3/25/2023 0 Comments Harpoon ufo pumpkinPumpkiny: 2.4 Overall Rating: 3.8 out of 5īrewer: Leinenkugel’s | Chippewa Falls, WI | Beer Info | Websiteĭescription: Satisfy your thirst for autumn with our Leinenkugel’s Harvest Patch Shandy. isn’t offering this or any other pumpkin beer in 2016. A vibrant clove and cinnamon finish wakes up the palate for the next sip. A lighter style than our Pumpkin Porter, this beer strives for balance in the sweetness and pumpkin flavor with a hint of hops in the background to cut through the forward spicy flavors. Special thank you to my family for agreeing to take on this challenge! They made me swear to never make them drink that many pumpkin beers again when we were done…īrewer: Alaskan Brewing Co. | Juneau, AK | Websiteĭescription: This beer pours clear deep golden brown with a creamy off-white head and a wonderful holiday aroma of pumpkin, nutmeg and cloves. Beers are listed in alphabetical order, and I’ve included as much information as possible to help you locate them near you. The final ratings you’ll see below are the average of our individual ratings. And please don’t judge us too harshly for our glassware – we’ve since upgraded and now have proper beer sampling glasses! (We split the beers between us, for the record.) We rated each beer on the following using a scale of 1-5, five being the highest rating:īetween each beer sampling, we sipped water and snacked on plain pretzels to clear our pallets. Then stay tuned because Thursday party hostess extraordinaire Chrystina Noel will be guest posting on and sharing her very best tips for hosting a beer tasting party on a budget!Ī total of five people sampled nine pumpkin beers. Plus, at the end of the post you can download a FREE tasting card to use for your own tasting. Unfortunately, I could only talk my family into trying nine, and today I’m sharing the results of our pumpkin beer tasting with you! In fact, according to ’s list there are more than 1,250 different pumpkin beers in production. These days, you can walk into any grocery and liquor store and easily find 10 different pumpkin brews just waiting to go home with you. The more modern revival of pumpkin beers goes back to the late 1980s when Buffalo Bill’s Brewery began producing America’s Original Pumpkin Beer – a brew that uses one of George Washington’s recipes as inspiration. The drink’s continued until the early 19th century when pumpkins began to be viewed as rustic, and quality malts became more readily available. Fermentable sugars weren’t always readily available in those days, and the meat of pumpkins could easily replace malts in a pinch. In fact, they have a long and storied history dating back to the mid-1600s, well before we even became a country. Every brewer worth their malt seems to have one in their fall seasonal collection.īut pumpkin beers are nothing new to America. Over the last few years as the craft beer market has grown leaps and bounds, so has the availability of pumpkin beers. I can’t think of another hot topic in the Halloween community more polarizing than your love of or disdain for these autumnal treats. We all have VERY strong feelings about pumpkin beer, and we all seem to fall in two very clear camps: love or hate. O: I'd thought Punkless Dunkel was theft of my idea for a pumpkin wheat beer, but this UFO swill has nearly the same flavor as my homebrew batches, with a notch or two more caramelized character, but the spices/esters/phenols are a close match.Ah, pumpkin beer. mild spice and alcohol at the back of the palate provides a mild cooling sensation little more than halfway through, and it really just a nutty-yeasty hefeweizen with some pumpkin spice carefully woven inį: smooth, slightly rounded body, with a nicely undercut bottom, little residual viscosity, marginal sediment drag. T: malt sugars open up on the palate again, rather floral and clove-y as well, with little play from cinnamon et al aftertaste has a mellow essence of caramelized banana, delicate nutty malt to the back and sides. overall moderate intensity floral, mellow spicy, light note of caramelization after the head falls, a hint of canned pumpkin puree. S: pumpkin pie spices - cinnamon, subtle nutmeg, ginger(?), with the weizen phenols accenting the spice a little. L: hazy, orange-amber liquid, perhaps a bit of sediment sneaking in, culprit in nucleation and 3-finger tall head, loosely-built, which crumbles rather quick, leaving a chunky collar, random boogers of lace (12 oz can, pkg 08/26/19 purchased single off shelf.
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