cleanest beer from shipyard so far (still a whisper of butterscotch present). Nice but simple. Mmm... Cinnamon roll!

Bottle. Pours a red-orange liquid with almost no head. Aroma is sweet and spicy with notes of cinnamon, marzipan and a bit eucalyptus. Taste is quite sweet with some alcohol, pumpkin and spices. Drinkable, but not very good.

Bottled. Clear amber with a small mwhite head. Cinnamon and orange liqour in the aroma with touches of cedar and apricots. Nearly full-bodied with strong notes of cinnamon, almonds and sweet oranges. Dryish finish of cinnamon and nuts.