Pumpkin Ale, not bad, not full bodied and malty as a traditional English nut brown ale which is what the Puritan voyagers normally drank. The ale was first brewed by the Puritan settlers in Massachusetts Bay colony Plymoth plantation,as they were short the necessaries of barley to make beer that they neded to sustain their voyage to Virginia, and had rather large stands of native pumpkin to choose from that the indigenous tribes [Wampanoags] in that area cultivated and showed them. Consequently "it" [pumpkin ale] is an authentic American beer. The notion that the Puritans would stop because they were "out of beer" seems almost ludicrous, in this day and age of clean, filtered and safe water to drink; water only lasted a very short in oaken casks that naturally contaminated , and the Puritans did not know about bromine treatment of water; consequently any shipboard water to drink was unsafe and could render one seriously incapacitated with dissentery. Beer was safe [alcohol is an astringent and kills foreign proteins at certain levels], it had long legs and kept relatively well, but beer they were out of, and beer they desparately needed; now they were in trouble. The rest is history. Post Road Brewery in Rhode Island makes a remarkably good Pumpkin Ale, as likewise Shipyard Brewery in Maine, small batches seasonal usually around Thanksgiving and ChristMass. If you're a Stout or Porter "Nazi" don't bother you'll be disappointed; it is light on the tongue and not very chewey. But served up cold it is sensational with a slight and nice nutmeg and cinamonn finish. It keeps its flavor for a reasonable amount of time when opened unlike some of the "beechwood aged potty" currently sold as "beer" or "Silver Bullet" rocky mountain cool-aid currently fashionable among "non-beer" drinkers, and the college snottie set.

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