Dogfish Head Punkin Ale

Brewed by Dogfish Head Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Milton, Delaware USA

Smell the cinnamon and spice but just beyond that there is a hint of wheat. They cover it well with this one and I am very impressed. Love the taste. Love the quick cinamon, nutmeg, pumpkin and gone taste. Taste like grandma’s pumpkin pie. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful.

I am not usually a fan of pumpkin, but this beer really found a nice balance between pumpkin, spice, and malt flavors.

Interesting beer - pours a very clear amber/orange, no cloudiness at all. Flavor is a mild one of pumpkin and brown sugar. Flavor has a nice initial tinge of the aroma and then seems to fiz out rather quickly. Tasty for what it is, but nothing I see myself being a regular drinker of.

This beer was not all I expected it to be. The flavor of spices and pumpkin are definetely there, but they taper off quickly and the flavor that is left is rather bland. The beer is dark amber with a light white head. The foundation of the beer seems to be lacking while the added flavors are good. This makes for a beer that is easily forgettable and slightly disappointing for such a great brewery. The foundation would benefit from a more complex base and some sort of connection between the initial flavor and aroma and what you taste after its gone.

Shocked how not good this beer was. Opened it on Thanksgiving. Taste of pumpkin pie spices on a bland ale with a squash and hop aftertaste.

Draught at the Freakin’ Frog. I expected this to be better honestly. Nice spice in the aroma and flavour but the seemed a little thin beyond that. On par with other pumpkin beers but short of something like ST Pumking.