Pumpkin Spice Whale

Pumpkin Spice Whale is a limited edition, pumpkin pie spiced version of The Whale brown ale from Community Beer Works in Buffalo, New York.

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Specs

Brewery Description

No description on the brewery's own site could be read. Co-founder Chris Smith, quoted at launch:

Pumpkin spice dominates the palate of fall flavors, whether in beloved coffee drinks or other seasonal offerings. We wanted to have a little fun with the flavor profile and create a beer that latched onto the hype.

Punctuation lightly normalized.

Source: WKBW: Pumpkin Spice Whale launch

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

Published by the brewery: malts: English malts. Sources are in the specs table.

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines define Pumpkin Spice Beer as having pumpkin or squash character from very subtle to intense with spices present and in balance, at 5 to 35 IBU and 2.5 to 12 percent ABV. A spiced brown ale matches the spiced side of the pumpkin category; the newly verified strength falls within the category range; bitterness remains unpublished.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Community Beer Works is in Buffalo, NY. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Microbrewery.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website.

Related

• Brewery: Community Beer Works

Links

• Untappd (hand-read citation): Community Beer Works beer list
• Community Beer Works
• WKBW: Pumpkin Spice Whale launch
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Yeast, Water, Process. Checked communitybeerworks.com, communitybeerworks.com, untappd.com, wkbw.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, buffalonews.com, web search 2026-10-14: Community Beer Works Pumpkin Spice Whale ingredients, communitybeerworks.com, communitybeerworks.com, tollbit.buffalonews.com, ediblewesternny.ediblecommunities.com.
• Not Found: IBU. Checked communitybeerworks.com, communitybeerworks.com, untappd.com, wkbw.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, buffalonews.com, web search 2026-10-14: Community Beer Works Pumpkin Spice Whale ingredients, communitybeerworks.com, communitybeerworks.com, tollbit.buffalonews.com, ediblewesternny.ediblecommunities.com, Catalog.beer search by beer and brewery name.

Research Notes

• The brewery's beers page loads its list by script and showed only "Loading beers..." to an automated read, so beer url is null.
• Style, spices, packaging and quotes come from the WKBW launch report, whose posting date is not shown on the page.
• ABV, IBU, malt and hop varieties and yeast are not published on any page read.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: The brewery's Untappd list publishes 5.9% ABV for Pumpkin Spice Whale, with N/A IBU and no named hop varieties. No readable brewery beer page was found.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: WKBW says the brew layers "distinct English malts and hops" without naming varieties; a Buffalo News caption (October 10, 2023) gives notes of fall spices, coffee and chocolate in the paper's own words, so it is not recorded as the brewery's tasting notes.
• Brewery site scrape 2026-10-14: found nothing new; 4 pages tried (robots.txt obeyed, one request every few seconds per host).
• Second deep dive pass 2026-10-14 (press quoting the brewery): wrote malts; 3 pages tried. WKBW states 'Distinct English malts and hops are also layered into the brew' with no varieties named. Buffalo News is behind a paywall token, so tasting notes, IBU and gravity were not found.