Lakefront Brewery, Inc. - Pumpkin Lager Beer

This time of the year always offers me a variety of emotions and memories. With it being close to All Hallows' Eve I find my mind often drifting between old memories of being a kid and doing the Halloween thing; dressing up as some strange ghoul and trick-or-treating, as well as carving pumpkin's and visiting the pumpkin patch, which are all really things I don't expect to ever do again in my life. Yes, pumpkin is the flavor o' the day.

Lakefront Brewery, Inc., is a local brewer 'round my own neck of the woods that offers up a variety of interesting and often tasty brews and this is their take on the Pumpkin lager. Pumpkin pours out a golden orange color with minimal head and very little lacing, while it has a distinctively pumpkin and spicy scene that has my mouth watering already. The taste is surprisingly not as sweet as I would have expected, in fact it feels like the cinnamon overpowers the pumpkin a bit. On the back of my tongue I pick up on some clove and nutmeg notes too, but in the end it just sort of tastes like a standard lager with a little extra spice added.

This 12 oz., 6.00% ABV beer is certainly decent, it beats drinking a simple lager or pilsner, but I'd expected more sweetness and perhaps something that made me think more of pumpkin pie than spices. Overall I would probably drink it again and I'm sure it would be a hit at any Halloween party, but I'd like to think that there are better pumpkin brews out there worth discovering.