While this one might taste rewarding at first, it becomes increasingly harder to drink as it warms and the artificial taste begins to grate. In theory, and often in practice, they are much more complex and interesting than that. Pumpkin beers should not be treated like fruit beers. This is why people rarely describe soda as "complex" or write blogs reviewing it. And while artificial flavoring is great at achieving a difficult taste that just doesn't want to stick, it leads to that flavor being one-dimensional, overly sweet and blandly sugary. But in any case, this beer tastes like it was flavored with artificial pumpkin flavor, rather than the usual combo of vegetable matter + spices. Then it hit me: UFO Pumpkin tastes an awful lot like the terrible Kennebunkport Pumpkin I found at Trader Joe's last year, which used pumpkin flavored syrup to enhance the "pumpkin." Now, I don't know for sure that this is what UFO has done - not having any behind-the-scene's access, I can only guess based on my tastebuds. (Admittedly, that doesn't sound terrible in theory. It doesn't make you work to notice the pumpkin - something that would otherwise be fine, but it also doesn't taste all that much like beer, so it's a bit like drinking pumpkin soda. Whatever it was/is, it's just too sweet for me, and it seems like a weird attempt to make a more mass-market, fruit-beer pumpkin ale with a very specific and unimaginative flavor profile. Initially I thought maybe there was lactose sugar in it, but there still seemed to be something else that that wouldn't explain. This beer was too sweet and singular and specific in its taste. The flavors seemed like they should be appealing, since I do love pumpkin so much, but something was off. It has a noticeable, firm pumpkin flavor that many pumpkin beers lack - I'd even call it a very clear taste well defined and unwavering.
And on the surface, it seems like this one should be fine. I passed it around my table of seasoned beer drinkers, and to my surprise, they all said they thought it was fine. Granted, this beer isn't awful, and it took me a while to figure out what was bugging me about it. I took a sip and immediately knew something was wrong here. (It's kind of my thing.) The smell was good. As it's a brand new pumpkin beer, I was contractually obligated to order it. I had this on tap at Hop Devil Bar in Manhattan. I just don't think this is one of them.įirst of all, I'm getting annoyed with this trend of breweries releasing their pumpkin beers well before fall.
See the Introduction to Specialty-Type Beer section for additional comments, particularly on evaluating the balance of added ingredients with the base beer.I like you Harpoon, I do. See Category 29 for a definition and examples of fruit. Any combination of allowable ingredients may also be entered. Flavorful fermentable sugars and syrups (e.g., agave nectar, maple syrup, molasses, sorghum, treacle, honey) or sweeteners (e.g., lactose) can be included only in combination with other allowable ingredients, and should not have a dominant character. It does not include culinary fruit or grains. This category explicitly includes all culinary spices, herbs, and vegetables, as well as nuts (or anything with ‘nut’ in the name, including coconut), chile peppers, coffee, chocolate, spruce tips, rose hips, hibiscus, fruit peels/zest (but not juice), rhubarb, and the like. Vegetables can include some botanical fruit. Vegetables are savory or less sweet edible plant products, used primarily for cooking or sometimes eating raw. Herbs are leafy plants or parts of plants (leaves, flowers, petals, stalks) used for flavoring food. In general, spices are the dried seeds, seed pods, fruit, roots, bark, etc.
We use the common or culinary definitions of spices, herbs, and vegetables, not botanical or scientific ones. Style Guidelines Appendices and References.
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