Pumpkin beer recommendations?

I use real pumpkin in my home brew...

 

Exactly, pumpkin has very little taste.

 

Hangar 24 Gourdgeous uses real pumpkin, grown half a mile from the brewery, seeded by volunteers and roasted on site. Lovely beer. Will be released on Saturday.

 

Someone already mentioned Hangar 24 Gourdgeous, which is phenomenal. Although not a stout, Epic's collaboration with DC Brau, Fermentation without Representation, is an awfully tasty imperial pumpkin porter.

 

Captain Lawrence Pumkin Ale

 

Bier Brewery- Indianapolis IN... https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bier-Brewery/142149049146462
At least they told me they use real pumpkin...

and also I am not sure anyone has tried Shlafly Pumpkin, or whether or not it uses real pumpkin, both of these brews imo are amazing.

 

Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela and Allagash Ghoulschip both contain real pumpkins and taste nothing like "pumpkin beer"... thank god.

 

Add another to the list that I just cracked open this evening! Amazing pumpkin brew that tastes nothing else like any other I've had before, and I have had close to at least 50 different pumpkin brews. Nickapalooza, pay close attention to the mention of the flavor added by the fresh pumpkin.

http://www.springhousebeer.com/pages/beer/braaaiins

 

Just split the Schlafly with my wife and it is awesome! Still like Elysian more but this was a fine, fine beer. And I heard they do use fresh pumpkin. This one said it was bottled July 24.

 

Aren't all Jolly Pumpkin beers sours including that one?

 

Yes, Schlafly uses real pumpkin.

 

Shipyard has 2 pumpkin brews
Smashed Pumpkin and Pumpkin Head.

I'm not much for pumpkin beer, but both of these I'd rate 4.3 across the board.

 

well Elysian and Stone made a beer with yams that had the gourd flavors. Some people on HBT say that yams create a better pumpkin beer. I just made one with yams, butternut squash, and buttercup squash. It definitely has a more pronounced flavor than pumpkin.

 

The confusing part is that canned "pumpkin" is usually just butternut squash. The question is whether or not that adds the same thing.

 

I have no knowledge either way, but Schlafly specifically stated in their employee blog Schlafly Pumpkin Ale...Too Soon?! :

They make no mention of "real" vs "canned" pumpkin, but it does raise the question of where one finds enough fresh pumpkin in June to brew approx. 5000 bbl. of pumpkin ale.

 

I can promise you it's not canned. It is very real pumpkin, not butternut squash either.

 

I've not had the Smashed but would like to try it sometime. The Pumpkinhead I've read does not use pumpkin, canned or whole, but a "natural concentrated spiced pumpkin extract".

 

Like the title says, never had one.. I currently have the Dogfish Head Pumpkin, so I'll probably start there. A side from that, what is everyones top 5 favorite pumpkin beers?!

 

1. Elysian Dark O' The Moon
2. Southern Tier Pumking
3. Rogue Farms Pumpkin Patch
4. DFH Punkin
5. Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale

 

Schlafly Pumpkin Ale
Southern Tier Pumking