{"id":12184,"date":"2010-10-13T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=12184"},"modified":"2010-10-13T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T14:38:57","slug":"review-dogfish-head-punkin-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/10\/review-dogfish-head-punkin-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Dogfish Head Punkin Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Label.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12185\" title=\"Dogfish Label \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Label-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Label-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Label.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> When people start talking about pumpkin ales, the first thing I usually hear are those touting the amazingness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogfish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dogfish Head&#8217;s Punkin Ale<\/a>.\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t come across my path until recently.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if I just wasn&#8217;t looking for it or if for some reason, it was never available in the places I buy beer.<\/p>\n<p>Finally this season I spotted some and purchased it for <a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/09\/october-is-pumpkin-month-on-ohc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pumpkin Month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I have to credit World Market here!\u00a0 They came through!<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly I was excited to try this beer out.\u00a0 So many people talk about it, it has a fun little label, and I love pumpkin beer.<\/p>\n<p>Quick Recap:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m going to rate the beers on:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Smell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Color<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Head Retention<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Taste<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ratings will be <img src=\"..\/images\/pumpkin.gif\" alt=\":pumpkin:\" \/> and the score will range from 1-5.\u00a0 One being the poorest and five being the best.<\/p>\n<p>Bring it Dogfish!<\/p>\n<p>Will this beer knock me over or will it go out like a punk?\u00a0 (Oh snap!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Punkin.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12187\" title=\"Dogfish Head Punkin Ale\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Punkin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Punkin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Dogfish_Punkin.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We opened it up and got started with the testing!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Smell:<\/strong> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/><\/p>\n<p>I always smell a beer right out of the bottle and then once I pour it, I smell it again.\u00a0 This pumpkin ale had a nice aroma to it.\u00a0 You could smell the spices right away, though it isn&#8217;t strong enough to smack you in the face.\u00a0 I was a little bummed by that.\u00a0 Nonetheless there was a hint of spice there, so I had high hopes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Color:<\/strong> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t tell in the picture, but this ale has a nice deep color to it.\u00a0 Yes you can still see through it, but I certainly wouldn&#8217;t toss it in the &#8220;light&#8221; category.\u00a0 I was pleased with the color and this set the foundation for expecting a lovely beer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head:<\/strong> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/><\/p>\n<p>Head retention here was really non-existent.\u00a0 In the time it took me to pour the beer and then turn my camera on, which was right next to me, the head was gone.\u00a0 Poof!\u00a0 Just like that!\u00a0 Boo.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t even get to see it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taste:<\/strong> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/> <img src='\/images\/pumpkin.gif' alt=':pumpkin:' \/><\/p>\n<p>This beer falls flat on pumpkin taste.\u00a0 The smell is there and it creates a lovely anticipation but no delivery on taste.\u00a0 There&#8217;s hardly any pumpkin flavor and there&#8217;s no spice at the finish at all.\u00a0 Despite the nice coloring the beer is very light and a little weak tasting. It literally almost tasted watered down.\u00a0 With all of the hype, we weren&#8217;t impressed at all.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, we were really disappointed in this beer.\u00a0 With so many people in love with it, we thought that it was definitely going to bring in the pumpkin flavor.\u00a0 It let us down. \u00a0 Since it only comes in a four-pack it is <em>an expensive <\/em>seasonal<em>.<\/em> Close to $9 for four bottles of beer!\u00a0 That&#8217;s a pricey!<\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of people dig it, but Dogfish Head Punkin Ale isn&#8217;t really our thing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s drinkable but not something I would actively seek out and purchase again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you had Dogfish Punkin before?\u00a0 What were your thoughts? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people start talking about pumpkin ales, the first thing I usually hear are those touting the amazingness of Dogfish Head&#8217;s Punkin Ale.\u00a0 It hasn&#8217;t come across my path until recently.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if I just wasn&#8217;t looking for it or if for some reason, it was never available in the places I buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[32,84],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3aw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}