Pumking - Southern Tier Brewing Company

TJBAIHWL

Virginia

4.25/5  rDev +3.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Poured from a 22oz bomber. The bottle suggested a goblet, so into the Chimay glass it went.

Pours a copper color with an orange tinge that already suggests pumpkin. Big but short-lived head, slightly off-white. The aroma is massively pumpkin-y. The aroma is spicy as well, the pumpkin and additional spices blending with spicy hops. The taste follows suit. I'm going to go ahead and declare this the best pumpkin beer I've had this year. Pumpkin (meat, not spice) dominates this beer. There's that great vegetable sweetness, and if I'm not mistaken, there's some caramel as well. Unlike many pumpkin beers, the spice here takes much more of a supporting role, rounding out the sweetness and serving as an effective substitute for bitter hops to clean up the finish. Sweetness does linger a bit, but believe me, that's a good thing. It stays very drinkable throughout, with no hint of the rather hefty alcohol content. I regret waiting until so late in the season to try this one. It really exemplifies what a pumpkin beer should be.

Serving type: bottle

11-07-2010 02:10:01 | More by TJBAIHWL

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