Beer review – America’s Original Pumpkin Ale
America’s Original Pumpkin Ale is a pleasant, easy to drink pumpkin and spice beer whose flavors key more on pumpkin pie spices than actual pumpkin flavor.
Pumpkin Ale is brewed by Pyramid Brewing Co. of Seattle, Washington, for Buffalo Bill’s Brewery of Hayward, Calif.
Pumpkin Ale pours a light orange with a short, quick-to-collapse light tan head. Its aroma is nutmeg with faint undernotes of floral hops and pumpkin.
Nutmeg leads the flavor parade at the front of the tongue and quickly gives way to floral hop flavors.
Light pumpkin flavors emerge at mid-tongue as well as some very light brown sugar sweetness.
Notes of allspice and mace show at the back of the throat.
Malt flavors in this beer are light and mostly show as caramel flavors that emerge through the beer’s spice flavor profile. Hops barely show in this ale, mostly as floral and pine flavors at the back of the throat.
I consider this beer 5.2% alcohol by volume beer to be light bodied and light to medium flavored. If you enjoy pumpkin pie, you will probably enjoy this brew. It was purchased at the HyVee Wine and Spirits’ Hamilton Blvd. location in Sioux City, Iowa.
-Tim Hynds
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October 19th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
To say “if you enjoy pumpkin pie, you will probably enjoy this brew” is rediculous. That’s like saying to a teacher that because they really like apples that they’ll enjoy hard cider. Pyramid used to be a microbrewery, but not any longer. If you like seasonal ale, try a Windmere…or a Deschutes. Oh wait…that would require you to travel because you cannot get these awesome breweries in SC. Do yourself a “flavor…” Purchase a plane ticket to Portland, Ore., and hang in the Pearl District the entire time.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I’d recommend DFH’s Punkin Ale