Yeah, with 26 years of experience they got there.
We want you to be able to drink five or six of these throughout the night … spices should be balanced, flavors should be balanced and alcohol should be moderate.” In this case, that’s an Oktoberfest.” said founder David Buhler. “Our schtick is balance taking a traditional style and turning it on its head. If you want something cleaner and less blatantly sweet, this is your jam. If you’re someone who wants a hard pumpkin spice flavor, you might be a little disappointed.
The cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice shine through but never overpower. There’s a little bitterness to balance that pumpkin off, keeping it from feeling like a dessert despite how it smells. That sweetness lingers, but the first sip proves this is more beer than gimmick. It settles into the glass with a fluffy, tan head and smells great with sweet pumpkin and clove emanating off the top. Night Owl is Elysian’s flagship pumpkin beer it’s been around since ’97. And while I’m wishy-washy on the topic - there are so many ways to do pumpkin ales and every brewery’s take is different, leading to a wild variation even before you get to overall quality - I’d be remiss if I didn’t tuck into this year’s pack from a trusted brewer. You’ll also get to try guest brews in styles like pumpkin pickle beer, cinnamon roll stout and apple cobbler ale - two-thirds of which sound pretty good.īut if you’re, say, stuck in Wisconsin your options are limited to Elysian’s core four pumpkin beers. That’s great if you’re in Washington to help bartenders drain a hollowed-out, 1,800-pound gourd on the festival grounds. You’ll hear multiple instances of “latte” in our Pumpkin Fest lineup this year.” “We go as eclectic as one can - a straight up PSL clone is not unheard of. “We do 10-12 pumpkin beers each year to fill out Pumpkin Fest,” Cellermaster Dan Beyer said. It also doesn’t mean those sweeter beers don’t exist at all - just that their distribution is limited to t he brewery’s annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival.
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Crack open a bottle of Night Owl Pumpkin Ale and you’ll get plenty of cinnamon and nutmeg right from the first whiff - it just won’t be Starbucks sugary, and it will be unmistakably Elysian.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t spiced beers in the company’s portfolio. Latte inspired? Maybe, but we’ll put a twist on it that’s a little more edgy.” “I think Elysian’s vein is more ’72 Challenger. “Starbucks has a reputation as a soccer mom, SUV type drink,” founder Joe Bisacca told me midway through a pumpkin beer tasting session. But there’s no pie-adjacent, sugary-sweet brew amongst their flagship beers despite the neverending rising tide of pumpkin spice … everything. Hell, they’ve got four nationally distributed pumpkin beers ranging from ales to stouts and crushable to heavy.
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But as fall kicks into full swing, you won’t find anything approaching the Pumpkin Spice Latte flavor fellow Washington juggernaut Starbucks has developed into a national frenzy in their beers.
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