3/28/2023 0 Comments Harpoon ufo pumpkin![]() ![]() 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. The spice mix seemed bland, maybe from the yeast esters that could be stronger from extra conditioning in the bottle.Ah, pumpkin beer. I couldn’t pick up any true discernible flavors or smells, although a general “malty” amber taste. Good spices and pumpkin pie flavor, this is a solid pumpkin beer.īryan: I admire Harpoon for sticking to their guns with the unfiltered approach, but I think it takes away from the beer. Great bubbles, there was a nice head until the last sip (or gulp if you are my Hubby). The hazy pumpkin carmel colored beer has nice spices on the nose a nutmeg and slightly fruity aroma. It’s an unfiltered beer, which I think gives it more pumpkiny goodness. Lisa: This is the first year I’ve seen the UFO Pumpkin brewed by Harpoon Brewery in Boston, MA. Pumpkin pie flavor borders on sugar-sweet after each sip, but close to pie for me! Clove/ginger flavor was pronounced and works with cinnamon aftertaste. ![]() Since Bryan’s tasting notes are so different, I’m wondering if the transport to Florida’s warmer climate is cooking the pumpkin and spice taste out of Buffalo Bill’s Pumpkin Ale.īryan: I agree that the carbonation wasn’t outstanding, but found this brew to have a strong malt base that mixed with a taste of actual pumpkin. Yeasty nose, slightly sweet tasting but not many spices. ![]() I won’t be picking it up again unless there are some serious changes. Lisa: It’s been a few years since I’ve had this Pumpkin Ale style beer brewed by Buffalo Bill’s Brewery in Hayward, CA. So, sip along with us here and here and also with Bryan and myself on Untappd as we explore and rate our favorites and try to steer you away from some of the skunkier pumpkin beers out.įirst Smackdown: Buffalo Bills Pumpkin Ale vs. Bryan will keep on blogging on others and so will I, as we are in different markets we have different access to beers. Bryan seems to love the pumpkin beers as much as I do, so we are partnering up to compare some of the widely known and easy to get your hands on Pumpkin beers. I enjoy reading Bryan Roth’s This is Why I’m Drunk posts on Pumpkin beers and especially liked his pumpkin pie rating scale. ![]()
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