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Great Pumpkin Beer Festival wrap-up
Looking back in retrospect on the Great Pumpkin Beer Festival we attended in Seattle this past weekend, there’s really not much more I can add to my day 1 and day 2 summaries except for the beers I...
View ArticlePictures from Elysian Great Pumpkin Beer Fest
Better late than never: a big collection of pictures I took at the Elysian Great Pumpkin Beer Fest at the beginning of this month. (See also my earlier wrap up.) Not much to explain here, just enjoy!...
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Getting Squashed at 10 Barrel
This past Saturday 10 Barrel Brewing here in Bend held their first-ever pumpkin beer fest, dubbed “Get Squashed”, where they featured five pumpkin beers on tap, pumpkin food, live music, and more. Not...
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Great Pumpkin Beer Fest wrap-up and gallery
I’m only about a week behind on writing about last weekend’s Great Pumpkin Beer Fest at Elysian Brewing in Seattle (at their Georgetown brewery, really), but I have to say it was again an epic beer...
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Elysian Great Pumpkin Roadshow
For the last several years Elysian Brewing has been following up their Great Pumpkin Beer Fest with a smaller-scale, traveling version: their Pumpkin Roadshow which is landing in Eugene tomorrow and...
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Week in review: It’s pumpkin (fest) season
This past week in beer for The Brew Site was a little bit spontaneous, and a little (lot) bit pumpkin. Wednesday, the 14th, the Elysian Brewing Great Pumpkin Roadshow came to Bend, landing at the...
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Tuesday Tastings: Harvest Season
For this week’s Tuesday Tastings I’m going very seasonal, with a selection of harvest beers appropriate for the autumn. Gilgamesh Brewing Fresh Prince of Ales Gilgamesh Brewing out of Salem, Oregon,...
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Killer Pumpkin Fest postponed; Elysian Pumpkin in Canby
The Brewpublic Killer Pumpkin Festival that was originally scheduled for today at The Green Dragon has been postponed due to the crazy storm weather. (Did you see the tornado in Manzanita yesterday?)...
View ArticleLatest print article: Pumpkin beer!
You know at some point I had to… and they’re coming—pumpkin beers! That’s the topic of my latest print article which showed up in the Bulletin this week: Embracing pumpkin beer season. Most of...
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A Pumpkin Beer Manifesto
It’s that time of year again—and yes, for the day after Halloween, I believe it truly is that time of year again—pumpkin beer time! If you’ve been reading this blog long enough—or if you know me in...
View ArticleAdvent Beer Calendar 2017: Day 23: Avery Rumpkin
This is the next-to-last day of the Beer Advent Calendar, and it also happens to be my birthday! As part of my annual tradition, today’s beer pick isn’t a Christmas beer per se, but it is definitely a...
View ArticlePumpkin Beer Watch (2018)
Since I’ve been doing a Fresh Hops Watch post for Central Oregon fresh hop beers in recent years, I thought it was a natural progression into doing one for pumpkin beers as well. Since you all know how...
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The Elysian Great Pumpkin Roadshow rolls through town
The Elysian Brewing Great Pumpkin Roadshow came to Bend on its annual trek tonight, on its third of seven stops, taking over the Platypus Pub with eight pumpkin beers on tap and—as always—the pumpkin...
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pFriem Family Brewers Pumpkin Bier (Pumpkin Beer Project)
Happy Halloween! To celebrate the holiday I’m posting the first of several in-depth reviews of pumpkin beers (and cider), with details about the beers and some extra Q&A with the brewers. Sort of a...
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Ghostfish Brewing Lunar Harvest Pumpkin Ale (Pumpkin Beer Project)
Here’s the next post in my “Pumpkin Beer Project” for the season, featuring a gluten-free pumpkin beer: Lunar Harvest Pumpkin Ale from Ghostfish Brewing. Ghostfish Brewing Company is located in...
View ArticleTrader Joe’s Howling Gourds Pumpkin Ale (Pumpkin Beer Project)
Several weeks back, while shopping at Trader Joe’s, I came across Howling Gourds Pumpkin Ale, released under the company’s house brand of JosephsBrau Brewing. You won’t find a website for JosephsBrau,...
View ArticleLatest print article: Pumpkin beer season, with Immersion Brewing
In my latest article for The Bulletin, out last week, I revisited one of my favorite seasonal styles: pumpkin beer! It had actually been three years since I wrote about pumpkin beers for the paper, and...
View ArticleReceived: Fall (pumpkin!) beers from Harpoon Brewery / Mass. Bay Brewing
Yesterday I received fall themed beers (and a cider) from Harpoon Brewery / Mass. Bay Brewing—three of which are pumpkin, which I can’t help but admire. Here’s the PR email I got for the beers: Mass....
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Reviews – Harpoon Brewery’s Fall Lineup
Since today’s Beer Advent Calendar post highlighted Winter Warmer from Harpoon Brewery, I decided to post the reviews of Harpoon’s fall beers the brewery recently sent me. Harpoon leaned heavily into...
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Pumpkin beers are coming (already)
It was earlier this month when the press releases for pumpkin beers started coming out. Is August too early? With the pandemic still raging I’m going to say no, drink what makes you happy, though I...
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