Pittsburgh - New Beers & Local Breweries

I like a few. RB Pumking was good, I thought. Regular isn't bad either, but I like it aged a bit. Elysian The Great Pumpkin is pretty good too, I think.

 

Warlock by southern tier, although idk if its a pumpkin beer per se. Kinda spiced and chocolate.
But coming from someone who despises pumpkin beer- try Wolavers. Its organic so not super flavored like pumpkin. I like it at least.

 

I enjoyed a Warlock on tap last year, but didn't like it at all from the bottle.

 

Allegedly not brewed any more...

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/119/74681/

 

$11.50

 

Good Gourd Almighty is next level pumpkin shit.

 

I was really surprised by the fact that I didn't enjoy it at all.

 

I got a bottle of Seasonal Creep as an extra from a regular. Probably will be a bottle share beer.

 

I’ve always been a fan of pumpkin-flavored things, and I do enjoy a couple Pumpkin Beers when Fall rolls around. However, most of the pumpkin beers on the market are overspiced trainwrecks. Very few really pull it off. I think Pumking has turned into one of these overspiced trainwrecks.


I hadn’t had Weyerbacher’s Imperial Pumpkin in a few years, but I remembered it being a nice malty brown ale with a bit of pumpkin spice. I had it last year, and it seemed totally different. A bit lighter in color, and waaaaayyy overspiced. Was I mis-remembering, or did they change the recipe to be more “Pumking-esque”?

 

You liked Rum Pumking but not GGA? Am I taking crazy Pills? Did I invent the piano key neck tie?!

 

People having different tastes. Imagine that?

 

I never knew that could happen.

 

Pumking is such a chore to drink. Way better decision going with 12oz portions but I still would need to share. Frog's Hollow from Hoppin Frog is a really nice fruity pumpkin beer. You can tell they didn't dump a can of pumpkin pie mix into it like most others. I also really enojy The Fear from Flying Dog.

 

All this talk of pumpkin beer and no mention of Jacked Up O'Lantern? We're slipping...

 

You guys are naming some of the better ones for sure...and I definitely concur with GGA being next level. A jaw-dropping experience for me when I had it. Did not like Rum Pumpking at all. Was a big boozy mess of a beer IMO. Warlock was pretty boring.

Jacked up from Roundabout is legit good too...

All good for what they are - The Fear, regular Pumking, Weyerbacher, regular GG and regular Pumpking and most of the Elysian stuff (uh oh, made by Bud now - can definitively say without tasting that this year's isn't as good as last )...

 

Really enjoyed that one last year ... probably because it tasted nothing like the typically pumpkin beers. Always liked Saint Arnold Pumpkinator until they started dry-hopping the spices a few years back..

 

I think your face is a boozy mess of a beer.

 

I also like pumpkin beers unabashedly. Scary movies, roasts, soup, pumpkin beer - fall Is best. I get a friend in Michigan to send me a case of Screamin' Pumpkin every year.

 

WTF? (I concur though... )

 

You mistakenly omitted hoodies from your list. For the sake of keeping on topic so as not to be deleted, brewery hoodies...