Posted in New Beers, Urban Chestnut Brewing Company

Urban Chesnut Count Orlock Black Pumpkin Ale

by Reid Ramsay August 12, 2013

Posted in Devils Backbone

Devils Backbone Ichabod Crandall Returning

Devil’s Backbone Brewing Company is bottling their pumpkin offering Ichabod Crandall again for the year. The beer is brewed with pumpkin and spices for a nice fall treat.

Style: Pumpkin Ale
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Arrival: Late August, 2013

5.1% ABV

by Reid Ramsay August 6, 2013

Posted in Beer News

Shipyard Pumpkinhead 2013 Arrives

Pumpkin beer season is in full effect. Just give in. One of the most popular – Shipyard Pumpkinhead is hitting shelves now. Pumpkinhead was first brewed by Shipyard in 2002. Pumpkinhead is actually spiced liked a pumpkin beer, with no real pumpkin in the brew. Look for in now

Style: Pumpkin Beer (w/ Nutmeg, Cinnamon)
Hops: Hallertau, Willamette
Malts: 2 Row British Pale, Malted Wheat, Light Munich.
Yeast: English Ale

Taste Expectations: Hints of pumpkin, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Wheat malt brings this beer full circle. Crisp and light.

Availability: 12oz/6 pks, Draft. September- October seasonally.

5.1% ABV

Pic via @redstoneliquors

by Reid Ramsay August 6, 2013

Posted in Schlafly Brewing

It’s Schlafly Pumpkin Release Day

It’s release day for Schlafly’s (St. Louis) Pumpkin Ale.

The seasonal release is seen leaving the brewery on the pallets above. Schlafly Pumpkin uses pumpkin squash and spices to create this fall offering.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Hops: Marynka (PL)
Malts: Pale, Crystal, Munich, Wheat, Chocolate
Yeast: Ale

Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft. Aug – Oct

8% ABV

pic via @Schlafly

by Reid Ramsay August 6, 2013

Posted in New Belgium, New Releases

New Belgium Pumpkick Arrives

New Belgium Brewing (Fort Collins, CO) PUMPKICK, has arrived.

The newbie resembles a recent Lips of Faith release — Kick, a collaboration with Elysian Brewing. Kick was a slightly sour pumpkin beer brewed with cranberries, aged in oak. No oak aging or souring in PUMPKICK, but you can look forward to pumpkin juice, cranberries, and more. The flavor is quite complex, and the beer very easy drinking.

What’s that bite of tartness doing in a pumpkin beer? Adding the unexpected kick of cranberry juice to brighten this traditionally spiced seasonal ale. PUMPKICK is brewed with plenty of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, but its the cranberries and touch of lemongrass that send your tastebuds sailing.

Style: Pumpkin Beer (w/ Cranberry Juice, Cinnamon, Allspice, Nutmeg, Lemongrass)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft

6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay July 30, 2013

Posted in Cigar City Brewing

Cigar City Good Gourd Returns

Cigar City Good Gourd has returned for the 2013 “fall” season. The pumpkin brew uses cloves, nutmeg, allspice, & cinnamon for for spicing.

This high gravity gob of gourd-y goodness incorporates pumpkin in the mashing process and then gets wicked with the spices including Ceylon cinnamon, Jamaican all spice, Zanzibar cloves and nutmeg.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Availability: 750 ml bottles.

8.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay July 25, 2013

Posted in Coming Soon, Thomas Creek Brewing

Thomas Creek Adding Pumpkin Offering

Thomas Creek Brewery (Greenville, SC) is working on a pumpkin offering – Pumpkin Ale. The brewery hasn’t bottled a pumpkin offering, something soon to change. Fall beers are already arriving, with Southern Tier, Weyerbacher, and Smuttynose pumpkin based beers already on shelves. It will ship along side Oktoberfest in 6 packs.

Brewed with natural spices, our fall seasonal offers flavors reminiscent of brick oven-baked pumpkin pie.

Style: Pumpkin Beer
Hops: Hallertau, Cascade
Malts: Pale, Biscuit, Bonlander Munich, Crystal, Honey, Breiss Cherry Wood Smoked

Arrival: TBA

7.3% ABV, 26 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay July 24, 2013

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