A little late to the Pumpkin Beer party this year but my wife and I were also a little late celebrating Halloween. We were out of town the weekend of all hallows eve so this past weekend we decided to carve our pumpkins, watch some horror movies and crack open this brew.
I had picked it this bottle of Smashed Pumpkin a few months back when we had visited the Shipyard Brewery up in Portland Maine. It had just been released and we actually had a chance to sample last year’s batch in the tasting room. Good people those folks up at Shipyard. They made me feel pretty. But not in a dirty way.
Anyway the beer, we’re here to talk about the beer and not how dynamite I look today. Which by the way I do, the t-shirt is clean after all. In short I love this beer. Next to Southern Tier’s Pumking this might be my favorite pumpkin beer out there. It’s nice and smooth where a lot of beers go overboard on the spices. How they hide the 9% ABV I have no idea but they do, very well. A good amount of malt in the taste also which I think works well with the spice. Nothing crazy or out there going on here, unless of course you count the fact that you’re going to be a little tipsy by the end, just an awesome straight forward pumpkin beer. Drink it, now!
