![]() ![]() ![]() Not too spicy, not too sweet, and not like any pumpkin beer you’ve had before. It works well with tart and sweet in balance with pumpkin spices that lean a little toward apple pie. ![]() Their Prairie Pumpkin Kerfuffle is an imperial sour with pumpkin pie spice blend and toasted marshmallow flavor. Chase is the brewer and his brother, Colin, is responsible all of their fun and funky branding and logo design. In 2012, Chase and Colin Healey raised more than $20,000 on Kickstarter to launch Prairie Artisan Ales in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Peaks and Pints currently has several pumpkin beers in our cooler, which means we can offer a to-go flight of pumpkin beer, we could even call it “Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pumpkin Beer On the Fly.” Peaks and Pints Pilot Program: Pumpkin Beer On the Fly Prairie Pumpkin Kerfuffle Breweries would also much rather roll out their seasonal beers too early and run out than be left with extra product after the season is over. And when you finally go on that August beach trip, all you can find are parkas. That makes the beer industry surprisingly similar to fashion: When you’re still wearing your winter coat, bikinis start popping up on the racks. That means restaurants and bars that don’t have a place to store extra kegs for a month or two are out of luck if they want to serve this seasonal specialty in the proper season. Before the leaves turn yellow and it’s time to start wearing grey socks with Birkenstocks again, many of the most sought-after brands’ pumpkin beers will be long gone. I think you will be surprised too.Like “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” at Forever 21 and candy corn at 7-Eleven, pumpkin beer arrives earlier and earlier every year. It did have a kind of weird flavor with the addition of the pumpkin seeds, but it all seemed to work together surprisingly well. I hesitate to say this is the best pumpkin brew I’ve had, as I have tended to like each one I’ve tried better than the last, but this was very good. Not too sweet, slightly bitter, spicy and fully in the spirit of the season. It was the seeds! This brew takes the best of a pumpkin pie type brew and adds in the roasted flavor of the pumpkin seeds! It was wonderful. The nose is spicy, with pumpkin, and a tinge of a acrid odor that I couldn’t really place until I took a taste. And it was those seeds that made all the difference in my opinion. Sounds just like a pumpkin pie with seeds and alcohol added. The label says this is a pumpkin brew made with 7 pounds of pumpkin per batch, pumpkin seeds, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and allspice, and it sits at 5.9% ABV. It is pretty available out here, as it is brewed in Seattle, Washington so I gave it a try.Īs you can see it poured a hazy brown orange color with about a one finger tan head that litterally dissipated as I turned around to put the can opener away. I had heard really good things about the Elysian Pumpkin Ale. Not exactly jumping in with both feet, but I do have an Autumn Maple for Thanksgiving Dinner. So far this year I’ve had 3 to last year’s 1. This year I have done a little more experimenting with Pumpkin brews than last. So Carrot Top is wierd, but he is surprisingly good at his craft…just like the beer I had last night… His off the cuff critique of the contestants was funnier than just about anything they came up with. I watched a total of one episode of this show last year and the one I saw was where the comedians were turned loose in a Bed, Bath, and Beyond and told to come up with a prop humor skit in 90 minutes. I was convinced of his abilities this last season on Last Comic Standing. He has his own show that runs at the Luxor Hotel in Vegas and has a list as long as your arm of various television appearances…oh, and did I mention he’s funny? Whether you like prop humor or not, it is hard to watch part of his act without smiling and getting a chuckle if not solid belly laugh. And let’s face for all his foibles and oddities he is a pretty funny comedian. Carrot Top is perhaps one of the most recognizable figures in America, next to Ronald McDonald. Just slightly out of sync with the rest of society. Well, has he let himself go?…or not? It is kind of hard to tell in some cases, like that of Carrot Top. I didn't know that Carrot Top lost his lower legs in a freak land mine accident? ![]()
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