Wall Street Journal talks pumpkin ales (video)
A brewer I know says that if you can taste a single ingredient in a beer, there’s too much of it. Beer is a tippy boat: paddle too hard and it flops into the deep. Belgian wheat beers are regular offenders, tasting occasionally like coriander or orange-peel soup. With pumpkin beers, the opposite happens. Few are one-note—no nutmeg soup here—but their pumpkin-pie potpourri can be even more intense than a single, overemphasized spice. Call it the Candle Shoppe Gestalt: The blend of scents is worse than any individual offender.
via the Wall Street Journal.
Wow I couldn’t disagree more with reviews of pumpkin beer more than this video/article. I buy a pumpkin beer and I expect it to taste like pumpkin yet the reviewer is someone that doesn’t like spice in his beer! He shouldn’t be reviewing this on this national stage then… Go find someone else that actually likes pumpkin because that’s like a vegetarian doing reviews on steak houses.
I don’t like a particular style that much, but I’m going to review it anyway?