The resulting brew is intense, boozy, and rich with a fantastic warm vanilla background. “The rich, caramel malt base is driven forward by additions of cinnamon, Jamaican allspice, Zanzibar cloves, nutmeg, and vanilla. “Good Gourd is one of the finest examples of an imperial pumpkin beer available and derives a lot of its well deserved praise from the fact that it does it all without any barrel aging,” Monteiro says. GOOD GOURD BY CIGAR CITY BREWING (ABV: 9.6%) | TAMPA, FL The finish clearly showcases the barrels, moving from the spices to a warm vanilla oak from the bourbon, and finally finishing on a secondary dose of spice, this time from the brandy barrels.” is an award-winning craft brewery, best known for Arcus IPA, Wavemaker Amber Ale, Helicity Pilsner and Oats In Hose Oatmeal Stout 839. The taste begins very sour on the first sip, but moves pretty quickly into pumpkin spice territory. Finally, the two separate barrels are blended together, creating this masterpiece of a brew. First, batches of a Belgian Quad are aged in bourbon and brandy barrels for up to 22 months with pumpkin and spices and then they left to sour.
“Their pumpkin ale undergoes some of the most rigorous aging processes available to brewers. “Cascade is well-known in American craft beer circles as some of the most expensive and well developed sours-truly making it a high end product,” Monteiro explains. Suffice to say, the brewers at Buffalo Bill’s know a thing or two about making a good craft beer, and their pumpkin ale is no exception. Unfortunately (or not for some), the pumpkin spice that should have balanced the brew are heavily muted, being totally taken by the sour and wine barrel, but the remaining portion of the beer is tart, rich, and warm from the bourbon heat.”ĬASCADE PUMPKIN SMASH (ABV: 11.1%) | PORTLAND, OR Buffalo Bill’s is known near and far for helping to launch the Craft Beer Renaissance and was one of the first brewpubs in the U.S.
“Aged in bourbon and wine barrels, this dark pouring beer oozes a deep wine tannin character, which adds bitter notes to a well-developed and heavy-bodied sour. “Almanac has always had a knack for brewing some of the finest sour liquids around, and their Sour Pumpkin is certainly in that category,” Monteiro says. PUMPKIN SOUR BY ALMANAC BEER COMPANY (ABV: 8.5%) | SAN JOSE, CA This beer really shines in the finish, leaving the palate with layered waves of vanilla, rum-soaked wood, and tastefully done pumpkin spicing.” The flavor picks up more oak character than the original, which comes out as a slight funk at the beginning of the beer, along with a surprisingly medium body and heavy carbonation. The two are essentially the same beer, except that Other Baby is aged in the same barrels for longer. “However, the much rarer Roadsmary's Other Baby is coming to NYC draft lines in extremely limited quantities this year. It’s the priciest beer on our list at nearly 50 cents an ounce (sours tend to be more expensive in general), but you’d be hard-pressed to find another pumpkin sour near you in the first place, let alone one this tasty.“You may be familiar with the widely available Roadsmary's Baby-Two Roads’ take on a light, sessionable pumpkin ale aged in rum barrels with vanilla beans,” Monteiro points out. The Pumpkin Kerfuffle may not be made with real pumpkin, but it’s a rare autumn delicacy that no sour beer lover should turn down the chance to try.
It’s packed with toasted marshmallow flavor and pumpkin pie spice, so its flavor has a creamy, meringue-like backbone to it. It’s mouth-puckering without being overwhelmingly tart, almost like sweet-and-sour pumpkin candy. Well, Prairie’s Pumpkin Kerfuffle, an 8.2 percent ABV imperial sour, will make them see the truth. statesįinding a pumpkin sour is kind of like seeing a unicorn-it’s basically unheard of, and if you gush to your friends about how awesome it was, they probably won’t believe you. Most unexpected pumpkin beer Availability: 42 U.S.
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