Fall/Autumn non-pumpkin brews

Oktoberfests, Nosferatu and the harvest wet hop ales. Also FBS will soon show up!!

 

Besides all the wet hops, I can't wait for Moonglow

 

Harvest ales are one of my favorite styles. Founders is at the top of that list.

I grew some hops in my backyard this summer, hoping that I could make my own...didn't get a single flower

 

Used to be GLBC Glockenspiel till they took it out of the bottling rotation.

 

Just an FYI, most hop plants will not produce many cones until 2nd and subsequent years....I got some Cascade cones last year on my first year plants and tons this year!

 

YES, on the Anchor Big Leaf maple....delish!

 

My fall favs?

Love all sorts of Marzens, wet harvest ales, brown ales, etc

Anchor Big Leaf Maple
Sixpoint Sensei
Troegs Hop Knife
ST Harvest
Smuttynose Brown

to name a few!

 

When reading about this I found the hop bill interesting. Do you get a bit of the citrus and fruit of the Nelson and Citra hops? I know being a red ale, it isn't going to give you the same hop burst of an IPA, but I am curious to know if they show themselves at all. If they were too intense, then the maple would have a hard time getting through.

I hope to see for myself in the near future, but at the moment my beer fridge needs to give up some space.

 

Like most Anchor beers, it is subtle.....you can get a bit of the citrus from the hops, especially as the beer warms, but the maple flavor per se, is not very noticeable to me...a solid beer for sure!

 

Victory Festbier, Bells Best Brown, GL Oktoberfest, SN Tumbler

 

Thanks! You are so right though...Anchor always plays it quite subtle. I love that there are breweries that approach product this way. I also love that there are breweries that offer BIG flavors. Both approaches can be delicious.

 

Definitely a Marzen/Oktoberfest brew. I'm a big fan of Sam Adam's Octoberfest and it's available throughout the U.S. and yes, even in the often neglected Maritime Provinces

 

Local Oktoberfest marzens from Two Brothers (Atom Smasher) and Metropolitan (Afterburner) are excellent.

 

harvest ales
and I will also begin to drink porters
although porters and stouts are my main squeeze, I'm just not quite feel in it yet. there is just something about a hoodie and fires

 

looking forward to this one... since I'm not a fan of Pumpkin brews.

 

Im looking foward to red ales and ambers. Nothing too hoppy though. Im getting burnt out from this summer.

 

Somebody please ellaborate on what exactly is a harvest ale? Ive not heard that before.

 

I enjoy Oktoberfests and Harvest Ales, but I look forward to fall because I start breaking out all the barleywines and imperial stouts I've had stashed and then tons of those hit shelves early as part of the Winter seasonal creep. I could skip the seasonal creep on pumpkin beers, oktoberfests, summer ales, but when it means the big guns arrive earlier, I'm not complaining.

 

Troegs Hop Knife