Nickel Brook Pumpkin

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Enjoyed a pint at Arrow & Loon on cask, and under the name Pi-eyed Pumpkin. Pours a pretty hazy amber colour with lots of tiny particles, spices floating around. Foamy beige head that surprisingly stays quite a long time, with decent lacing. Lots of pumpkin in the aromas with some nice spices. Again, the pumpkin in the taste is pretty strong, over the spices with some decent hops, grassy notes lingering. Pretty nice real-pumpkin ale with the spices well-blended. Worth it on cask.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Bottle samples from the brewery: Poured a light amber-orange beer in the glass, Fair puffy sticky white cap lasted well and laced. Aroma was very pleasant...roasted pumpkin , spice- cinnamon, nutmeg, all spice....some earthiness...distinct pumpkin pie aroma without being over bearing. Flavor follows aroma in being proportionally correct…..spices malts and roasty/herbaceous pumpkin hit the palate up front but all in pleasing proportion, some hop bittering appears as it finishes and the finish goes lightly dry with a pumpkin spice and hop kiss at the end. All in all one of the most approachable pleasant pumpkin beers I’ve tasted and certainly one you can drink more than one of without collapsing your palate on spice overload. Well-crafted seasonal from a solid local micro brewer.