These beers were packaged in a 4 pack with two cans of each beer style. The two different 21st Amendment / Elysian “He Said” pumpkin beers where both unique as well. New Belgium’s Pumpkick is a pumpkin ale brewed with cranberry juice which adds a tart/sour note to their brew. Many of the beers were your standard pumpkin ales but quite a few were a bit different. Additionally the diversity of the styles used to brew pumpkin beers kept things interesting. There were several “take it or leave it” kinda beers in this tasting, beers that weren’t bad but they weren’t interesting, unique, or impressive in any way but that made the great ones even more enjoyable. This brew was second to last overall in the tasting. One of my favorite comments about this one is that it tasted like “broccoli and bud light”. This one didn’t fair to well in the tasting. The next beer up was Blue Point Pumpkin Ale. This beer placed 8 overall and was not anyone’s individual favorite. This brew was well received by everyone with folks making note of the nice amber color, good clarity, spicy hops and prevalent cinnamon. We started with this one due to the convenience of the screw top lid. The first beer we started with was the draft Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale out of a growler. 21st Amendment / Elysian – He Said Pumpkin Baltic Porter.
We drank the following beers in this order:
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Another thing to keep in mind is that none of us are professional beer judges just professional beer drinkers. This taste test was not a blind test, everyone knew what they were drinking but did their best to not let that influence their decisions. The beers were rated on a 50 point scale with aspects of the beer weighted with different maximum point values depending on their importance. We scored the beers using the standard BJCP score sheet. Since we were tasting such vast list of beers it was only appropriate that we scored each one to find out what our favorites were. With this in mind I got some friends together to taste all the pumpkin beers we could get our hands on and that turned out to be quite a few. In total we tried 18 different pumpkin beers that varied in style from pumpkin porters to pumpkin Oktoberfest and a few other unique pumpkin variations. I love pumpkins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cream liquor, roasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin coffee, jack o’ lanterns, the color orange, pretty much anything pumpkin related. Every year there are more and more pumpkin beers as new breweries and old not so craft breweries try their hand at crafting these autumn treats. In addition to those great styles popping up the Pumpkin Beers start flooding the market. It is harvest season for hops so fresh hop beers start hitting the liquor store shelves and winter warmers and seasonal stouts start to show their faces as well.
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Ambroise Pumpkin Ale, New Holland Ichabod, Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale, Rogue Pumpkin Patch Ale, Southern Tier Pumking, Heavy Seas The Greater Pumpkin, Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin, Blue Point Pumpkin Ale, Terrapin Pumpkinfest, 21st Amendment / Elysian He Said Pumpkin Baltic Porter, Brooklyn Post Road Pumpkin, Uinta Punk’n, Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Bottle, Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Draft, New Belgium Pumpkickįall is my favorite season for beer. 18 Pumpkin Beers – Dogfish Head Punkin, Harpoon UFO Pumpkin, 21st Amendment / Elysian He Said Pumkin Belgian Tripel, St.
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