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Coming This Fall: Serious Pumpkin, an Elysian Brewing-Tom Douglas Collaboration Beer

The TDR folks partner on yet another brew, this one made with three kinds of pumpkin.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Aug 25, 2011 at 01:08PM 0 Comments

In addition to drinking pumpkin beer, you can dress your dog up in a pumpkin costume. Because this is America.

Photo: Wondercostumes.com

Elysian Brewing Company’s brewer-in-chief Dick Cantwell revealed yesterday that he is working with the folks at Tom Douglas Restaurants to create Serious Pumpkin, a beer featuring three varieties of America’s favorite gourd.

The squashes will be sourced from the Douglas family’s Prosser Farm, which is already supplying sour cherries for another forthcoming TDR beer. Serious Pumpkin should make the Bravehorse Tavern menu later this fall, according to Cantwell, and will possibly pop up at other T-Doug joints. (One could not be blamed for expecting to see it at Serious Pie, given the name.)

It will also be one of the more than 50 pumpkin beers poured at Elysian’s Great Pumpkin Beer Festival, to be held on October 8 and 9 at Elysian’s new Georgetown brewery, where no beer has yet been brewed. The brewery is expected to go into operation within the next few weeks.

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Tags: Beer Festivals, Pumpkin, Seattle Beer, Seasonal Beers

Weekend Plans: Elysian’s Great Pumpkin Beer Festival

Pumpkin ales are an American original. Try 40 this weekend on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Oct 13, 2010 at 08:49AM 0 Comments

Welcome, Great Pumpkin.

This weekend, October 16 and 17, Elysian Brewing holds its annual pumpkin beer festival. This is what happens: Over 40 different pumpkin beers are poured, there is pumpkin carving, and—on 4pm on both days—Elysian taps a massive pumpkin filled with the brewery’s own fragrant, spicy Great Pumpkin Ale.

There are also pumpkin food specials on the menu.

If you’ve never had pumpkin ales, go give them a try. These beers are American originals, invented here just as surely as were Twinkies and the Tea Party. They are often spiced with pumpkin-pie spices like allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger—the flavors of fall, in other words. They tend towards malty but sweetness varies as does pumpkiny-ness.

The festival takes place at Elysian Brewing on Capitol Hill.

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Tags: Capitol Hill, Beer Festivals, Pumpkin