How do you feel about Pumpkin Beer?

I like a select few based on the historic of it in America's although nowadays is more a novelty tasting like ice cream or pie.

Lancaster has a very good one

 

Bought one this year after years of not because it was good when we had it in a flight.

 

Right now it's "cool" to hate on pumpkin spice anything, so you're probably going to see an overall negative sentiment. It'll pass, just like hate for "fruit beers," lagers, NA beers, hard seltzer, etc.

 

I'm a fan of pumpkin pie. But keep the gourds out of the beer, they are either earthy and meh or a total bakery bomb like so much Christmas beer to follow
Keep the beer hearty and pass me the desserts in the colder months. Even the best example for me is a one and done at best, I'm not an adjunct purist just don't want baking spices in the beer imitating a dessert that's better left in the dessert.

 

A lot depends on the beer has actual pumpkin in it, just "pumpkin spices", or some unholy combination thereof. All are nasty.

 

Wait, pumpkin is fermentable?

@jesskidden

 

Well, the pumpkin was more so used to provide starches which are converted to sugars during the mashing process with malt.

If you are interested you can go to the below link and download an article to learn more.

Cheers!

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/how-to-brew-pumpkin-beer/

 

So far I have purchased the Elysian Pumpkin mix 12-pack and earlier today I selected two bottles of Flying Dog The Fear Pumpkin beers.

Cheers!

 

Not sure I can say they all objectively taste "bad", but....
There's so much better beer out there especially in the fall. Festbiers, Marzens, Vienna, Amber, Brown, Winter Warmers. Not to mention the other German and Belgian options. I can't remember even remotely craving a pumpkin beer. Didn't drink one this year and probably don't see myself going forward.

 

Except pie, I hate anything with actual pumpkin (squash) in it, but love about anything with pumpkin-spice. I've tried many pumpkin and pumpkin-spice beers, and liked almost none. Seems like they struggle with sweetness - too sweet or too bitter. Prairie Basic Becky and Schlafly BA Pumpkin are two of the best IMHO. Avery Rumpkin would be incredible with less sugar.

 

You are both wrong.

 

Can we move on now?