![]() Ambroise - "Citrouille" - 3.5 - second most pumpkin-y Granville Island - "Pumpkin Ale" - 2 - not at all pumpkin-y but somehow seasonalĮlysian - "Night Owl" - 5 - very clove-y and awesome, everyone's favourite and winner of best label too Post Road - "Pumpkin Ale" - 2 - very subtle in my view but the 2nd favourite of most everyone else This confession also serves as notice that my tastes don't always align with those who do like beer. I inserted a ranking at 3 1/2 - "I would buy it at a pub because it's a beer drinking kind of event and wine wouldn't feel right" I've only had a few that would, one being a grapefruit ale, the other a coffee stout, and maybe an apricot ale (ie, all have something to cover up the taste of beer). I don't really like the taste of beer, so it takes a lot for one to make it to 4 in my rankings. It comes with a thumbs up/thumbs down grade so that you can easily take a picture for a record later:ġ (thumb down) - "it was so bad I poured it out"Ģ (thumb at 45 degrees below horizontal) - "I managed to finish it but would not drink it again"ģ (thumb horizontal) - "I would drink it again"Ĥ (thumb 45 degrees above horizontal) - "I would buy it at the store"ĥ (thumb up) - "I could drink it for breakfast tomorrow morning" I'd link to it if it were up and running because she has a trademark beer grading system that we used for the tasting. I have a friend who's decided to learn some html, so she's practicing on a beer tasting website. Next year's batches will all taste differently, so we'll have to re-do our survey then. I realize it's a little late for this review, since the beers aren't in the store anymore. A few people brought some more and we had 9 altogether. There were 10 different brands in this little store alone! So I bought 6 and on Hallowe'en I invited some folks round for a pumpkin beer tasting. Prior to this, I'd only ever had the Steamworks pumpkin beer (which tastes less amazing with each passing year) but had heard of others. I'd never seen them in the store before (only on tap at brew pubs) and was amazed at the variety. Various bars on Belmont Street.I was walking home from work at the beginning of October and popped into the liquor store for a per-field trip bottle of wine (I was working near Chetwynd, BC for most of the month) and discovered a display of pumpkin beers. The Bier Stein, 1591 Willamette St, Eugene, OR 97401īen’s Bottle Shop, 8052 E Mill Plain Blvd, Vancouver, WA 98664 Platypus Pub, 1203 NE 3rd St, Bend, OR 97701 The Growler Guys, 345 Lithia Way, Ashland, OR 97520 Old Fashioned Pumpkin Strong Ale Elysian Brewing pouring its pumpkin beer from directly from a gourd.Ģ018 Elysian Great Pumpkin Roadshow Schedule:ī2 Taphouse, 1170 Boone Rd SE, Salem, OR 97306 Here are more details on the pumpkin beers and the events scheduled over the next few weeks. ![]() Read More: 14th Great Pumpkin Beer Fest Returns To Seattle Center – October 5-6, 2018 ![]() The tour will also make stops in Ashland, Bend, Eugene, Vancouver, Portland, and The Dalles as it hosts events in each city.Įach stop on the Great Pumpkin Roadshow will have a Pumpkin Tapping Ceremony, costume contest, brewery reps, Elysian brewers, pumpkin smashing contests, speciality pumpkin beers only found at the event, and more. The 2018 Great Pumpkin Roadshow will make seven stops when it kicks off on September 20th in Salem, Oregon. With the cooler air and the change of seasons upon us means that pumpkin beers are back.! And the region’s most prolific brewers of pumpkin beers is back at it as Elysian Brewing releases eight varieties of these gourdeous beers in 2018.Įlysian Brewing will host its 14th Annual Great Pumpkin Festival in Seattle from October 5-6, 2018 and will bring its annual Great Pumpkin Roadshow back to Oregon and Southwest Washington.
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