Beer Alert – Serious Pumpkin Beers

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Pumpkin beers can be incredibly polarizing. There’s not a lot of middle ground…people either love them or hate them. But a well-crafted pumpkin ale at the right time, can make all the sense in the world – and here are five serious pumpkin ales (some of them GABF winners) that might change what you think about the style.

Saint Arnold Pumpkinator

When you take a gold medal at the GABF beer competition, you’ve got something going on, and Houston, Texas-based Saint Arnold Brewing most certainly does…

Saint Arnold’s Pumpkinator 2017 is THE award-winning 10.5% ABV Imperial Pumpkin Stout that took it all at this year’s GABF. Saint Arnold’s barrel-aged version, Bourbon Pumpkinator is also out there now as well…and it’s also killer!beer, Beer Alert – Serious Pumpkin Beers

Schlafly Pumpkin Ale

Saint Louis, Missouri’s Schlafly Brewing may be one of craft beer’s most taken-for-granted breweries and their award-winning Pumpkin Ale (which took a silver at this year’s GABF) is a game-changer.

Richly copper-colored and seasonally spiced, (and at 8% almost an Imperial) Schlafly Pumpkin Ale may be a bit sweet for some but its nuanced fall flavors can’t be denied.

5 Phantoms Pumpkin Spice Barleywine

Montana’s Philipsburg Brewing took a bronze at this year’s GABF for their unique take on the pumpkin ale tradition.

Autumnal in color and named after its five basic ingredients (water, barley, hops, yeast & spice), 5 Phantoms Pumpkin Spice Barleywine is a big 8.5% ABV seasonal that uses three different locally-sourced pumpkin variations to flesh things out.

Almanac Pumpkin Sour

Northern California’s Almanac Beer Company is known for their deft sours and barrel-aged creations, and their pumpkin-infused sour is truly one-of-a-kind.

Brewed with pumpkin (of course) and spices (yeah that too), Almanac Pumpkin Sour is an 11.1% exercise in gourdian excellence that was aged for almost two years in bourbon and wine barrels.

Dogfish Head Punkin Alebeer, Beer Alert – Serious Pumpkin Beers

Dogfish Head’s fall seasonal pumpkin ale, which they’ve been brewing since 1995, debuted as part of a legendary southern Delaware pumpkin extravaganza, Punkin Chunkin.

Sweet, sassy and brown sugar-toned, Dogfish Punkin Ale is a 7% ABV pumpkin-fueled Brown Ale that’s complex and unassuming at the same time.

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