This week we look at another Pumpkin Beer, Post Road Pumpkin Ale a Brooklyn Beer in disguise.
News
It seems that the maker of the iBeer application, an iPhone application simulates a beer pouring when you tilt the iPhone back, the beer appears to be drank, is suing Molson Coors. The applications creator is claiming loses of $12.5 million in damages because Molson Coors are using their knock-off to advertise their Carling Black label brand of beer. The breweries version, names i-Pint is free, which the iBeer application costs $2.99.
Post Road Pumpkin Ale
- So another week, another beer, and this week we will be going to Post Road Brewery…wait, there is no Post Road Brewery. This weeks beer is just really a Brooklyn Brewery beer in disguise!
- Brooklyn Brewery, a favorite of YNB, is located in, you guessed it, Brooklyn, New York. Once again, this beer is one brewed by Garret Oliver, the brewmaster that we may refer to quite a bit on this show.
- Post Road Pumpkin Ale weighs in at 5.0% abv is about a pretty average abv for this style.
- The story behind this beer, or at least so says the six pack holder, is that in the 18th Century, colonial Americans brewed wonderful and interesting ales using local ingredients. Although barley was the main ingredient, pumpkin was also often used. They were used for the spicy flavor, and spices.
- The beer is brewed with four types of malt, 2 types of hops, and apparently hundreds of pounds of pumpkin. I will be honest, it really didn’t taste like hundreds of pounds of pumpkins.
- This beer pours a medium orange, with a slightly off white head that tends to stick around for a couple seconds but not too long.
- The minute that you pour this beer you can smell it. The aroma is spicy to some degree, maybe some cinnamon and nutmeg, think about a slight pumpkin pie aroma. You really can’t smell any hops or citrus here at all.
- The taste is not as sweet as some of the other pumpkin ales that I have had, however you can tell that the spiciness is there. It is pretty balanced overall, with some bitterness on the end but there is some spiciness and not a ton of sweetness. I will say though that it doesn’t have a lot of mouth feel, however there is some pumpkin on the end with the aftertaste.
Next Week
So next week, if I can find it, will be Pump King from Southern Tier. I looked for it this week but could not seem to find any, but I do have one more place to look, so we will see!
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