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By Patrick O’Donnell
Fall is one of the best times of the year if you’re a lover of beer.
Breweries release a bevy of beverages to celebrate the harvest.
And if you’re a pumpkin lover, get set to go out of your gourd:
There are more squash-styled brews now than ever before.
While many beer drinkers may flavored beers] is the spice character. has the same spices as Devious (cloves,
think pumpkin brews are a The malt is there to back up the spice ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon),
some malts and hops differ. Baden
product of the craft movement, the and hold together that ‘pumpkin pie in says they also have an Oktoberfest
lager, which is sold only in kegs and has
truth is they can be traced to Colonial a glass’ flavor.” what he calls a “cult following.”
America. Pumpkins grew in abundance, Brew Works, with sites in “Everyone is making pumpkin beer
now,” he says “When we started we
so savvy brewers replaced harder-to- Bethlehem and Allentown, introduced were one of three. Now we’re one of
23 or more, depending on the store.”
28 | indulge • october/november 2015 grow malt ingredients with wannabe Devious Imperial Pumpkin five years
Joshua Lampe of Weyerbacher
jack-o'-lanterns. ago, Baden says. At 9 percent alcohol Brewery in Easton says that the
company has three fall selections
Because brewing converts sugar by volume (ABV) and what Baden calls this year: An 8 percent ABV Imperial
Pumpkin Ale, which includes
to alcohol and can strip flavor, those “big pumpkin pie spice,” it’s not for the cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and
clove; an Autumnfest, and Jester’s
beers likely didn’t have much faint of heart. “For the Devious,” he
pumpkin taste. says, “we were looking for something
That’s not the case today. that would define us in the market.
“We’re looking for the flavor, not the One way to do that was to go a little
sugar content,” explains Brewmaster bit stronger, a little spicy.”
Beau Baden of Fegley’s Brew Works. They offer a more subdued Pumpkin
“The predominant thing [in our pumpkin Ale, too, at 5.2 percent ABV. While it
Fall is one of the best times of the year if you’re a lover of beer.
Breweries release a bevy of beverages to celebrate the harvest.
And if you’re a pumpkin lover, get set to go out of your gourd:
There are more squash-styled brews now than ever before.
While many beer drinkers may flavored beers] is the spice character. has the same spices as Devious (cloves,
think pumpkin brews are a The malt is there to back up the spice ginger, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon),
some malts and hops differ. Baden
product of the craft movement, the and hold together that ‘pumpkin pie in says they also have an Oktoberfest
lager, which is sold only in kegs and has
truth is they can be traced to Colonial a glass’ flavor.” what he calls a “cult following.”
America. Pumpkins grew in abundance, Brew Works, with sites in “Everyone is making pumpkin beer
now,” he says “When we started we
so savvy brewers replaced harder-to- Bethlehem and Allentown, introduced were one of three. Now we’re one of
23 or more, depending on the store.”
28 | indulge • october/november 2015 grow malt ingredients with wannabe Devious Imperial Pumpkin five years
Joshua Lampe of Weyerbacher
jack-o'-lanterns. ago, Baden says. At 9 percent alcohol Brewery in Easton says that the
company has three fall selections
Because brewing converts sugar by volume (ABV) and what Baden calls this year: An 8 percent ABV Imperial
Pumpkin Ale, which includes
to alcohol and can strip flavor, those “big pumpkin pie spice,” it’s not for the cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and
clove; an Autumnfest, and Jester’s
beers likely didn’t have much faint of heart. “For the Devious,” he
pumpkin taste. says, “we were looking for something
That’s not the case today. that would define us in the market.
“We’re looking for the flavor, not the One way to do that was to go a little
sugar content,” explains Brewmaster bit stronger, a little spicy.”
Beau Baden of Fegley’s Brew Works. They offer a more subdued Pumpkin
“The predominant thing [in our pumpkin Ale, too, at 5.2 percent ABV. While it
