![]() ![]() ![]() Great Pumpkin, Dark o’ the Moon, and Punkuccino, in addition to Night Owl, are available August through the end of October in select U.S. ![]() Each beer incorporates the choicest pumpkins and spices with its own recipe and ingredients creating four unique, complex, and delicious pumpkin beers spanning our favorite fall flavors, from spicy cinnamon to roast and coffee notes.” “Along with Night Owl, our flagship pumpkin beer, we offer The Great Pumpkin Imperial Pumpkin Ale, Punkuccino Coffee Pumpkin Ale, and Dark o’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout. Finally, the beer is bittered with Magnum and finished with Saaz and crushed cinnamon, resulting in a spookily smooth fall beer that will have you howling for more. Brewed with Great Western pale, Crisp 77° Crystal, Munich, Cara-Vienne, roasted, chocolate and Special B malts with roasted pumpkin seeds in the mash and pumpkin added in the mash, kettle and fermenter. On RateBeer, it scores 3.47 out of 5 and is in their 92nd percentile.Dark o’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout Dark o’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout (7.5% ABV)Ī slight smokiness on the nose with malty bittersweet chocolatey flavors, Dark o’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout pours dark as night with a creamy tan head. On BeerAdvocate, it scores an overall grade of B+. Better than many, but definitely “commercialized.” Overall: Not as good as when I first had it. Mouthfeel: Crisp, medium-bodied but clean-filtered. Decent, but more “amber ale” than pumpkin from what I remember. Touch of cinnamon at the back of the throat. Taste: Malty amber base with caramel malts and light on the spicing. Some cooked-pumpkin aromas as well, I think, punctuated by caramel. Smell: Nice, sweet brown sugar and pumpkin pie spices. It’s still one of the best examples of pumpkin beer available.Īppearance: Orange-tinted amber and very clear thinnish light tan head. Let me clear though: this is in no way a bad beer. I suspect part of the issue is that this beer is jointly brewed with New Belgium Brewing (where they can brew larger batches), and the New Belgium brewing processes account for the “change.” I would love to try Night Owl on tap as long as it came out of the Elysian brewery in Seattle, so I could compare. Filtering a pumpkin beer strips away the essential pumpkin characteristics, which give it body and mouthfeel that help to buffer against the harsher notes that spices by themselves can lend to a beer. What I mean when I say is, the beer doesn’t have that “artisanal” character that I remember, instead seeming as though it’s gone through more commercialized industrial processes like filtration.Īnd you all know I think a pumpkin beer should never be filtered. But since then (and especially this year), I noticed there was something different-it has taken on a more filtered, “clean” quality-I want to say “commercialized” because that’s how I think of it, though there’s nothing wrong with being “commercial” with a beer. Back in 2008 when I first reviewed it, it was a pure rave: I declared that it “might well be my new favorite pumpkin beer.” Indeed, it was a first-class pumpkin beer. To be honest, I have mixed feeling about Night Owl these days. So (again, my own rules!) I’ve extended the Week long enough to include this review. NovemBy Jon Abernathy | Filed in Reviews, Theme WeekĮven though by my own rules Pumpkin Beer Week ended last week, I still had a bottle of Elysian Brewing’s Night Owl Pumpkin Ale to review. ![]()
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