ABV: Five percent
Appearance: Post Road Pumpkin Ale pours a shade of vivid/fluorescent orange. The body has a slight haziness to it and the head has a decent thickness, is creamy and white and has excellent retention. Other white bubbles dance around in the glass.
Smell: This beer has a few scents of caramel and biscuit, initially. I also noticed some pumpkin. This is the strongest scent of pumpkin I've come across in any pumpkin ale this year. There are a few pumpkin pie spices, (mainly cinnamon and nutmeg) but they are somewhat tough to notice.
Taste: The pumpkin is very dominant in the taste of this brew. As for other flavors, it's difficult to get any of the pumpkin pie spices on the tongue. Slight hints of the biscuit (possibly a hop presence) and caramel are also there. Overall, the taste of this one comes off as dry to me.
Overall Rating: 
The biggest problems for me with this one is the lacking of the spices to mix well with the pumpkin and the dryness in the flavor. If I remember correctly, this beer seemed to change from last year's batch, too. I remember it being having a darker hue and it boasting more of a hop character.
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