This Day Anything Goes: 6.0 – It’s nice, but it’s very plain. You barely even get pumpkin and its almost like Allagash white with white wine.
Price Average: $11
Website: https://www.trvebrewing.com/
Tag: Pumpkin Beer
Elysian Brewing Company ‘Night Owl’ Pumpkin Ale
Night Owl: 3.0 – This tastes like a vegetable and while surely there might be someone who likes that its really not a great overall beer to drink.
Price Average: $14
Website: https://www.elysianbrewing.com/
Cambridge Brewing Company The Great Pumpkin Ale
The Great Pumpkin Ale: 6.0 – An okay pumpkin ale? Sure, but a great pumpkin ale? Not really I’m afraid. While its got a nice balance of pumpkin vs spice flavor its slightly above par and that’s it. I commend them for not going full spice (or more recently like Sam Adams 20lbs full vegetable) but it’s overall flavor and enjoyment is simply not ‘great’
Price Average: Name $8
Samuel Adams 20 Pounds of Pumpkin Ale
20 Pounds of Pumpkin: 5.0 – It’s an okay pumpkin beer, and there’s some nice spice on the aftertaste. They add a lot of pumpkins (hence the namesake) and it gives it almost a vegetable like flavor instead of a real ‘pumpkin’ flavor that comes from either a manufacturer or roasting seeds.
Price Average: 20 Pounds of Pumpkin $8 for 6-pack
Website: https://www.samueladams.com/
Shipyard Pumpkinhead
Shipyard Pumpkinhead: 8.0 – While we have reviewed formally the Smashed Pumpkin from Shipyard, we never actually gave a review of Pumpkinhead – mostly because we were too busy drinking it. We often get things to review as sort of an extra – whereas Pumpkinhead was always just a staple – why review it? Well I felt we should, because this is without a doubt the perfect blend of pumpkin, drinkability, and beer that you can get for a pumpkin beer. Are their better pumpkin beers – yes? But not that many, and those are on occasion – pumpkinhead isn’t meant to be a Ferrari, it’s your dependable Saab, and you wouldn’t change that.
Happy Thanksgiving folks, enjoy it with a Pumpkinhead.
Google Shop Average: Shipyard Pumpkinhead $8 for a 6-pack
Website: http://www.shipyard.com/
Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale
Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale: 7.5 – Now the trouble here is that Shipyard already makes Pumpkinhead which in my mind is about as good as you can reasonably get for a goto pumpkin beer. The smashed pumpkin though goes for a larger taste and spice flavor, and it doesn’t disappoint, it sadly loses a bit of that easy-drinking that Pumpkinhead excels at.
Google Shop Average: Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin Ale $8
Website: http://www.shipyard.com/
Jack’s Abby Pumpkin Crop Lager
Jack’s Abby Pumpkin Crop Lager: 4.5 – While the lager backing certainly gave this a different feel than other pumpkin beers (which are typically ales) it’s overall a rather luckluster beer, and rather disappointing coming from the Abby (who we are huge fans of, especially with Smoke and Dagger.), but it’s an experiment and one that’s not-not worth a try.
Google Shop Average: Jack’s Abby Pumpkin Crop Lager $(Likely out of stock)
Website: http://jacksabbybrewing.com/
Wachusett Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Wachusett Imperial Pumpkin Ale: 5.5 – We’re going to spend this week finishing off our backlog of pumpkin beers as they are really about to go out of season. While this lacks either a strong pumpkin flavor or Pumpkinhead’s supreme drinkability this is a passable pumpkin ale.
Google Shop Average: Wachusett Imperial Pumpkin Ale $11
Website: http://www.wachusettbrew.com/