Wild Goose Pumpkin Patch

Brewed by Wild Goose LLC (Flying Dog)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Frederick, Maryland USA

Bottle sampled. Pours a clear deep orange with a small off-white head. Aroma of spices, pumpkin, and alcohol. the flavor is sweet, pumpkin, spices galore, and finishes with slight traces of detectable hops.

Very sim iliar to brooklyn’s pumpkin ale. You could definately taste the pumpkin in the brew.

Orange color looked good in my Bengals glass. Slightly bittersweet taste with a tad bit of pumpkin. Small head. Aroma reminds me of nutmeg.

Clear Orange, decent sized white head. Thin, faint aroma of cinnamon and allspice. The same components are in the flavor, as well. Mild crisp bitterness in the finish.

I’m a big fan of pumpkin beers, but this one didn’t do much for me. Very subtle flavor of pumpkin, a little too subtle.

Pours with a frothy, though meek at only half a finger in thickness, tan colored head that sits atop a lightly hazy, reddish amber colored brew. As I pour this I get a light vegetal note that I associate with pumpkin, plus some intermingling nutmeg notes. Upon further inspection I find that the aroma leans towards sweet, with caramelized notes and accentuating sweet spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. The sweet aromatics almost take on a fruity character, but not so much that I can pull out anything specific. The sweet spices are really what is accentuated here (though they are certainly on the subtle side for your typical pumpkin beer) as I don’t get much of any ginger character.

The taste is a touch drier than the aroma would suggest, but it still has a soft sweetness to it. As in the aroma the spices are fairly subtle, they mainly serve to accentuated the other flavors here, though they do add quite a bit to the flavor as well. There is actually a touch of pumpkin flavor here as well, it is in the background and much more subtle than the spices, but provides a sort of fleshy squash / vegetal note here. This has a medium heft to it, just enough to make it a touch chewy, but not enough to get in the way of what is really just a quaffable brew. This is one of the better pumpkin brews out there, it was not too heavy handed with the spices, which is a huge plus, and it had just enough body & sweetness to carry the spices that it does have.

Nothing much going on here... not quite the fan of this pumpkin beer. Definately much more character than Shipyard’s which is appreciated.

Nothing much going on here. Doesn’t impress my palate... not quite the fan of the pumpkin’s. Definately much more character than Shipyard’s which is much appreciated. O.K. for what it is.