Pumpkin beers: unmanly because women love them?

I love them and make no attempt to hide. I also like how they can kind of walk different ends of the spectrum (in my opinion). Something thats pretty straight pumpkin like Punkin, or something thats almost pie-like, like Pumking.

For me there are tons of other great ones out there as well.

 

Ive never heard anybody say pumpkin beers are for woman. I know and have seen just as many men buy pumpkin when i worked at a liqour store. I think majority of people dont like pumpkin beers because they are either too sweet or too vegetal and squash-like.

I like a few pumpkin beers. I dislike the many i do because i hate cinnamon and nutmeg in anything

 

I'll admit it. I like them, I just tend to try ones that are well made (which can be a matter of opinion). Just like any other style, there's always going to be the good ones and the bad ones.

 

If you're that worried about yer man card then you may as well just turn it in...

Seriously though, to each their own. Life is too short to worry about those sort of appearance problems (unless you're like, a Kardashian). Drink what you like, advocate for good beer, and don't rip on someone else's beer just because you don't like it.

FYI, I like pumpkin beers and I in no way will hide it.

 

If the question posed by the OP were true, then no man worth his salt would ever be caught drinking sours, or wild ales, either. I've still got a bottles of Crown Valley Imperial Pumpkin from 2016 (qty. 3 & will be saving 1 for next year) & 2015 (qty. 1) that I plan on opening in the next couple of months.

 

Women love Justin Bieber… Does that mean HE is unmanly?

On second thought...that's a bad example...

 

I've never had one. Squash and spices in beer? I think I'll pass. My female friends like IPA and bourbon. Afraid the ladies will think less of you for drinking those?

 

I think this premise would be demeaning to the few women that aren't laughing their asses off over it...

 

Feels like high school.
WHY?

 

The girls at my high school liked Boy George. Does that mean HE is unmanly???

...Dang it!

 

IMO

Its unmanly to secretly like a beer

I remember drinking an Old Foghorn back in the 1990s. I was telling an English CAMRA friend mine how much I liked the style, fairly new to me back then. He told me, rather seriously, you know that's an old lady's style, something sweet that they can sip slowly.

A few seconds of silence.

Then we both burst out laughing.

Lost count of how many barley wines we have sampled since then.

 

I've never read any comments calling anyone's manhood into question because he happens to enjoy pumpkin beers. Who the hell cares, anyway? I love them. I've had bad ones (looking at you, Leinenkugel), but well-made pumpkin beers are things of beauty. The pumpkin adds some nice body, the spices are not overpowering, they are not overly sweet, and they are as satisfying as a good dessert. What's not to like?

Besides, I've already had my man card revoked for buying coconut-flavored coffee at Bed, Bath, & Beyond.

 

Personally, this is the one style where I tend to throw subtlety and finesse out the window; truth be told, it's more of a dessert concoction than beer to me. But, yeah, they just seem better when they are huge, and rich, and in your face, and blended with an imperial stout and whipped cream, and just totally over the top. No sarcasm, either.

Is it ridiculous on some level? Maybe. But so freakin' what, sometimes ya just gotta indulge

 

I still don't know where I stand on pumpkin beers. I don't love em'. Nor do I hate them. My favorite, by FAR is the Oak Jacked Imperial Pumpkin Ale by Uinta Brewing Company - now THAT is a great pumpkin beer with a little something extra. I feel that most of them are overly spiced...almost to the point where I'm not tasting the pumpkin..just the cinnamon and nutmeg. I also think Weyerbacher's Imperial Pumpkin Ale is good, as well as Shipyard's Pumpkinhead Ale (which if I'm being honest, you all need to re-try; it's improved drastically the past few years). I only really purchase several pumpkin beers in the month of October - their appeal is short lived for me. I also feel that Pumpkin Beers should be rated in their own category. What about you guys?

 

They already have their own style, "Pumpkin Ale", and I think that's yet another case of an unnecessary style. First of all, pumpkin beers can be based on any of a number of other styles. So, a pumpkin stout gets lumped in with a pumpkin IPA? Why? And if we're being picky, why aren't pumpkin beers just dumped in Fruit/Vegetable Beer style, or even Herbed/Spiced Beer? I think all three of those styles could go away, and the beers should be listed under the base beer style. We don't have a separate style for vanilla or chocolate beers, yet.

 

True. I mean, not for the scientific sake, but for Pumpkin in general. At this time of the year, I always see posts about Pumpkin Beers...so I think being able to search for sorted Pumpkin Beers would be great, at least for September-November..they seem to have their own place in the beer world during these 3 months. But if there already is a "Pumpkin Ale" category, I'll rest my case. Pumpkin is just such an extreme - at least according to my experience..some people I know love pumpkin beers, others hate them. But still, why not be able to have more categories? We don't necessarily have to take any away. A pumpkin IPA would most likely be far and away from what the average person expects from an IPA..similar to how people feel about Habanero IPA's. I understand your point about the base beer style; it becomes a slippery slope. But I definitely would not mind being able to rank/order beers whose flavor goes off the beaten path a little...pumpkin, pepper, even chocolate or vanilla - especially if that's how they're being advertised or promoted.

 

I love hot spicy food, I despise the artificial spice they put into beer. The Allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg is so over done. Something for everyone though, but some chili beers are off putting as well.

 

The problem with the current array of recognized styles (104 on BA) is that the criteria for separate styles is a total mess; brewing method, color, flavor, country of origin, target country, ingredients, alcohol content, etc, etc. So - if someone comes out with a red pumpkin IPA with high ABV is that an IPA? Imperial IPA? Pumpkin Ale? Vegetable Ale? Red Ale? Oh wait - it's unique, so let's create yet another style! Sure, why not?

Maybe every beer should be it's own style? It's such a vague mess now, that folks think that subtle variations in any of the style criteria warrants yet another style. Witness NEIPA. Why does that need to be a new style? It's an IPA.

I advocate for no more than twenty or so beer styles, based entirely on brewing method. Then sub-styles could differentiate them if necessary. For instance, stouts are stout porters. Milk stouts, Imperial stouts, etc, are all possible sub-styles - but they are all porters. At least we'd have a good understanding of style families, which would give a better idea of what the beer is.