Schadenfreude - Parallel 49 Brewing Company

CrazyMike

Alberta (Canada)

4.08/5  rDev -4.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Golden amber appearance with a small amount of foamy amber head which slowly settles down leaving some lacing. Smells like pumpkin pie; sugar, ginger, various spices, bread and a hint of malt. Good first impressions.

Taste is similar to the smell, tastes like I’m eating pumpkin pie. Consists of malt, ginger, bread and bitter hops. Tastes blends well together. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finish is an earthy, slightly butter, pumpkin taste.

Overall, this is a good and interesting season beer that mixes the features of a pumpkin beer and an Oktoberfest. Not a typical beer by any stretch, try it while you can.

Serving type: bottle

10-12-2012 02:11:04 | More by CrazyMike

Danielbt

Texas

5/5  rDev +16.6%

05-14-2013 20:12:38 | More by Danielbt

smekermann

British Columbia (Canada)

4.25/5  rDev -0.9%

02-08-2013 08:04:12 | More by smekermann

joemcgrath27

Alberta (Canada)

4.33/5  rDev +0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

A - bright clear bronze, thumb of head held nicely, left plenty of lacing
S - mild raw pumpkin and spice, some toasty and leafy aroma in the back end
T - an interesting mix of pumpkin, nutmeg, rich toffee, nutty, and mild leafiness, this really does capture key elements of both styles and blends them well
M - medium and relatively creamy, very smooth with a light spice tingle
O - very happy with this brew, doesn't fall into the common pumpkin pitfall of spice overload, blends the pumpkin into the marzen style seamlessly, and there is a richness that makes it almost dessert like

Serving type: bottle

11-04-2012 00:19:14 | More by joemcgrath27

wordemupg

Alberta (Canada)

4.03/5  rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

341ml bottle poured into pint glass 1/11/12

A clear light bronze with a few tiny particles and a couple streams of bubbles, a short lived thumbs width of foam leaves no lace

S nutmeg, allspice, vanilla a little pumpkin with some brown sugar and faint nutty notes, everything's very strong it smells the part quite well

T more of the same really, perhaps a little ginger and some earthy leafy notes, I'm getting board of pumpkin brews but this one's pretty good

M light and it fluffs up quickly and flattens out just as fast, the finish is faint but long

O it is what it is and its good, pumpkin beers are all starting to mesh together and taste the same, nothing really to set it apart other then the intense smell

Its a good version but perhaps my last of the season, I like it for what it is but I'm just board of the style talk to me again next year

Serving type: bottle

11-02-2012 05:35:15 | More by wordemupg

LampertLand

British Columbia (Canada)

4.23/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Parallel 49 "Schadenfreude" a Pumpkin/Oktoberfest @ 5.0% , originally tasted from a cask at the GCBF , this review from a couple of 341 ml bottle's , from a 6pack that wasn't very easy to find ,
A-pours a light burnt orange , with a small off white head that quickly dissapates leaving some thin lace along the stein
S-mild pumpkin pie spices , more oktoberfest malts
T-definate sweetness to this malty lager
MF-mild carbonation , medium body
Ov-great combination of the two styles , the pumpkin flavor is more noticeable in Schadenfreude than Lost Souls , both are good decent Fall beers from Parallel 49 , I like how most reviewers agree "IF" you can find it , try it , a hard to find beer

Cheers LampertLand

Serving type: bottle

10-27-2012 18:44:35 | More by LampertLand

zduerr

British Columbia (Canada)

4/5  rDev -6.8%

10-25-2012 19:55:25 | More by zduerr

canucklehead

British Columbia (Canada)

4.23/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Perfect marriage of the crispness of the lager style (albeit with the malty goodness of the marzen style ) with the baking spice notes of the Pumpkin beer. Lovely shining dark gold colour with a real Pumpkin aroma on the nose. The beer is super drinkable but has some complexity in the finish with the pumpkin smoothly combining with the malt. Love what these guys are doing.

Serving type: bottle

10-20-2012 00:53:40 | More by canucklehead

leaddog

Alberta (Canada)

4.23/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Appearance- Pours a copper orange with a finger width of bubbly off white head.

Smell- Pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, breadiness.

Taste- Immediately hit by the pumpkin and the spices. Definitely tastes like pumpkin pie. It is followed by the breadiness and slight earthy hops. Finishes mainly with the spices.

Mouthfeel- Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Has a dry finish.

Overall- A very flavourful pumpkin oktoberfest by Parallel 49. Well balanced pumpkin and spice flavours that remind you of Thanksgiving and the fall season. Defnitely pick this one up if your a fan of the style.

Serving type: bottle

10-15-2012 03:34:41 | More by leaddog

ChuckGnarly

British Columbia (Canada)

4.75/5  rDev +10.7%

10-12-2012 23:35:52 | More by ChuckGnarly

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

4.03/5  rDev -6.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

3431ml bottle.

This beer pours a clear, pale golden amber colour, with one finger of thinly foamy ecru head, which leaves a low rocky shoreline of lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.

It smells very much like my mom's gingerbread cookies - which of course were replete with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and a whack of brown sugar, here well represented by a sturdy sweet bready malt, and the attendant zingy spices, with a slight earthy hoppiness striving to bring things back to the realm of normal beerdom. The taste is more malty than anything as yet, a bready, pastry like sort, with the usual suspect spice components more timid as well, but still quite prevalent, with a noble hop bitterness closing the loop.

The bubbles are fairly placid, the body medium-light, barely (on the north side) in weight, and tacitly smooth. It finishes on the sweet side - pumpkin flesh, bready malt, and that very particular side of the spices showing their colours.

A deft, nicely rendered blend of seasonal pumpkin spices and an Okotoberfest lager, killing two birds with one stone at this time of year, as it were. It's pleasant to see that it's no surprise that the former holds sway throughout the vast majority of this affair, as this is tasty enough that I pine for another.

Serving type: bottle

09-29-2012 03:45:21 | More by biboergosum