Pumpkin Ale
Overall: 7.9/10 by 1 dude
Dudes: 7.9/10
Trend: 7.9/10 over past 5 reviews 
Style: Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
ABV: 6.10%
Seasonal: Fall
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- scot from Oswego, IL
- Date reviewed: Friday, November 11, 2011 at 20:44:08
- $0.00 for 22 oz. bottle
- 882 beers rated with a 7.8 average rating
Date tasted: November 11, 2011
Color: Orange
Rating Breakdown
Aroma: 8 (25%)
Taste: 7 (25%)
Look: 9 (15%)
Drinkability: 8 (35%)
Overall: 7.9
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Beer Notes
Bootlegger's Pumpkin Ale is our limited special release for Fall 2008. This beer is made by baking over 300 pounds (that's over 42 pounds per barrel!) of pure pumpkin until it is a rich golden brown. Cinnamon, nutmeg, molasses, and brown sugar were added to give this beer a rich pumpkin pie flavor and smooth finish. This is a perfect beer to sit back, relax and watch the leaves change color in fall.
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A vigorous pour brings out a third of a glass of white foam that is a touch stiff. Stiffening about as it recedes at a normal pace there is virtually no lacing throughout the drink.
Aroma is the typical pumpkin ale spices: nutmeg and cinnamon. Nice though - not over powering or conquering. Underlying sweetness comes to the top too.
Taste is well balanced. Sweetness, pumpkin, nutmeg, and cinnamon. The cinnamon blends with, possibly, hops in the finish to give off a strange flavor that lingered (this seem to ease the more I had). Taste up front is mild.
Light end of medium body with medium carbonation helps to hold up an otherwise light bodied beer. Dries the palate more than expected.
One of the better pumpkin beers that I have had: it isn't a huge spice bomb. I would have this again but from year to year. Enjoy!