Always good. Maybe a little funkier than I remember?

Yuck. Thin beer, cola-like smell, taste is kind of insipid-sweet with a very cinnamon perfume quality. This is more like a cinnamon soda than anything else. Did not like.

Last review holds.

Strong beer at 10%.

So, Pumking is great, but if you were looking for something to cut the sweet, pie custard quality of that beer, this is probably exactly what the doctor ordered. A fairly roasty coffee flavor counteracts a very Pumking opening and makes for a different ending. Drama, not comedy, if you're in that mood!

Same great Pumking flavor, but this is enhanced by the rum to give kind of an apple-cider-syrup hit of both fruit and sweet. I liked this a lot, although there is a significantly strong bitterness in the finish.

A bit sweeter than I usually want in a beer, but par for the course for pumpkin beers. Coffee and pumpkin flavors make it worthwhile.

This is always a pleasure to drink on draft. No surprise here.

Sweet and dessert-like opening, smooth caramel. Thinner in feel than you'd think given that description, and I thought the saltiness came across as unpleasantly briny. The salt makes the turn from sweet to roasty less appealing.

Slightly odd opening, like cough syrup, but resolves quickly into a pleasantly tart, cherry flavor. Slight salt on the lips.

It's a little too much like drinking a pumpkin spice scented candle for me to really appreciate it .

What you'd expect from Southern Tier, a clear, candy-like expression of salted caramel, maybe not as salty as I'd expect, but also accompanied by strong, alcoholic, and maybe an over-roasted (read: harsh) finish. Others said it was very smooth, maybe something was up with my palate today, but I've felt the same about other Blackwater stouts.

Somehow this time the finish seemed really bitter to me, in a way that built and built.

I just love this beer on draft! Creamy, sweet body with just a hint of molasses. So good.

Exactly what it says. Smooth chocolate - orange dominate the flavor and add an odd note to the scent.

Scent is roasted banana and plum/prune. The taste is more bitter than you'd expect from the scent, Clearly a dunkelweizen, but well balanced and smooth for that type.

Very nice, mild pumpkin pin spice flavors. Nice sweetness. Good thick round texture.

Smells like sweet chocolate, kind of reminds me of powder to make hot chocolate drinks. Surprising bitternes for such a beer,

Tastes very funky to me. Has a very strong first flavor that I can't seem to identify. You can feel the flavors added by the orange skins somewhat easily but it's hard to tell which flavors the green coffee beans are adding. Ends on a weird gritty bitterness showing surprising earthy/dust flavors . Also has a weird smells that I can't identify. A enjoyable weird one overrall.

This was weird, but somehow much better than expected. I think it's because the added flavors were almost unrecognizable in their expression. First you have what appears to be a very decent tripel. The orange lends a bit of fragrance and acid to the opening, while what I assume are the green coffee beans add a vegetal and unusual bitter quality to the finish. Glad I tried it.

Getting some burned/ash aftertaste? Very tasty!

Not shabby! Very odd tastes with almost gingerbread-y smell, but comes together well

Sweetish molasses cookie smell. Some finishing tackiness.

Sweet & creamy, a lot like Pumking (as one might expect), but with a nice touch of roastiness to finish. It's not as purely enjoyable as that other beer, but it does make for a nice, and more complex, alternative.

Always a treat to get this on draft, and last year's vintage, to boot! Cream and sweet corn and pumpkin and all that turkey day jazz, pilgrim.

Chocolatey and sweet with a finish that turns more toward coffee bitterness. Hop presence was not as overt as the Choklat and I think that this suffered for it - a smoother finish made the sweetness a bit over the top.

Smells richly of chocolate. Flavor is not exactly bitter chocolate - more like a 55% dark bar with added hop bitterness at the end. The flavor is intense, but integrated - though just a bit more and it would have been over the top.

This was one of the first barleywines I ever had, and though I've had much more sophisticated examples since then, this is still v. enjoyable in its simplicity.

This beer is damn good!

Tastes like Christmas. I was nervous about figs and orange peel, but the combination works pretty well.

Not so much creme brulee... But a kick ass caramel milk stout!

An adequate substitute for Fat Woody.

If i wasn't eating teriyaki, I would've given it a higher rating.

This is a lot better on draft than in the bottle - like a completely different beer. Huge condensed milk overtone that could have been cloying but made me think of pumpkin dessert, paired with a really easy drinking pumpkin ale. Yum!

Much better on draft than in the bottle.

Much better on draft than in a bottle.

Not as smooth and rich as my memory of this on draft. It's still a smooth, easy-drinking beer with a nice level of pumpkin spice and a nice creamy sheen on top. For the second time in a week, I found myself wishing for more actual pumpkin flavor, though!

Nice smell-- like a spiced chai. Tastes lightly sweet, somewhat spiced, and thin/light body.

The only problem was that none of the plum came out in the sample I had. If the plum had been there, then this would have been maybe a point better.

Nice fruit in the fragrance - almost like a Dr. Pepper. The flavor is almost shockingly dry, with a more cola-than-coffee base. The plums add less to the taste than I expected but it's nice. Just a bit sweeter & it would have been perfect.

Plum taste is present in the front of the taste, smooths out the bitter finish. Good roast and malts to appreciate.

I think I didn't like this one, but it may have been because I had a really nice porter right before. I am fuzzy on the details for this one. It was a tasting, and I had eight kinda strong drafts. I took "notes" with my phone, but they got pretty vague.

Much too much vanilla, but it's more in harmony with the base stout (which is good!) than other vanilla stouts I've tried, making it perversely appealing.

Hops blend nicely with wood. Tastes a bit like an IPA, but without the lingering bitter taste.

Strongly floral, not too bitter, really nice flavor.

Bitter, coffee-like start but mellows into recognizable milkiness. Still not quite as enjoyable as Left Hand's Nitro Milk Stout.