Less than on week until Pumpkin Fest 2008! This Saturday October 25th 2008 will be the first ever Pumpkin Ale Fest here at North Wales. We will be tapping a Pumpkin full of Ichabod Imperial Belgian Pumpkin Ale at 5:00 p.m. (Yes, beer from a pumpkin) The Wizards in the kitchen have put together a full menu of pumpkin love and we’ll have pumpkin beer from other breweries including The Pumpkin Ale from IHB West Chester, Dark O’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout from our friends at Elysian in Seattle (full description below) and a bit of the Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale.  We sent some Ichabod Imperial Pumpkin out to Elysian in exchange for their beer and the folks out there when crazy for it. There is even a great review on Rate Beer from their Pumpkin Fest, check it out.

For those of you doing Big Brew at Keystone Homebrew, Doug and I are planning on being there too… so you should be able to do both. We will be going straight from homebrewing to North Wales to tap the pumpkin.

Since his year’s pumpkin ICHABOD ALE is Imperial Belgian Pumpkin Ale, hat means it’s big. At 10% ABV it’s actually really, REALLY, big. We had a bunch of help brewing it from a couple of our staff members, Pete and Lacey. The brew day came of without a hitch and we had a blast adding tons of brewing sugar, over 100 pounds of pumpkin, lots of spice, and our House Belgian ale yeast. It took two mashes to fill the kettle so we could get all of the extract we needed. Here’s a little video clip of Doug adding the very last of the pumpkin meat to the mash.

On tap from Elysian will be Dark o’ the Moon Pumpkin Stout

 

Stop in and join us for a pint or 3. Should be a good time.