The Best Pumpkin Beers to Drink This Fall

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Sip on nitro ales, barrel-aged beers, and spiced stouts.

https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/best-pumpkin-beers



There are so many pumpkin beers on the shelves these days that it’s difficult to figure out what’s a trick and what’s a treat. We’ve done the tough work of drinking the best pumpkin beers in America to ensure your next six-pack is full of sugar, (pumpkin) spice, and everything nice. This fall, skip the pumpkin spice lattes and slices of pumpkin pie and opt for one of these stouts or ales instead.

Elysian Night Owl

6.7% ABV

Seattle, Washington

When it comes to pumpkin beer season, Elysian arguably takes it the most seriously nationwide. The brewery hosts the Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival pouring 80-plus pumpkin beers from around the country. The PNW spot also taps a “several-hundred-pound” pumpkin that’s been conditioning a beer of its namesake during the celebrated gathering. Elysian is releasing a trio of pumpkin beers—The Punkuccino, The Great Pumpkin, and Night Owl. The latter is brewed with roasted and raw pumpkin seeds, plus a nice dose of cloves, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Be as wise as the mascot and pick one up this season.

Two Roads Roadsmary’s Baby

ABV 6.8%

Stratford, Connecticut

Surely the finest beer ever named after a movie in which (spoiler alert) a woman gives birth to the Devil’s offspring, Roadsmary’s Baby is a devilishly delicious take on a barrel-aged pumpkin beer. Two Roads takes the rum barrel-aged mantle and runs (rums?) with it, offering up a beautiful, deep copper-colored ale with an intoxicating pumpkin spice blend on the nose. Your tastebuds will dive into pools of vanilla and oak imparted from the rum barrel. And unlike most barrel-aged brews with super high ABVs, this brew will give you all those flavors you know and love from the cellaring process without making you want to take a nap immediately after drinking it.

Tröegs Independent Brewing Master of Pumpkins

7.5% ABV

Hershey, Pennsylvania

Tröegs knows how to embrace its environs while making a truly seasonal beer by using 3,000 pounds of Pennsylvania longneck pumpkins grown by neighbor Strites Orchard for their revered Master of Pumpkins ale. From de-stemming the longnecks, to roasting them in the kitchen, and then finally adding them to the mash, the dedication to making this highly anticipated fan favorite deserves some love! The subtle notes of nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla bean, and caramel pouring with a hue of walnut brown justify the wait for 2021’s batch.

Heavy Seas Great’er Pumpkin

ABV 10%

Halethorpe, Maryland

This brewery outside of Baltimore has gone through a few recent facelifts—both in its taproom and on its packaging—but a mainstay is its bold, barrel-aged pumpkin ale. Brewers used real pumpkin for the recipe and also age the beer in bourbon barrels, giving it slight notes of oak and vanilla, on top of cinnamon, ginger, and clove flavors. This is one your nose will notice as soon as the bottle opener flips off the cap.

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[Ocelot II]

1. "Best pumpkin beer"?

Isn't deciding which pumpkin beer is "best" sort of like choosing the best venereal disease or the best intestinal parasite or the best industrial pollutant?

Pumpkin beer? Really?

and and some more!

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3. I agree, a friend of mine gave me a bottle of Chocolate beer. Why would

anyone do that to beer.

[Celerity]

4. to each their own

this was really good (not on the list, but we can get it here in Sweden at Systembolaget)

Great Divide Brewing Company - Pumpkin Yeti

https://www.systembolaget.se/produkt/ol/pumpkin-yeti-1082512/

[Ocelot II]

5. I do like that they named it after a terrifying monster,

since pumpkin beer is a terrifying concept. But skål, and lykke til...

[Celerity]

6. Yeti is the name for Great Divide's flagship imperial stouts, there are many variations

https://greatdivide.com/beers/

https://greatdivide.com/beers/yeti-imperial-stout/

[Jade Fox]

2. Thanks! Love pumpkin beer!