There’s a hint of graham cracker, sweet pumpkins, fall spices, and maybe a little nutty sweetness. This beer literally smells like a pumpkin pie. The palate is a little better with a decent malt backbone, but it was more of the over-the-top wintry spices like allspice and cinnamon. But those aromas were so strong that I didn’t notice anything else.
It’s heavy on cinnamon, ginger, and vanilla. This beer smells like you just got trapped in a closet filled with pumpkin spice candles at Yankee Candle. Overall, this beer doesn’t know if it wants to be spicy, sweet, or even taste like pumpkin. The taste was more of the same with a cavalcade of spices as well as an overly sweet caramel flavor. But they left little to no actual beer or even pumpkin aroma to be found. Allspice, cinnamon, ginger, the whole game was there. Immediately a parade of wintry spices hit my nose. While I don’t like overly spiced, sweet pumpkin beers, this one almost had no flavor at all. Drinking it revealed more muted pumpkin and maybe some cinnamon and nutmeg. There’s maybe a hint of cooked pumpkin and some cinnamon, but not much else. In fact, it barely smells like pumpkin beer. This doesn’t smell like any pumpkin beer I’ve ever had. It’s surprisingly complex and flavorful for a pumpkin ale. The palate is filled with flavors like raisins, vanilla beans, caramel, bready malts, and ripe pumpkin. Taste 2 Christopher OsburnĬomplex aromas of dried fruits, pumpkin, cinnamon, allspice, oak, and sweet caramel met my nose before the first sip. Even with all of the various flavors, everything seemed to be in proper balance. The palate was more of the same with ginger, cinnamon, vanilla, and sweet, cooked pumpkin taking center stage. Keep scrolling to see how everything turned out.Īromas of butterscotch, cinnamon, ginger, caramel malts, and a healthy dose of baked pumpkin greet my nose before my first sip. We found eight of these pumpkin-fueled brews and instead of simply kicking back and drinking them while we watched early-season NFL games and waited for fall to arrive, we decided to nose them, taste them, and rank them. That means that when late summer and early autumn arrive, there’s a veritable cornucopia of options for pumpkin beer almost anywhere beer is sold. Regardless of how you feel about it, breweries all over the country release their versions every fall. This probably has something to do with the phenomenon whereby pumpkin beers seem to either be lightly flavored with pumpkin and have just a hint of spice, and have just enough complementary flavors to even everything out, orrrr they’re the flavor palate equivalent of a pumpkin spice candy exploding in a beer can. Whether it’s an ale, lager, stout, or something else, pumpkin-flavored beer is either beloved and eagerly awaited or derided and despised, without much in-between. In the end though Night owl is just one of the perfect pumpkin beers to enjoy in your pajamas while watching Hocus Pocus for the 13th time and enjoying the crisp fall breeze from outside.When it comes to beer, there are none quite as divisive as the fall seasonal infused with pumpkin. I think anyone with an affinity towards pumpkin flavored drinks will enjoy this, and if you have friends that don’t typically enjoy beer then this is a great drink for them as there’s not that typically malty or hoppy bite to it that you find in most other beers. Yes, there is definitive pumpkin flavor but the inclusion of nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, ginger, and allspice bring a balance to it. Let’s talk flavor now, Night Owl may seem extremely pumpkin by now, based on everything you’ve read, but you would be wrong. When buying this beer in bottle form keep in mind that it’s not filtered and this can often lead to sediment floating around in your drink so don’t be surprised if you get a little surprise while drinking. The head of these Fall brews from Elysian is their Night Owl pumpkin ale, probably one of the most mass distributed pumpkin beers from them that can be found practically anywhere.Īs you already read from the brewer’s notes, this beer is brewed with over 7lbs of pumpkin per barrel, which is insane. Elysian fully embraces this with a huge lineup of seasonal brews. Fall brings us one of the best seasons for brewers all over the world as there are some signature flavor profiles naturally associated with this wonderful season. Spooky skeletons, crunchy multicolored leaves, Halloween, and of course pumpkins signal us that Fall has arrived.
Bittered with Magnum hops and spiced in conditioning with nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, ginger and allspice. of pumpkin per barrel and includes seven different malt varieties, green and roasted pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin in the mash, boil and fermenter.
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