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wortchillergoal
09-14-2008, 09:15 PM
This is a seasonal offering from Southern Tier. It is an imperial version of a pumpkin beer.

It pours an orangey gold color with a tight head of foam. The pumpkin shows in the nose to the point that I could not smell any hop. The pumpkin is strong in the taste all the way through from the front to the back. I find it to be very sticky sweet on the back side to the point of being too much so. I may have it slightly warmer that 40 degrees which may change the sweetness level.

From the bottle comes this information. It is a hefty 9% ABV. They used 2 row pale and caramel malts. The kettle hops are magnum and the aroma are sterling.

For my usual hockey twist I would say that this beer is like a questionable stick. I would only use it in a pick up game and not a league game.

beerking
09-14-2008, 09:24 PM
I have a bottle, which I have not gotten around to trying yet, but the Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin is quite good. Similar alcohol level, with a significant pumpkin character, but well balanced with some spices that play off the 8% alcohol quite nicely. I think they use some different spices than your typical pumpkin ale. Cardamom perhaps?

wortchillergoal
09-14-2008, 09:44 PM
The bottle did not list any spices. It only stated that they used pureed pumpkin.

ClockworkOrange
09-14-2008, 10:33 PM
wort, I haven't tried this years Pumking yet, but the flavor that really stood out to me with last years batch was the graham cracker crust.

mrtrav
09-16-2008, 11:47 PM
The best pumpkin ale out there is from Buffalo Bills of Hayward, CA. It tastes like they let the beer age in a pumpkin for a year. Simply amazing.

beerking
09-17-2008, 10:00 AM
The best pumpkin ale out there is from Buffalo Bills of Hayward, CA. It tastes like they let the beer age in a pumpkin for a year. Simply amazing.

Great beer, and I used to think it was the best also, but then I tried the New Holland Icabod.

TrojanAnteater
09-21-2008, 10:57 PM
I used to think Weyerbacher and Brooklyn were ok, then I tried The Bruery's new Autumn Maple.. 10.5% brewed with yams and the pumpkin pie spices. I have a bottle of ST Pumking here so I'm excited to see if it can match Autumn Maple.