Post Road Pumpkin Ale

This 5.0% ABV ale brewed with pumpkin and spices is from the Brooklyn Brewery listed on the bottle as in Utica, New York (which would indicate they are having some of their beers contract brewed at the Saranac-Matt Brewing Company). The original Brooklyn Brewery is in, well, Brooklyn.

According to the bottle: In the 18th Century, colonial Americans brewed wonderful and interesting ales by using local ingredients. Pumpkins were favored by brewers for their rich and spicy flavors, which melded perfectly with malted barley.

The beer pours a deep amber, dark copper in color.  There is nearly an inch of thick and creamy off-white head.  The aroma is malted grain with some pumpkin and spices, a light whiff of fresh pumpkin pie cooling on a window as one walks by on a crisp fall day.  The taste follows the aroma, a solid grain based amber lager topped lightly by pumpkin pie, with a moderately bitter finish.