Pumpkin Beer Taste Test 2006

Sucking the Fun Out of Drinking, With Science!

Judge Kir
Kirsten is having a baby (but wasn't a year ago when this tasting occured).
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.

Kir 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 3 6 4 5 7 8 5 6 5 5 6 5 4
Sip 2 6 2 4 4 6 4 3 4 4 5 4 5
In Mouth 1 5 2 3 3 6 4 3 4 3 3 4 3
Swallow 2 4 2 3 2 5 2 2 3 3 3 4 3
Aftertaste 1 3 2 2 3 5 1 2 3 3 2 3 3
Repeat 1 4 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 3 2
Memories 1 5 2 2 5 5 5 1 2 2 2 2 2
Overall 2 6 3 4 4 7 3 3 3 4 3 5 3
Pumpkinosity 2 7 4 4 3 8 6 2 5 3 2 4 6
Enjoyment 1 6 2 3 2 5 3 2 3 3 2 3 3
Beerishness 4 6 6 4 5 6 5 4 4 5 4 4 4
Slugability 1 3 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
Comments yucky Reminds me of pumpkin pie in a can mixed with beer very flat and light It looks and smells like it would taste better than it does Fizzy and weird. Pretty pumpkiny but bitter distinct spicy but empty beer taste nondescript A slightly better version than "G" I think that I just don't like pumpkin beer. double-yuck good spices, but bitter TGIF Thank God I'm Finished
Hints of crap Beer and pumpkin molasses but not enough honey smell without the honey taste stale spices clove light beer with old abc gum sitting in it nothingness spice and ginger-ale with baking soda too much pumpkin beer household cleaner stomach acid Completion

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