AUTUMN ADVENTURE--Indian summer is
fading and Fall’s true colors are beginning to show themselves-- the same
colors as the wide array of craft beers produced by the country’s small and
independent brewers this season. Just in time for fall festivities,
CraftBeer.com—the Brewers Association (BA) website for beer lovers—has curated
a list of these choice seasonal beers from their brewery members. Take the adventure taste an available NEW
seasonable brew from your favorite retailer.
“Fall
is one of the seasons craft brewers love best thanks to its rich and varied
crops and seasonal spices,” said Julia Herz, publisher of CraftBeer.com and
Brewers Association craft beer program director. “Small and independent brewers
utilize autumn’s selection of ingredients to create full-bodied beers with
flavor profiles to fit the more brisk fall weather.”
Looking
at annual data, seasonal beers peak in interest and sales every October thanks
to a signature fall flavor: pumpkin. Pumpkin beer is the undisputed heavyweight
champion of the seasonal world—Google searches for “pumpkin beer” alone triumph
over Google searches for all four seasonals (“winter beer” + “spring beer” +
“summer beer” + “fall beer”). Last year, pumpkin beers lead a surge in seasonal
sales, turning an estimated 125,000 lag in case sales into a 300,000 case
surplus that briefly put seasonals back at the front of the craft beer pack,
ahead of the ever popular India pale ale.
Make
it a crisp, crackling fall with some of these pumpkin beers and other tasty
seasonal offerings from U.S. craft brewers:
· Firestone Walker Brewing Co. | Oaktoberfest | Paso Robles, CA·
· Bear Republic Brewing Company, Inc. |
Racer X® | Sonoma County, CA
· Big Bay Brewing Company | Üfer
Oktoberfest Lager | Shorewood, WI
· Brewery Ommegang | Scythe & Sickle
| Cooperstown, NY
· DESTIHL Brewery | Samhain Pumpkin
Porter | Bloomington, IL
· Dust Bowl Brewing Co. | Black Blizzard
| Turlock, CA
· Evil Genius Beer Company | Trick or
Treat | West Grove, PA
. Ale Syndicate Brewers | Richie Imperial Porter | Chicago, IL
· Flat 12 Bierwerks | Flat Jack Pumpkin
| Indianapolis, IN
· Florida Beer Company | Gourd Shorts |
Cape Canaveral, FL
· Indeed Brewing Company | Sweet Yamma
Jamma Sweet Potato | Minneapolis
· Ithaca Beer Co. | Embrr Rye Porter |
Ithaca, NY
· Nebraska Brewing Company | Wick for
Brains Pumpkin Ale | La Vista, NE
For
the West Coast region, West Coaster
Magazine points out the following seasonals and semi-seasonals from California breweries:
--Dead Ringer Oktoberfest Lager /
Ballast Point / San Diego, CA
--Cedar Plank Pale Ale Hop Odyssey /
Green Flash / San Diego
--Celebration Fresh Hop IPA / Sierra
Nevada / Chico, CA
--Southern Hemisphere Harvest /
Sierra Nevada
--Harvest Wild Hop IPA / Sierra Nevada
OTHERS
--Witch’s Hair Pumpkin Ale / Twisted
Manzanita Ales / Santee, CA
--Nutbrown Ale / Alesmith / San
Diego
--Fall Release Imperial Red /
Lagunitas / Petaluma, CA
See
CraftBeer.com's “Fall Seasonals: 55 Craft Beer Releases” for a complete list of seasonal craft beer selections and descriptions. To round out your
autumn craft beer experience, consider a tour of your local independent
brewery.
The Brewspaper is a regular column appearing in Pillar to Post online magazine. This blog is a media partner with West Coaster, a Southern California-based craft beer centric print publication and website: www.westcoastersd.com.
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