Pumpkin Beer Taste Test 2006

Sucking the Fun Out of Drinking, With Science!

Judge Julie
Julie is a Student from Philadelphia.

The table below shows how this judge rated each beer in blind taste-tests. To see what other judges thought of the beers, click the beer's name.

Julie Blue Moon Saranac Pumpkin Patch Alpenhoff Buffalo Bill's Weyenbach Sea Dog Jack's Pumpkin Spice Shipyard Post Rd Smuttynose Dogfish Head The Mix
Smell 6 8 4 8 6 7 4 2 7 8 7 8 8
Sip 6 7 6 8 5 8 5 6 7 8 6 3 8
In Mouth 7 6 7 8 6 9 5 4 6 8 5 3 8
Swallow 6 7 7 6 6 7 6 5 7 7 4 2 6
Aftertaste 6 6 4 5 7 8 5 4 8 7 7 0 7
Repeat 6 7 8 7 5 8 4 4 8 8 5 3 8
Memories 5 8 7 6 8 8 4 4 7 6 bad 4 8
Overall 6 7 6 8 4 9 4 5 8 8 4 2 8
Pumpkinosity 4 3 2 5 1 3 7 3 8 5 3 2 6
Enjoyment 5 7 6 8 4 9 4 5 8 8 3 3 8
Beerishness 8 4 7 8 5 8 8 7 7 7 8 4 6
Slugability 5 6 7 7 8 4 9 5 8 6 0 1 6
Comments Not Great; Not much flavor of either beer or pumpkin. Very Cinnamon-y and clove-y, pleasant, kindof cidery. Tasted of ice-cream(?); more ale-like than beer-like. Nicely Hoppy, Spice Flavors went well with beer/pumpkin flavor. Taste was kindof bizarre; not pumpkin-y at all. Excellent! Complex flavor, very enjoyable. Fake pumpkin taste - not very enjoyable. Eh, not great, not terrible Good - nice hit of spices on the tongue. Very Nice Flavor Super Bad Aftertaste! I hate this beer. Good, Solid, Beer.
Hints of dookie? baking cake/cookies. smells like peanuts Mulling spices. beach-house! Seriously. Like cedar and salt air. Woodsiness. fakiness Boringness spices hay evil malevolence Nothing stands out.

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Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Process and Procedures
Part 3: Tasting Parameters
Part 4: Results
Part 5: Conclusions