Notes on Post Road Pumpkin Ale

Label: "In the 18th century colonial Americans brewed wonderful and interesting ales by using local ingredients. Pumpkins were favored by brewers for their rich spicy flavors, which molded perfectly with malted barley. Brooklyn Brewery gives you Post Road Pumpkin Ale, a delicious rendition of this New England classic."

Beer shop pal loved this beer and fall is his season-- he even made his own butternut squash brew in lieu of pumpkin this year-- I will defer to his enthusiasm for this beer and more sophisticated palate.

Post Road Pumpkin Ale

Notes on Punk'n

If you like this you'll enjoy Dogfish Head's pumpkin offering.

Floats you gently upon a raft of flavors. One sips recalling last spring in Paris or finding a sweaty noodle dive in Tokyo after a day of gallery hunting. It compliments the day but does not coronate it.

Balances well with a sweet snack like granola.

PUNK'N

Notes on Shipyard Pumpkinhead

The bright side of a gingerbread house in terms of sweetness but I add that note cautiously; the sweetness is polite, it does not intrude upon the palate. Hints of pumpkin pie are fleeting and refreshing.

As the evening turned to night I mused that within this brew one can discover un aller simple (one way ticket) to pumpkin paradise. 

SHIPYARD PUMKINHEAD

Notes on Smutty Nose Pumpkin Ale

Definitely a beer I would drink again. Sophisticated balance between weakness and strength. The sweetness dances comfortably between that of a bagel and a doughnut. Gently thirst quenching.

Pleasantly carbonated with a brown sugar pumpkin fizz. Not a bad post-coital refreshment.