It’s 6% ABV, and here’s what the website description says:Ī pumpkin ale with the attitude of a world-weary barista, Punkuccino packs a short shot of Stumptown coffee toddy in your pint with just a shake of cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s brewed with a Stumptown coldpress toddy concentrate, which does contain caffeine, and they estimate that a 12-ounce bottle probably has the equivalent of about 2/3 of a cup of coffee. Punkuccino is the (relatively) newest beer of this bunch, and is Bisacca’s favorite of the lineup. Spice is big here too, definitely nutmeg-forward caramelized sugars, rich malts, big yet dry and spicy finish.
Roasted pumpkin in the flavor (which could be enhanced by the seeds) and a light vegetal note that makes me think of squash blossoms. My notes: Sweet caramel-malty aroma with more prominent nutmeg and cloves-a pleasantly warming, creamy nutmeg note, but not overdone. Spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice. Roasted pumpkin seeds in the mash, and extra pumpkin added in the mash, kettle and fermenter. Brewed with Pale, Munich, Cara-Hell, Cara-Vienne, Cara-Munich and C-45 Crystal malts. The Great Pumpkin was the world’s first Imperial pumpkin ale. The modern recipe for The Great Pumpkin is similar to Night Owl, though obviously stronger, and it uses roasted pumpkin seeds only in the mash (no raw) and the ginger is omitted from the spice bill. That beer evolved into The Great Pumpkin, which the brewery claims is the “world’s first imperial pumpkin ale” though I cannot verify the veracity of this claim. In 2001, Elysian decided that for its 1,000th batch (brewed at the Capitol Hill location) the beer would be a “double” strength version of Night Owl. Night Owl is in the “classic” mold for the style, with an amber, rich, malty base with good vegetal flavors, and spices that pair well and go “pie-ish” without overdoing it. The spices come through in the flavor, with notes of caramel and pumpkin hard candy.
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My notes: Aroma is full of squash, caramel, cinnamon, allspice. I’ve reviewed this at least twice before, the first time for The Session in 2008, then again a couple of years later in 2010. The website description reads:Ī very drinkable pumpkin ale-brewed with pumpkin puree and juice, and spiced in conditioning with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.īoth roasted and raw pumpkin seeds are in the mash, with pumpkin added to the mash and fermenter. Spices go in at conditioning and the final result is an amber ale that comes in at 6.7% ABV.
I don’t know what that original recipe looked like 24 years ago, but today Night Owl is brewed with pumpkin in the mash (both puree and juice, according to the website) along with both raw and roasted pumpkin seeds, and then more pumpkin is added to the fermenter (again, per the website). Night Owl was the creation of brewer Markus Stinson, who first brewed it in 1997 at Elysian’s GameWorks arcade three-barrel brewhouse they wanted to brew a special beer for Oktoberfest beer but wanted something different than a Märzen. But here are short-form reviews (with some of those extras) for these beers for 2021. I’ve written quite about about Elysian Brewing’s pumpkin beers (and events) over the years, so I’m not necessarily covering much new ground here, though there are some interesting tidbits I gleaned about the history behind the brewing of these four beers. The virtual tasting including co-owners David Buhler and Joe Bisacca along with long-time brewer Dan Beyer. I drank some of the last of these from the pack on Halloween and finished them up this week, so I thought it would be a good time to share some thoughts on the pumpkin beers and some of the virtual tasting notes.īesides, we know pumpkin beers are just as good (if not better) as Thanksgiving beers, right? Even Elysian co-owner Joe Bisacca said, “Why not Thanksgiving?” in reference to pumpkin beer season. Over a month ago, Elysian Brewing Company sent out its Pumpkin Pack of its four core pumpkin beers, to accompany a virtual media tasting designed to get some press on the seasonal specialties as well as promote the brewery’s annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival (which took place at the beginning of October).
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