{"id":1197,"date":"2013-12-10T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2013-12-10T12:31:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:31:54","slug":"pumpkin-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/pumpkin-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year was my first for sampling pumpkin beer and I was able to find some good ones, most of them on a trip to Orlando in late September. \u00a0My favorite from last year was Shipyard’s Smashed Pumpkin and honorable mention went to Weyerbacher’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale. \u00a0I wasn’t too fond of Southern Tier’s Pumking, a very highly respected and sought after pumpkin ale. \u00a0Here’s the ranked list from last year:<\/p>\n

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  1. Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin<\/li>\n
  2. Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale<\/li>\n
  3. Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale<\/li>\n
  4. Southern Tier Pumking<\/li>\n
  5. Wasatch Pumpkin Ale<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This year, I’ve collected a new sampling and here’s the ranked \u00a0list with some tasting notes (the top 3 are real winners):<\/p>\n

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    1. Uinta Oak Jacked Imperial Pumpkin Ale<\/strong> – mild spice, bold pumpkin flavor with a great oak aged flavor that really enhances the flavor… like an oak-ageChimay blue with pumpkin<\/li>\n
    2. Saint Arnold Pumpkinator<\/strong> – perfect balance of pumpkin and spice in a flavorful dark ale… a close second place<\/li>\n
    3. Epic Fermentation Without Representation<\/strong> – great balance of pumpkin and spice without overpowering the beer flavor… this is what Pumking should be and still a close third<\/li>\n
    4. Samuel Adam’s Fat Jack – a heavy ale with bold spicy pumpkin flavor and great balance<\/li>\n
    5. Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin – nice balance of pumpkin and spice in a flavorful pale ale<\/li>\n
    6. Harpoon Imperial Pumpkin – great pumpkin flavor with plenty of spice… works well in a stout<\/li>\n
    7. Southern Tier Warlock – stout ale with roasted malt, mild pumpkin, lots of spice and notes of coffee and cocoa… aftertaste is like burnt pumpkin pie<\/li>\n
    8. Rogue Pumpkin Ale – nice pumpkin flavor with hardly any spice… pretty good<\/li>\n
    9. Grand Canyon Pumpkin Springs Porter – not enough pumpkin flavor or spice, but a good porter<\/li>\n
    10. Dogfish Head Punkin Ale – mild pumpkin, mild spice, mild roasted malt flavor, mild bitterness… result is a fairly boring beer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Last year was my first for sampling pumpkin beer and I was able to find some good ones, most of them on a trip to Orlando in late September. \u00a0My favorite from last year was Shipyard’s Smashed Pumpkin and honorable mention went to Weyerbacher’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale. \u00a0I wasn’t too fond of Southern Tier’s Pumking, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[134,140,139,141,131,142,130,136,125,135,137,133],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer","tag-boston-beer","tag-dogfish-head","tag-epic","tag-grand-canyon","tag-harpoon","tag-rogue","tag-saint-arnold","tag-shipyard","tag-southern-tier","tag-uinta","tag-wasatch","tag-weyerbacher"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-jj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}