BE: Nose: Like a pumpkin candle (oh wait, that still may be the cake baking!) Taste: like the bud light of pumpkin beers. I’d drink it if no other beers were available, but I would not buy it for a pumpkin beer
Shocktop Pumpkin Unfiltered Wheat
SL: Nose: Vanilla, brown sugar, pie, orange. Taste: Orange, wheat overpowers everything, like drinking fruit juice, grassy. Does not taste anything like pumpkin. Overall: Nothing special, treat yourself to a better belgian wit and sit this on the bench for the season, or drink it after you mow the lawn!
MS: Nose: Citrus (organe) with faint pumpkin. Taste: Zesty citrus, where’s the pumpkin? Lemony. Overall: more like a belgian wit, needs a slice of orange
BE: Nose: Like fresh pumpkin pie. Taste: this is the corona of pumpkin beers. Could drink all day while laying on the beach or in a pile of fresh fallen leaves
Lakefront Pumpkin Lager
SL: Nose: Best nose I’ve ever smelled on a pupmkin beer! Smells like pumpkin ice cream and nutmeg. Taste: session beer, very nice (and I normally hate lager!), sweet, could pair with dessert, nice balance of spice. YUMMMY! It’s a real treat!
MS: Nose: cinnamon, nutmeg, warms the nostrils, apple cider spice. Taste: Good body, cinnamon and nutmeg, dry finish, pumpkin too! Great beer!
BE: Nose: Best smelling pumpkin beer. Taste: Like I dug my hand into a pumpkin and ate a ball of the slimy filling. Good stuff!
Overall Comparison
Oddly enough, the three of us had the same overall votes unanimously!
1. Lakefront Pumpkin Lager 2. Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale 3. Dogfish Head Punkin Ale 4. Shocktop Pumpkin Wheat
