Must have Pumpkin Ales (Northeast edition)

Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Stevens Point Whole Hog Pumpkin Ale (tastes similar to Weyerbacher, but sweeter), Cigar City Good Gourd, The Bruery Autumn Maple, Uinta Oak Jacked. Everyone rants and raves about Southern Tier Pumking, but I find it pretty awful and artificial tasting.

 

Rumpkin and Warlock

 

Harpoon UFO Pumpkin will be out very soon. It's one of my favorite pumpkin ales. Was at Eli Cannon's Beer Fest and Captain Lawrence had their pumpkin ale sampling. I thought both were quite good. My other go-tos are ST Pumking and Warlock, and Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin. I also enjoy Two Roads Roads Mary's Baby and Sam Adams Fat Jack, all of which will probably be out by the end of the month, early next month.

 

Allagash Ghoulship. Not sure if its coming out again this year, but if it does its absolutely top of the list. You would have to drive up to Maine, but that's worth it too.

http://allagashbrewing.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/ghoulschip-day/

 

Warlock and Pumking from Southern Tier are on shelves already here in Grand Rapids. Different styles but both are enjoyable.

 

Couldn't believe it when I visited Weyerbacher 2 weeks back in the middle of summer (!) and they were selling and sampling the imperial pumpkin.

 

Should be getting ST pumking and warlock in stock on Thursday. Same goes for weyerbacher

 

Hoppin Frog Imperial Frog's Hollow Pumpkin
ST Warlock
SA Fat Jack and regular Sam Adams Pumpkin is not bad
Lakefront Imperial BA Pumpkin
Cape Ann / Fisherman's Pumpkin stout
Long Trail Imperial Pumpkin
Rogue Chatoe Rogue Pumpkin
Uinta Oak Jacked BA Pumpkin
Harpoon Imp and reg. Pumpkin
North Peak Hooligan hoppy Pumpkin
Stegmaier Pumpkin
Fat Head's Spooky Tooth Imperial Pumpkin
Flying Dog The Fear Imperial Pumpkin
Wachusett Pumpkan
River Horse Hipp-O-Lantern Imperial Pumpkin
Anderson Valley Fall Hornin' Pumpkin
Smuttynose Pumpkin
DFH Punk'n
Schlafly Pumpkin
any Elysian Pumpkin
Wolaver's Pumpkin
Steven's Point Whole Hog Imp. Pumpkin

I could go on and on.....not sure how many of these are distro'ed in your area (or MA).....but these are some of my fav's - most will be out over the next 4-6 weeks, with some exceptions....a few are out already (ST Pumking and Warlock, Weyerbacher, etc)....enjoy your Pumpkins!

 

Unfortunately, I don't think we'll see Ghoulship until 2015. It took 3 years from brewing to release for the first batch and this most recent batch was brewed in 2012.

 

I inquired about Ghoulship about a year and a half ago and they mentioned it being ready in years. I am guessing we may see it this year.

 

Some fairly easy to come by favorites of mine are:

Fisherman's Imperial Pumpkin Stout - Cape Ann Brewing Company
Pumple Drumkin Spiced Ale - Cisco Brewers Inc.

 

If, like me, you prefer understated pumpkin ales that don't seem like pie in a bottle, Cambridge Brewing's Great Pumpkin is quite nice.

 

Yes, I want a pumpkin brew with little or no spices added. Any suggestions?

Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin is pretty amazing, but it's like a Pumpkin barleywine.

 

Love this thread!!! i love pumpkin beers but ive honestly only had a few. Pumkinhead is currently my favorite but thats probably due to the fact i havent had any of the big boys yet. My friend found a hoppin frog pumkin beer on a clearance shelf a few weeks ago and he said it was very good. Cant wait till these beers start hitting the stores full force for the fall.

-xICooRsYIx

 

Pumpkin itself adds very little "flavor" to a beer....it is the spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, allspice, etc) that give Pumpkin brews their flavor......pumpkin is a fermentable sugar source in a beer and adds some mouthfeel or body to a beer, but not much in the way of flavor....I have homebrewed with and without pumpkin, and with and without spices added.....the pumpkin beers without much or any spices taste like a brown ale for the most part. If you like something different - I enjoy Smuttynose Pumpkin as it is not super heavy on the spices and is a little hoppy, I like the combo....ditto for North Peak (aka Jolly Pumpkin) Hooligan....it is hoppy, and the hops overshadow the subtle pumpkin spicing in that beer.

 

Pumpkinhead is one of the least favorite of this style.....not a great brew IMO, but popular due to its easy drinking nature I suppose.....it is the "coors light" pumpkin version! Try some of the ones I mentioned above, especially the Imperial Pumpkins, the Hoppin Frog one is great (plus I live in Akron where HF is, so I get it fresh and often when it comes out later this month!)....cheers!

 

Here is my list of all the Pumpkin beers I love:





















None

 

Haha....everyone is a jokester, right?

Why troll on a Pumpkin beer thread if you do not like them?

 

You can't be thick skinned about pumpkin beer, just having a laugh.