Technology has been pretty good about keeping people connected during the pandemic, but I’m pretty hopeful that next year will be all in person all the time! As a horse.” It’s good.įor 2022, we still had our Bend friends zooming in, but all of us Eugene folks had dinner and beers together. Ghost Fish’s Lunar Harvest (gluten free) – 1.8.Elysian’s Dark o’ the Moon – 2.214285.“I guess I don’t taste the lipton.” Smells like a patch. Cinnamon! “Really spicy, burning my lips.” Way too spicy. Pumpkin pie from Costco – a step up! (I think this is in reference to comments made on Laurelwood’s Pumpkin Ale, see below). McKenzie Brewing’s Pumpkin Ale – 2.875.Discussion on how Trader Joes does things well, but too spicy (food, not beer). Improved – it used to taste like licking a pumpkin. Jacque then explained if human breasts make lactose. There’s lactose, do human breasts make lactose? Dr. “I do like it, but unpumpkiny.” Unremarkable. “I’d think it’s like a red ale.” Fire roasted pumpkin. “Party in my mouth.” I don’t taste marshmallow,” “I do at the beginning…,” “I do at the end!” “Tastes like gingerbread – makes me want to build gingerbread houses.” Sour pumpkin beer shouldn’t be good, but it’s good. “I kind of taste the pumpkin for the 1st year!” Most bubbly – champagne yeast? Bubbly but not impressed. pFriem’s Pumpkin Bier – 3.714285(repeating of course).Elysian’s Night Owl – 3.83(repeating of course).Elysian’s The Great Pumpkin – 3.916(repeating of course). You can tell by our salty comments below that we weren’t quite as innocent as in previous years. We also had a couple extras, so we did a blind taste test (I can’t remember how this worked), but in my notes it shows that Night Owl Blinded earned 4.1 and Howling Gourds Blinded earned 3.5.Ģ021 (the year we shared our strong opinions):Ģ021 felt a bit more normal that 2020, but we still weren’t all together in person (the Eugene crew got together, but the Bend friends didn’t make it, so they zoomed in). Really fun description, metallic, spice smell, not a lot of flavor? Good art. Ghost Fish Lunar Harvest (gluten free) – 2.2857.Tastes like a pumpkin, metallic, fresher, like biting into frost bitten pumpkin. McKenzie Brewing Co’s Pumpkin Ale – 2.7142.Oklahoma beer, pumpkin blood, goosebumps in a bad way, small sips. Prairie Artisian Ale’s Basic Becky – 2.7142.Smell fantastic, sweet, dessert, pumpkin gingerbread cookies. Mild flavor, classic pumpkin spice, easy drinking. Isn’t it strange to look back at memories of late 2019 and see how young and innocent we all were? We didn’t know that it would be our last in-person Pumpkin Brew Fest for a few years. Next year we might need to overhaul our rating system, but that’s next year Carolyn’s problem. Though, this year we had a pretty thorough discussion about the efficacy of our scale and how we need to be more specific about if we’re rating it as a beer, a pumpkin beer, or a pumpkinbeer. For years past follow these links: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015ĥ points: I would drink more of this RIGHT NOW, and never want to drink anything else.Ĥ points: I would totally drink this again and again.ģ points: I would drink this if someone offered it to me, but probably wouldn’t buy it.Ģ points: Would drink if the only choices were this and Bud. I also found the notes from 20, so I’m adding those results on this post, too. We tried some classics, and we tried some new ones.
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