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Its sad that summer is almost over (for most), but to me, the best thing about this time of year is the pumpkin ale. It may not be everyone's thing, but its certainly getting more popular with so many breweries coming out with their own version.

Personally, I'm more a fan of the ones that aren't too 'spiced' For example. the saranac pumpkin ale is way too spiced for my liking.

A few of the good pumpkin brews IMHO:
* Blue Point
* Blue Moon
* Shipyard
* Pun'kin
* Sam Adams
* Southampton
* Lighthouse

What have you tried? What can you recommend? Perhaps we can generate a few pumpkin ale trades for some people with access to local brews!

We have a tradition- the first Saturday in October, we wake up early and go get a pumpkin drink (latte or whatever) and some pumpkin bread. Then we go to the farmers market, roadside sellers, and various other places and pick out our pumpkins (we buy a lot). Then we do some other pumpkin related activities. Go home, set up our pumpkins in the front and around the house. We call it pumpkin day.

One year some punk kids stole a few and busted our biggest one (too heavy to carry). I have never seen my wife (girlfriend at the time) so angry at someone besides me. They better be glad we didn't catch them.

not a big fan of pumpkin ale.

ofallon makes one too

Still gots one in my patio fridge from last year..............

There fixed for ya.Hope you have a happy pumpkin day this year......and no I'm not lookin for an invite.


Ron

I love pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread and the like. I don't think I've had a pumpkin ale beer yet though. I'm sure I'll get one soon in my microbrew beer of the month club deliveries to try soon though. This month's package just arrived and it's got some Octoberbest in it. (Love me some Octoberfest!)

Thou willn't be dissapointed.

Sounds killer, Lou. When I used to make it, I added it to the brew pot. Your way should give far more flavor.

Amateur.

^ Haaa! you're smoking crack Coop..

I've had plenty of micros that werent worth the $ paid, but I can tell the difference between drinking a 40 of Old E and a Pliny the Elder. Pliny only costs twice as much as the Old E, but it's about a thousand times better.

You like the boozy, dankness of malt liquor. That's cool...but don't hate cause we micro lovers haven't quite killed all of our taste buds just yet.

^ How dare you!?!?

Pass the pipe KPP. Lmao!!

BTW I have had PTE. Not bad.

wrong chemical, brother, he ain't gonna share that crack pipe, hehe

Not amateur. Just not on the "micro brew" bandwagon. I could bottle some no name union made factory bad beer in a bottle put a silly label on it and it would get great reviews.





Doubtful

I had a new castle brown ale last night.......




YUCK!

You do know that Old English is made out of Pumpkin rinds, right?

that's the beauty of OE... a clear bottle, light and time will not comprimise the taste

Yeah, that sounds familiar.

Craig, got word yesterday the local place has released their Pumpkin Ale.
Will try to get my hands on some this weekend!

man, you crack me up, coop...check out a little history ala beerliving.com -

"From some of the books (Google books is great for searching these old books!) describing beer in colonial times, it seems like Pumpkin beer was not that unusual. During different times malted barley would be in short supply so the colonial brewers would use a wide assortment of whatever organic ingredient was handy. Pumpkin was in abundance so it was probably one of the most common of the ingredients.

One reference to pumpkin beer was from the 1863 book “History of Hadley” by Sylvester Judd:

“In Hadley, around 1800, beer was generally brewed once a week; malt, hops, dried pumpkin, dried apple parings and sometime rye bran, birch twigs and other things were put into the brewing kettle and the liquor was strained through a sieve. This beer was used at home and was carried into the fields by the farmers. “

It also seems that pumpkin beer was an ingredient to making a very popular drink of the day, the ‘Flip’. From the 1919 book ‘“Colonial Folkways” by Charles McClean Andrews, there is a reference to using Pumpkin Beer to make a very common drink of the time, the ’Flip’:

“Flip was made in different ways, but a common variety was a mixture of rum, pumpkin beer, and brown sugar into which a red hot poker had been plunged”

American flip was made in a great pewter mug or earthen pitcher filled two-thirds full of beer; sweetened with sugar, molasses, or dried pumpkin, according to individual taste or capabilities; and flavored with “a dash” of rum. Into this mixture was thrust and stirred a red-hot loggerhead, made of iron and shaped like a poker, and the seething iron made the liquor foam and bubble and gave it the burnt, bitter taste so dearly loved."

so, not such a girly thing it seems. throughout history beer has been flavored with all kinds of stuff, pumpkin just tastes better than most of them to me. there really IS a world of good beer out there past the OE800 40's....and I used to pound plenty of those too...until I developed a sense of taste, that is....(j/k!!)

Whistle will be around shortly to edit. He did warn you!