Fall has arrived at Glacier BrewHouse — and so has our Imperial Pumpkin Ale! 
Crafted with pumpkin pie in mind, this bold seasonal ale captures everything we love about autumn. Our brewers teamed up with the BrewHouse Pastry Chef to blend real pumpkin with a warming mix of cinnamon and allspice, creating a smooth, full-bodied beer that’s both rich and refreshing.
Brilliant pumpkin-orange in color and served in a snifter to bring out its aromatic spice, the Imperial Pumpkin Ale is a true fall favorite. Each batch is a little different — because every pumpkin harvest brings its own character — but one thing never changes: no artificial flavors, just pure craft.
Stop by the Glacier BrewHouse, grab a pint (or a snifter), and celebrate the season with a beer that’s been perfected — one pumpkin at a time. #GlacierBrewHouse #ImperialPumpkinAle #AnchorageBeer #FallOnTap #DrinkLocal #AlaskaBrews #PumpkinSeason

Pumpkin Beer
1.) What Is a Pumpkin Beer?
Pumpkin Beer is a beer with pumpkin or pumpkin spice flavors or winter squash added in the beer. This is a seasonal beer, which comes out every year around the autumn season. It is extremely popular with American craft brewers. Pumpkin ales are the dominant style; however, some variations of Pumpkin Lagers, Stouts, IPAs, and Radlers are also available. These beers are bitter, spicy, malty-sweet, with colors ranging from pale to very dark. The fruit has almost no flavor profile by itself, so brewers often add spices found in pumpkin pie, like cinnamon, clove, or nutmeg, to enhance the flavors of the beer.

2.) History: How It Became One of the Most Loved Beers
With the commencement of the fall season every year, shelves across American supermarkets get flooded with pumpkin-spiced beers. But pumpkin beer didn’t hit off in the right way. It has gradually gone uphill over the last three decades. Brewing Pumpkin beer first started in North America, somewhere between 7000 and 5500 BC. Native Americans introduced pumpkins to early settlers. Winters at the time were hard, and some people even lost their lives to brick cold winters. Settlers found fermentable sugars in the meat of pumpkins, hence making use of them in brewing beers. Around 1985, Buffalo Bill’s Brewery decided to brew the original pumpkin ale. This started a surge in the pumpkin beer category. Today, pumpkin ales are a much loved and enjoyed style of beer.

3.) Our Imperial Pumpkin Beer
With Pumpkin Pie in mind this beer will remind you of fall. Our brewers Worked with our BrewHouse Chef to combine
pumpkin with an array of spices. Flavors of pumpkin, cinnamon and allspice come together for a fall delight. Brilliant
pumpkin-orange in color. Served in a snifter. Alcohol: 8.12% by volume. Starting gravity: 18.6 Plato (1.077 S.G.)
This beer changes just slightly every year because so much of this recipe comes from spices and real pumpkin. Every growing season creates different sugar strains within the Pumpkin. So it can change the Alcohol percentage and flavor
profile of the Beer.

NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS ARE USED IN THIS BEER.

I worked with our former Pastry Chef to design this beer after Pumpkin Pie. We added Lactose to the beer to give the beer a taste of Whipped Cream. The spice blend is designed after a pumpkin pie recipe. We also threw in a bucket of honey just because we could. Are you ready for the Gourd-eous time of year?

Did you know if you look into a mirror and say Pumpkin Spice Latte three times fast. A white chick in Yoga pants will show up and tell you all her favorite things about Fall.

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