Schlafly Pumpkin Ale
A full-bodied, deep reddish amber beer made with pumpkin and butternut squash and spiced with nutmeg, clove and cinnamon. Celebrate the bounty of harvest with this rich, malty ale and invoke the season of plenty.
3.7
534 reviews
St. Louis, United States
Community reviews
Sampled on tap, orange color with a medium foamy head. Notes are pumpkin guts, spices, vegetal, cinnamon, and clove especially as it warms up. Lighter to medium body with similar carbonation. Alright, nose was much better than flavor.
Bottle from Total Wine in Palo Alto, CA. Aroma is sweet potato pie, fall spices. Taste is balanced malty pumpkin pie. Really lives up to the hype. Phyllis Schlafly eat your heart out!
Bomber. Pours a dark orange with a dissipating head and aroma of pumpkin pie spices. Taste is full of fall spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspices notes into the sweet finish.
Pours a very dark bronze color with a tiny beige head and poor retention. No lacing. Strong spiced aroma. Similar flavor. Spice-dominated flavor with very little actual pumpkin flavor. A nice change-up from regular beer, but too heavily spiced for regular consumption. Noticeable boozy warmth in the finish.
At home, bomber with the boys. Pours a dark pumpkin color with no head. Pour a dark pumpkin rusted color. Nose is deep spicy sweet pumpkin with autumn spices. Taste is sweet sugary pumpkin with a myriad of ‘ autumn spices’. Finishes on the sweet pumpkin notes... a nice sipper..
Quaff Score 8 / 10
A pumpkin beer. Not a sickeningly sweet pumpkin beer, not a wickedly over-spiced pumpkin beer, but a pumpkin beer just the same, with all the baggage that comes with it. One day I'll learn and just give up on the style, but, dammit, Paste said this bottle was good. I disagree.
A malt-head's delight from a long-time St. Louis crafter whose product, I regret, I drink too little of. Schlafly captures the season well. It looks like a dark red maple leaf right before it is so dry it falls off the tree. It smells of the season's spices and, separating itself from the growing pack of pumpkins, Schlafly's does not have an artificial taste. Just sits rich in the mouth like a balanced dessert.
Draught @ Pilsener Haus. Reddish amber with foamy beige head, light pumpkin aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter roasted pumpkin taste, smooth body, long pumpkin finish. Very good pumpkin beer.
Truly one of the finest pumpkin ales out there, deceptively big at 8% abv. Perfectly balanced spice that doesn’t dissolve the pumpkin flavors. Look forward to it being tapped here every year!
For me, the sweetness is almost overwhelming. Rating above average given the complexity of all the different flavors - nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, even a touch of mace as well as some vanilla notes. The pumpkin really comes through and not a fake pumpkin flavor. Careful . . . this one will sneak up on you at 8% abv which is hiding behind the sweetness.
Pours a dark color. Mahogany perhaps? Half finger khaki head. Poor retention, poor lacing.
Aroma is heavy on nutmeg and cinnamon. Combined smells a lot like licorice. Malty.
Taste is rich. Pretty heavy on spices but not too much. Pretty good.
Mouthfeel is medium bodied. Smooth, creamy. Pretty nice.
Overall, one of the best pumpkin beers I’ve had. It has a different mouthfeel than most, but something about it I don’t like, can’t quite put my finger on it. I would recommend it but I wouldn’t buy it again.
On tap at Schafly Bottleworks, pours a clear dark orange amber, almost no head. Aroma is loaded with pumpkin purée, and very little of the usual pumpkin spices. Flavour is along the same lines, with lots of pumpkin purée upfront, but then there is indeed some nutmeg and cinnamon that kick in. Quite robust, yet tasteful and balanced. A nice pumpkin ale.
Smells like pumpkin, obviously, with clove and nutmeg. Redish/ brown in color with a frothy head. Just medium in sweetness, not overdone. Medium body, average carbonation. I'm not a fan of pumpkin and cinnamon, but this is one of the better of the style
Probably our favorite pumpkin beer outside of Pumpking. The pumpkin tastes real, not artificial. Wonderful blend of spices that screams out fall.
Reviewed on A Brew With You, Ep. 106
Bottle from Beers of the World. Aroma of pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove.
interesting in that it starts out a pumpkin spice kind of thing seemingly lighter in the body because of the appreciable volume of spice to include nutmeg and cinnamon. Then a nice pumpkin component comes in with a fullness and bit of vanilla and kind of like an egg custard which is just charming. of course the fact that it retains an adequate beer like character just completes in my mind the truth that it is an above average beer.
Draft @ Pizzeria Paradiso- Pours clear orange brown. Sweet, clove, nutty, and pumpkin. Nice!
This beer is pretty damn close to being a perfect pumpkin ale. I've had others that were either too much like candy, or just not enough pumpkin and/or spice. This beer is very well balanced. Love it!
On tap, deep amber brew with orangish heavy head, very strong spices, pumpkin pie on steriods, I like it, but it's a once a year thing as I search for the next best thing . Avaible in 1/6 or 1/2 barrel
Poured a copper to brown color with off white head. A nice spiced aroma. Herbaceous, squash like flavor and moderately strong pie spice character...this come close to overpowering without overstepping.
Notes: on tap at the St. Louis Airport, Sep '17
12 oz bottle to tulip. Pours deep red brown, frothy tan head. Aroma of huge nutmeg, clove, pumpkin spice, cinnamon. Taste of same with lots of spice and just a tinge of sweet malt to balance. A little bit of boozy heat in finish. Mouthfeel is thick syrupy, good carb.
Well spiced, compared to some other pumpkin ales. Good balance of hops, malt, pumpkin, and spice.
Bottle with commonmac during March madness. Dark reddish copper with thick white head and good lacing. Really good strong pumpkin spice aroma with underlying alcohol. Taste is heavy in spice , especially nutmeg and sugar. Sweet and sticky. Has good body, almost like it had real pumpkin in it. Alcohol presence heavier than most pumpkin ales. Alcohol could have been hidden better, and a bit of off balance, but very good. Glad I took a schlaflyer on this one. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
12oz bottle shared by commonshawn and purchased by Qponnagy. Pours an eye-pleasing copper/well-lit amber with a quarter finger eggshell white head. Aroma of pumpkin pie spices potent enough to fill the nose from afar. Cinnamon and nutmeg seem to be at the forefront. Taste struggles to fulfill the expectations brought about by the aroma but the pumpkin spices are still prevalent. Slightly thin mouthfeel but the alcohol presence makes you take notice. There is a malty/bready quality playing a role as well. Finish does make you think you’ve just eaten a piece of pumpkin pie soaked in alcohol. Probably exactly what Schlafly was attempting to execute. For people who enjoy this style, I think this should be a must try.
Pours a reddish chestnut brown with aroma of nutmeg, cinnamon, and pumpkin. Pumpkin flavor with nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove spicey flavor. Very nice.
12 oz. bottle. Pour was maroon/brown, foamy off white head. Aroma was pumpkin spice, nutmeg, clove. Taste was sweet, pumpkin flavor, pumpkin pie spices.
Pours dark amber color, clear, and effervescent with a very small head. Smells full of nutmeg, pumpkin, malty, cinnamon. The flavor starts out with the pumpkin, nutmeg, and some light maltiness followed by an aftertaste of pumpkin pie with just a little bitterness of alcohol.
Bottle from J’s. Pours a clear copper with a half finger of foam that dissipates quickly. Big cinnamon and nutmeg notes. A bit Belgian in flavor and aromas. Light on the palate with some clove and Belgian yeast notes. Hides the abv well.
Thanks Steve.
This was poured into a becher pint glass.
The appearance was a dark amber/red/brown color with a mild concave lacing on the sides. No head. Carbonation could be seen rising.
The aroma balances absolutely awesome between the pumpkin sweet flesh to the spices of allspice, ginger and cinnamon.
The flavor, once again, has an incredible balance between the malts and the spices. Some pie crust, but subtle. Pumpkin flesh aftertaste. No finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a great sessionability. Spices just end up blending so well that they don’t even emit any harshness on my tongue.
Overall, damn nice pumpkin ale that I would love to have again.
Nice thin white head accompanied by a mild spiced aroma. Flavor is herbs, spices, and mild pumpkin Body is medium/creamy with a carbonated kick.