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Elysian Pumpkin Beer Festivals Announced

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All throughout the Seattle area, Elysian Brewing will be doing more to promote pumpkin beer than any other brewery in history, or as they put it, “where [they] boldly go where no other brewery has gone before.” At the 2nd Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival, they will have ten pumpkin beers available at each of their three locations, some of which sound positively spooky.
 

THE BEER LINEUP:

From Elysian:

  • Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
  • The Great Pumpkin Imperial Ale
  • Dark o’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout
  • Purple Pumpkineater Lavender Saison
  • Kürbitinus-Pumpkindunkelhefeweizenbock
  • Portergeist-Smoked porter with pumpkin
  • Steamy Hollow California Common Pumpkin Beer

Guest Beers:

  • Dogfish Head Punkin
  • Rock Bottom Seattle Punk’in (Cap. Hill & Fields only)
  • Big Time Hop Goblin
  • Snoqualmie Extra Special Butternut (Elysian-Cap. Hill only)

Here are the details for each event:

Elysian: Capitol Hill
1221 E Pike 206-860-1920
Saturday, October 21st, 12 noon – 10pm

Elysian Fields
542 1st Ave S 206-382-4498
Saturday, October 28th, 12 noon – 10 pm

Elysian: TangleTown
2106 N 55th 206-547-5929
Monday, October 23rd through Friday, October 27th

Here is more information from the press release:

Sampler Trays, Pumpkin Carving and (drum roll please), the tapping of the pumpkin conditioned pumpkin beer (at 4pm).

Once again we have filled pumpkins with beer (this year it is the Portergeist) to go through a secondary fermentation in the pumpkin. We will tap the pumpkins with traditional English cask taps at 4pm on Saturday Oct 21st & Saturday Oct 28th

Pumpkin Carving starting at Noon.
Pumpkins will be available on a first come/first serve basis. There will be awards for the best pumpkin carving.

Stoudt’s 20th Birthday Bash

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4.28

Stoudt’s 20th Birthday Bash

Stoudt Brewery, 2800 North Reading Road, Route 272, Adamstown, Pennsylvania
717.484.4387 [ website ]

From the press release:

We will be hosting a 20th Birthday Bash in the Stoudt’s Biergarten on April 28th from 7-11. Come enjoy the beer, food, music and share your favorite Stoudt’s memories.

Stoudt’s Birthday Beer Dinner

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4.27

Stoudt’s Birthday Beer Dinner

Stoudt Brewery, 2800 North Reading Road, Route 272, Adamstown, Pennsylvania
717.484.4387 [ website ]

From the press release:

A beer dinner will be held Friday April 27th starting at 6:00pm. Music, four course dinner, release of a special brew and Stoudt’s beer memories.

Dogfish Head: The Return of Four Big Beers

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Dogfish Head announced today the re-release of four of their biggest beers over the next couple of months.

  1. Now: World Wide Stout
  2. Now: Olde School Barleywine
  3. Early November: Pangaea
  4. Late November: Fort

The beautiful label for Fort, “a strong ale brewed with a ridiculous amount of pureed raspberries (over a ton of em!),” by fine artist Tara McPherson.

Stoudt’s Seasonals … and More

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Stoudt’s Brewing of Adamstown, Pennsylvania has announced expansion plans. According to their press release, at the end of the year they will increase the size of their fermentation cellar by 25%.

And by the holiday season, 750 ml cork finished bottles will return with the release of two styles. Fat Dog Imperial Oatmeal Stout and Old Abominable Barleywine, both aged in whiskey barrels, will be available at the brewery.

Also, Stoudt’s holiday seasonal this year will be Chocolate Nut Brown Winter Ale. “This cocoa infused, highly aromatic brew will be tapped in November.”

 

Stoudt’s Brewery in Adamstown, Pennsylvania