It's the most wonderful time of year

 

Electrified citra hops with ripened melon sewn into orange rind and charged peach peels

 

 

Saint Arnold is King of the Pumpkin Beer (Prior King: Elysian 1996-2015. Long live Dick Cantwell)

2011 was the first year it was brewed seasonally after being part of their Divine Reserve series a couple years prior.  My pulpy memory still remembers it was the huge hit at the 2011 Great Pumpkin Beer Festival

Gather each witch

Tarnation

Caramel baked bread with toasted pear rinds and roasted candy apples.  Great brewery in a great city.  Reminds me of the Stone A.B. days.

twisting and turning with you

                                          Best. Band. Ever.

                                 ...so is the way of forever...

 

creamed pine cones, fruited peach roots, cidered mango salts... are those even things?

FiReStoNed (((age))) WaLKer

     Hazy grape honey starbursting into a tropical green apple mist

 

Kinda reminds me of mondo man.....

||| Hiatus Over |||

I don't know if the links on the right still work.  They'll remain as a testament to the cool, interesting, and foggy yesteryear.

 

 

I love you Em.... here's to keeping us going on until infinity... 19 years strong

https://cosmatomicblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/elysian-brewering-company-capitol-hill.html

 

2014-2023: Tons of good times with family, friends, food, beer, bands, and cats from Seattle to Houston

Dayman - Aleman / Two Brothers / Stone

Wasp honey hive karate chopped full of coffee pellets and pear rinds.

Seattle Beer Week 5th Anniversary Organic Pale Ale - Fremont Brewing Company

Seattle Beer Week on the horizon & Fremont sums up why the PNW rules:  Fresh and green.

Plucked from the equator.  Tropic resin crackers & mango waffle cones. 4.5%. 

Now my days aren't all overcast

Bourbon Barrel Imperial Porter - Schooner Exact Brewing Company

Creamed peanut butter and whipped whiskey mousse.  Carbonated purée of coconut & cocoa.

I feel reborn. I'm like a Phoenix rising from Arizona - Frank Costanza

Blight - Elysian Brewing

Toasted cinnamon & ginger crusted apple crisps. Sugar malted candy corns.  Your dentist cringes at the mere aroma of this beer.  7.4%.

The undisputed masters of pumpkin beers.  The end is beer.

Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter(s)

If brewing died off over tomorrow there is little doubt that beers under the 'Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter' category would be the first ones re-liquidated by Herbert West.

Pumpkin Junction

My long overdue first trip to Beer Junction conveniently coincides with their 1st annual pumpkin beer extravaganza.  Elysian are the Tyson of pumpkin beers but Puyallup's Jack O' Lahar was gingerbread torsos blended, blasphemied, and battered in boozed caramel icing. 

Pumpkin beer milkshakes?!

Elysian Dark O’ The Moon / Elysian The Great Pumpkin / Elysian Hop Squash / Epic Ales Pumpkin Pie / Puyallup Jack O’Lahar / Southern Tier Pumking / Midnight Sun TREAT / Ace Pumpkin / Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin / Uinta Punk’N

Before & After

Hansel And Gretel Ginger Pumpkin Pilsner

Noble gingerbread men drowned in lemon honey & roasted on peppered stakes. Buried in spiced capes under coffined earth. 4.5%.

Pumpkin Spice Ale - Two Beers Brewing

Two Beers is another one of Seattle's fine brewing establishments.

Buttery nutmeg pudding cauterized with clove and vanilla. 5.2%.

They're fun, they're frightening, and they glow in the dark.

Harvestous Mutation

Samuel Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale is all things pumpkin pie spice and just in time for the autumnal equinox. 5.7%.

Hazardous Mutation is necessary for any Halloween party mix. This mother's strong.

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ― Thoreau

Harvest Dance - Boulevard Brewing Co.

I don't think I've tried a beer from Boulevard that wasn't phenomenal.

Fluffy wheat infused grape wine and spiced gum. Creamed clove fused in whipped apple syrup,

Dry mango & banana toffee.  9.1%.

Wolf Girl of Devil's River

The Great Pumpkin - Elysian Brewing Company (2012)

 2010, 2009

Elysian Brewing's 8th Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival is right around the corner.

The countdown begins.

August

Dax Riggs, Pumpkin beers hitting the shelves, and Fremont Brewing cans available like water.

August starts off with a bang and hopefully ends with a kitty getting back to his manic self.

I hear seeds of an old pumpkin creakin'.

Update

 

A Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Snail

Lagunitas brews beers that are hazed and hopped.

Chambered spiced apricots.  Missiled citrus, torpedoed tangerine, and balsamic banana bombs.

Muzzled honey with a cannoned candy finish. 7.5%.

Snail's Blood is a riff DeLorean that will bring yours ears and mind back to the future of 90's Seattle.

When gas was under a buck, Congress and nosy sports writers hadn't ruined baseball yet, and William Pickard was tabbing third eye soundtracks.

1. Mental Models
2. Sleep
3. Underwater
4. Committed
5. Via/Penny Dreadful
6. Relief
7. Blood
8. Cleanliness
9. Screen
10. Not for Me
11. Blacklight

"Blurring vision is replaced by distinct rocking and tilting sensation.  I don't seem to be tilting but the room is, side to side." - The Tingler