Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale

Brewed by Weyerbacher Brewing Co.
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Easton, Pennsylvania USA

fine seasonal beer with real pumpkin flavor coming through. one of the best autumnal brews i’ve had this year

Dark reddish brwon color with a nice head. Aroma very pleasant, nice spicey pie aroma. Taste much lighter than I expected and than I remember from previous seasons. Good body. Sweet taste with a little bitterness. More aroma then flavor. A little alcohol but not as strong as I hoped for this brew.

Murky brown pour, small white head. Aroma is cinnamon and pumpkin. Flavor is a touch of pumpkin, caramel, a slight chocolate touch, cinnamon and nutmeg. Hoppy aftertaste. Flavor is a little muted on the pumpkin and should be more flavorful.

deep amber, velvety thick light tan head. winter spice aroma of cinnamon, ginger, pumpkin, malt. Flavor somewhat carbonated up front. Surprisingly, the spice flavors dominate the flavor with the cinnamon and cardamom coming through. Actually, otherwise quite thin. Nice mild bitter and of course spicy finish.

Beautiful aroma, spicy, w/cinnamon, and baked pie notes. Color is standard hazy orange, yet it is an attractive appearance. Flavor is strange, the baked pie and cinnamon/cloves/nutmeg are all there, but are fainter than expected, and vanish quickly. Spicy on the palate at the finish, and it’s here you pick up even the slightest trace of the 8% abv. Great beer, however. Beers like this are what make me look forward to fall. Overall, a good pumkin ale.

22 Oz Bottle. Fluctuating delightful minty spice, with herabacous florals rolled into an Indian botique. Piquant and with potpourri, blessed in spiced delight. Mulled. Pours a very clear deeply hued orange, with a rim of silken fresh whipped cream and vanilla. Flavor develops more complex notes of the spices, over a backing of wheat oils, warming alcohols, fruit flesh, and growing cinnamon singularity. Toothy, yet dry and yielding. Wonderful spice character. As clean and revealing as I could hope for. Edging towards a saison distinction, but holding onto that particular Pumpkin Pie Spice clade of flavors, backed with a bit of vegetal background and a nice leafy hop finish. Alcohols play really well and a few unique yeast esters pop in to play with the spices. Excellent stuff. An awesome fall beer, with everything doing well.

22. Thanks, FranksnBeans! Pours a deep dark copper with a thickish, moussy, off-white head. Deep cloves and pie spice notes on the nose. Medium body, light carb, and sweet, pie spicey, clovey attack. Rich but not cloying body on the mid-palate; this one holds its own and goes down in a fairly straightforward spicey finish. There are a few fairly clean pumpkin beers and this is definitely one of them.

12 oz. bottle. Amber pour. Aroma promises nutmeg, cinnamon, pumpkin. Flavor teases you with the same but does not fully deliver, very subdued flavors immediately, but then they disappear.