Fruited coppery autumnal merriment situates zesty red apple, purple grape, and brown pear ripeness atop redolent pumpkin-spiced floral hops to buttery biscuit-y malt spine. Comfy toasted barley, cracked wheat, and dry tobacco efficacy fortifies peach-y pineapple sweetness and caressing almondine dash.
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(CASCO BAY) CARRABASSETT HARVEST ALE
IPSWICH HARVEST ALE
RAMAPO VALLEY OCTOBERFEST LAGER
WEIHENSTEPHANER FESTBIER
CASCO BAY OKTOBERFEST
’99 tasting: Cordial vegetative autumnal plies dried barley and husked wheat bittering above clementine orange souring as fresh cut grass, hay, and cowhide consume nose. A chummy ‘ur-Marzen’ Munich lager. ’05 tasting: Antiseptic pumpkin-spiced ruby red grapefruit-sweetened mocha-tinged mediocrity accrues nasty backend acidity.
JERSEY HARVEST ALE
RED HOOK LATE HARVEST AUTUMN ALE
WEYERBACHER AUTUMN FEST ALE
CROOKED RIVER PUMPKIN HARVEST ALE
Aromatic pumpkin pie sweetness gathers bitter-hopped gourd essence punctuated by cinnamon-nutmeg spicing. Sharper and richer than most pumpkin ales, though sweeter honeyed spicing would be welcome.








