Episode 28: Blue Moon Harvest Moon – Do I see the great pumpkin around?

This week we start our mini-series on Pumpkin beers with Blue Moon’s Harvest Moon. So get ready for Halloween with us.

News

The raw goods needed to make beer, including the barley and hops are going up in price. I have read that this may increase prices as much as 25 percent on a six pack. Now the trick here is that some of the beers that we talk about use more hops that some of the lighter beers, and may actually go up even more in cost. Just something to really keep your eye on over the next couple months.

Great American Beer Festival

Once a year most of the brewing world in America stops and goes to the Great American Beer Festival in Colorado to have their beers judged and sampled by one and all. This year, there were 450 brewers pouring various beers of all kinds of styles there. Some of the noted winners include Victory Prima Pils which one a silver medal in German style Pilsnener, 312 Urban Wheat Ale from Goose Island Beer Company, and Troegenator from Troegs brewing company in Harrisburg, PA one a gold for Bock style.

Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale

• This weeks beer comes from Coors Brewing Company, perhaps you’ve heard of them.
• The Blue Moon brand came about in the Sandlot Brewery, which is the brewery at Coors Field, home of the hottest team in MLB right now.
• You may recall, or want to go back and download our previous show on just regular old Blue Moon, which we covered several months ago in our Hefeweizen series.
• The distribution for this beer is pretty damned fantastic. It is one of those beers that if you can’t get it, then you must live in the middle of no where and just can’t get any beer.
• Now, lets talk about this little beer here. It weighs in at around 5.6% abv, and is generally released in the fall, so you should be able to get it say from September to November.
• The taste is kind of malty with a spiciness to it that you would kind of expect from the season; cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and pumpkins.

Next Week

Well, next week we will be doing a semi-live show. Jake is coming out to Chicago and we will be recording a show or two while we are actually both in the same state, yeah its a novel idea we know. We will be covering our last pumpkin beer next week, Dogfish Heads Punk.

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