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Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale

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bottled
common

on tap
common

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
4103.25/5.03.25/5.0Autumn5%75.6Lager glass, Tumbler
Commercial Description:
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale is our homage to the craft and heritage of America’s brewers. Recipes calling for the use of pumpkins in beer date back to early colonial times, when brewers sought to extend their supply of costly imported malt with locally grown ingredients, such as squash and "pompions." In that spirit, we brew our ale with the addition of pumpkin to the mash, along with traditional spices to create a delicious American original.
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 kopher (303), New York, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20

Nov 3, 2009  
clear amber, beige frothy head. spicy aroma of nutmeg and clove backed by light malt. flavor is much hoppier, bitter grass and cloves, again mild malt. overly bitter and otherwise a bit bland, spice is only up front. light-medium body and modest carbonation.

bobman006 (60), New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/514/20
Dec 9, 2009  
Bottle. Hazy copper with small creamy head. Aroma is earthy with pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and yeast. Flavors of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, all-spice, yeast, and pine. Nice mouthfeel. Medium body.


 Palidor19 (1780), Brandon, Florida, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/104/59/20
Dec 9, 2009  
tastes dusty, soapy and the a slight metallic. the hops are malts are not clear with the rest of flavor extremely astringent. there is some pumpkin though.


 nick76 (2664), Tampa, Florida, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/59/20
Dec 9, 2009  
The aroma is dusty and spicy with some pumpkin and adjunct malts. The appearance is amber with a large head. The taste is like the aroma with some metal and it’s not entirely good. The palate is OK. Overall this is a real disappointment for me.


 georgekillian (205), USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/102/54/103/512/20
Nov 30, 2009  
Not a huge fan of pumpkin beers this one has a very rough finish and the aroma smells like pumpkins and spices, but is a litte overpowering. I was not very impressed with this beer


 madmitch76 (645), , Essex, England
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/58/20
Nov 28, 2009  
6th August 2008. On tap at GBBF. Pleasant fruity and sharp start but then extreme mouc drying spicy finish. The finish really lets this beer down. Hard work.


 Pawola22 (752), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/511/20
Nov 21, 2009  
On tap at the CBS Scene at Patriot Place in Foxboro, MA. Pours a clear amber colored body with a finger-width, off-white, creamy head that dissipates quickly and leaves a moderate lacing. Aroma is a moderately sweet pumpkin pie with a light spicing. Mostly cinnamon and nutmeg. Flavor was the same. Light pumpin pie spicing and a moderately sweet caramel, pumpkin pie taste. A slight bready character with a little more spicing at the end. Light bodied and crisp with a short aftertaste. Overall, a decent pumpkin. Nothing terrible, but rather unexceptional. Eh..


 17thfloor (1485), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/511/20
Nov 19, 2009  
12oz bottle from Discount Liquors in Milwaukee. Pours a hazy glowing orange with a frothy white head. Aroma is spicy and weed-like, some pumpkin maltiness but mostly skunky spicy hops, not unpleasant though. Flavor is dry, seemingly metallic funky maybe some brett, has a weird gueuze-like flavor, seemingly like horse blanket haha, its a pumpkin gueuze and it’s not terrible, lightly spiced, light malt profile, super dry as if infected, lots of nutmeg, bitter. Medium/light bodied, abundant airy fluffy but corse carbonation congruent with some sort of infection but it’s really not detracting at all. Weird metallic quick finish. Haha... pumpkin gueuze, very bitter.


 madvike (326), Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/102/58/20
Nov 17, 2009  
Bottle - Nice copper pour with a decent white head. Aroma is baking spices: nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves. There’s a smell that alternates between Kool-whip and soap. Just a bit of pie crust. Taste is spicy and yeasty, with lots of dry, almost astringent hops on the finish. Leaves a soapy aftertaste. Way too spicy and dry for me, and the soap flavor really throws me. Not a fan.



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