Southern Tier Pumking

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Lakewood, New York USA

My first (and hopefully only) drain pour of a Southern Tier beer. This was truly discusting in everway. I went in expecting a typically great Southern Tier beer because most of them are, but after the first sip I soon discovered that this isn’t even close to being good. It dosen’t even taste like beer. Its like pumpkin juice with alcohol and carbonation. Stay far away from this.

Bottle from lilbeerdoctor, thanks! Fresh pumpkin flesh aroma released from the bottle upon opening. Complex layers of vanilla, nutmeg, and even crust. Ambered golden color and a thin white head that didn’t really last or lace. Flavor is segmented and astringent which sticks to the roof of my mouth and lingers with a burn until the next sip. I kept wanting to drainpour this

Bomber purchased at West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago. Pours amber with white frothy head. Aroma of spices and pumpkin, smells just like a pumpkin pie. Taste is of liquid pumpkin pie, no other way to describe it than that. Nice beer for the season, and if you’re looking for a true pumpkin ale, this is it!

Light tan-orange with a minimally resilient head. Fills the nostrils with sapid overflow of knock-your socks off spices and brown sugar. Cinnamon and nutmeg and allspice and, especially, ginger snaps, are prominent. Buttered, browned pumpkin crust. Liquid pumpkin pie on steroids. Alcohol accentuates the spicing. On the sweet side, but otherwise the best pumpkin ale since Glacier’s Drunkin’ Punkin.

22 ounce bottle from By the Bottle in Vancouver, WA--Yeah! Body a rich light copper-orangy hue. Very light but with big legs. Creamy off-white head. Massive real pumpkin pie nose. Flavor, crisp, delicious, spiced, bready, boozy. This beer is no joke a pumpkin pie in a bottle...crust and all. How’d they do it. Not artificial tasting. Very nice presentation. Good masking of alcohol. Delish!

Bottle. Pours a clear amber with almost no head. The aroma is of pumpkin, carrots, raisin, toffee, baked bread. It smells so much like a freshly baked irish pumpkin bread with a hint of peppermint in the nose finish. The flavour is just like the aroma. Dry baked bread slowly envelops the palate as the brew sits on the tongue. Carrot and pumpkin become the dominant flavours with some sweet toffee and light spices as complementary flavours. As the brew passes the tongue, raisins and nuts manifest as the dry baked pumpkin/carrot bread erupts. Hopsy bitterness amplifies the dryness and well complements the other flavours. Alcohol also becomes slightly apparent. In the finish the bitterness fades rather quickly. It takes a short while for the pumpkin bread flavours to fade. Thereafter, you’re left with a dryness and strange numbness on the roof of your mouth. I like this kind of finish a lot, it saves me from having to keep resetting my palate with crackers. This is the best pumpkin ale I’ve had, so far. It’s just like eating freshly baked pumpkin bread, as opposed to eating a handful of spices.

bottle. thanks bwkrieger. light apricot coloring with very thin head. great pumpkin pie aroma. rich and pumpkin pie. bready and nutmeg. wonderful pumpkin beer.

Pours a beautiful copper brown with finger thick off white head. Wonderful nose of pumkin pie filling and even crust. The flavor is the same, with perfect amounts of nutmeg and clove. Creamy mouthfeel.