Sunday Sips: Pumpkin Wheat

Beer Name:  Pumpkin Wheat

Brewed By/In:  Shock Top / St. Louis, MO

ABV:  5.2%

Best Served In:  The Bottle

Characteristics:  Deep copper color.  When poured, head fades in less than 90 seconds to nothing.  Some carbonation throughout.  Smells great at first opening but then becomes watered down.  Distinct Belgian wheat lightness (perfect for this 80+ degree October day) brewed with pumpkin and autumnal spices that are light to the palate.  Similarly, the taste starts very sweet and dies.

Overall:  6.5 - Anheuser-Beusch's Shock Top branch revealed their first seasonal this year.  Has notes of being mass-produced.  It tastes like a Belgian wheat with pumpkin pie spice sprinkled.  It is an "eh, okay" for a pumpkin ale.  Otherwise, Shock Top brews very tasty summer libations.  

Let's raise a glass for reliving summer for just one more day, relishing in DelCo accents in a concentrated environment, staying warm underneath sweatshirt blankets.  Slainte!