Pumpkin Beer Taste Test 2006

Sucking the Fun Out of Drinking, With Science!

THE MIX
The Mix was a dirty trick where I poured the leftovers from the extra bottles into a pitcher and mixed it up before serving to people. I did this to get a baseline for how accurate people's opinions were, and also to try to get people to focus on the other beers, in case they wanted to rush through the final beer just to be done with the tasting. Many were quite sick of tasting by this point and it shows in the comments.

The Mix was described as 'decent' and 'nothing stands out', which makes sense given that it's just the slightly warmed remnants of the other brews.

The table below shows how this beer fared with each of our judges. To see what a judge thought of other beers, click the judge's name.

THE MIX Julie Shauna Mark Esther Chriswillie Michelle Matt Kimon Patty Brian Kir Nathan Steven Averages
Smell 8 5 2 2 0 5 7 7 7 5 4 6 8 5.1
Sip 8 5 3 9 4 5 6 7 7 1 5 5 7 5.5
In Mouth 8 5 3 8 5 5 5 8 8 1 3 4 6 5.3
Swallow 6 5 2 9 4 5 6 6 7 1 3 5 7 5.1
Aftertaste 7 5 2 10 2 5 7 7 6 1 3 4 5 4.9
Repeat 8 5 5 10 5 5 7 7 7 3 2 6 5 5.8
Memories 8 5 2 5 6 5 6 6 1 0 2 5 0 3.9
Overall 8 5 4 9 5 5 6 7 7 1 3 5 6 5.5
Pumpkinosity 6 5 3 10 2 2 5 8 2 4 6 6 9 5.2
Enjoyment 8 5 4 10 5 8 6 8 6 1 3 6 6 5.8
Beerishness 6 5 5 1 7 8 6 7 6 2 4 7 7 5.5
Slugability 6 5 5 10 5 0 6 6 6 1 2 5 3 4.6
Comments Good, Solid, Beer. I just don't care anymore. watery but pumpkiny TRICKERY! . Pretty good, not pumpkiny. NICE FINISH! LOW CARBONATION Darn Decent, a beer I can drink. smells like pumpkin 666 666 TGIF Thank God I'm Finished very autumnal . .
Hints of Nothing stands out. Relief. :P . . Yeah… I give up. . . . satan's butthole Completion . . .

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