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Pumpkinyness score: 2.6 Overall score: 3.53 THE SECOND BEST EVEN THOUGH IT DIDN’T REALLY TASTE LIKE PUMPKIN Fuck you, soap beer.Ĭat: Is this beer? Or did they push suds from the brewery floor into a urinal?
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Low levels of pumpkin flavor and overall taste, but high levels of visceral reaction.ĭave: Smells like a science experiment, tastes like soap. Pumpkinyness score: 2.18 Overall score: 1.71 Pat: Has a mysterious darkness that I want more of. This brew boasted the highest overall score AND the highest rating for “pumpkiny-ness.” It’s a bold, boozy, well balanced beer that elicited some very, ehrm, sensual reactions from our panel. In a blind taste test, we rated the beers on a 1-5 scale by “pumpkiny-ness,” overall taste and drinkability. There has been an explosion of pumpkin beers in the last couple years, so to determine which ( if any - ed.) one was worth your hard-earned drinking dollars, we gathered a group of 11 beer experts, appreciators and self-proclaimed PSL-loving #basic bitches to test seventeen of these autumnal brews we rounded up at Prospect Heights Beer Works, the NSA Supermarket on Washington Avenue, Covenhoven and the Park Place Deli. Your local bodega may have been stocking pumpkin beers since your last few summer Fridays, but it’s finally seasonally appropriate to indulge. Like it or not, autumn is here to stay (for the next 3-4 weeks until we enter the next ice age that will last for goddamn-ever-ugggghh-winter-you-are-the-WORST), so it means that pumpkin beer is too. And, of course, the influx of pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING. The existential crises that result from seeing literal death all around you. The satisfying crunch of leaves under your favorite boots that you’ve missed wearing all summer.
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For journalism! All photos by Patrick Phillips.Īhhh, autumn.