Sunday Night Suds - Samuel Adams Jack-O Pumpkin Ale

This week's Sunday Night Suds looks at Samuel Adams Jack-O Pumpkin Ale.

Since Thanksgiving means turkey and pumpkin pie, its only fitting that the post Thanksgiving post include a new pumpkin beer.

This beer was included in the Samuel Adams "Sweater Weather" fall mixed box. The pack includes three bottles of each style, including the Boston Lager (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2013/04/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams-boston.html); Octoberfest (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2018/10/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams.html); Festbier (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2021/10/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams-festbier.html) and the Jack-O Pumpkin Ale. It is also sold in twelve packs cans, but I would not recommend buying a twelve pack of this beer.

This is not my first Samuel Adams pumpkin beer as I have previously tried the Pumpkin Batch (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2015/11/sunday-night-suds-samuel-adams-pumpkin.html) and 20 Pounds of Pumpkin (reviewed here https://kosherbeers.blogspot.com/2017/12/sunday-night-suds-20-pounds-of-pumpkin.html). 

Sad to say, this pumpkin beer does not stack up well with the prior iterations of Samuel Adams pumpkin beer. The flavor is quite weak and there is more spice (cinnamon & nutmeg) than pumpkin flavor. But besides lacking pumpkin flavor, the beer does not have any form of ale backbone and it seems to be more of a lager with spice than an ale. Not surprisingly the beer is only 4.4% abv.

The Jack-O Pumpkin Ale is under the Kosher Supervision of the Star-K and has a Star-K certification mark on the label. To see what the experts on Beer Advocate think about this brew, please follow this link - https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35/499195.

As always, please remember to drink responsibly and to never waste good beer unless there is no designated driver.

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