Where?
Cambridge Brewing Company
One Kendall Square, Cambridge
When?
October 31st, Halloween
4:00pm to Midnight
How?
A $10 cover gets you an official 16oz. Great Pumpkin Festival glass, and a map with beer descriptions and a layout of the event. Beers will be available, via the purchase of beer tickets, in 4, 8, 12, and 16oz. pours (with some limitations on high alcohol or limited supply beers).

Our patio will become a Beer Garden with 6 guest beers plus an all-night grill with handfoods from Chef David. Inside, the CBC Bar will serve CBC’s 6 pumpkin creations, plus our house beers (for the gourd-phobic). Our back dining room will become the Brewhouse Bar, complete with another 8 taps of guest beers. A limited menu will be available indoors at the bar and limited seating in our front dining room. This is a Beer Fest on Halloween! Come in costume, or we’ll taunt you mercilessly.

Of course, the Great Pumpkin will be obliged to make an appearance – a 200# giant, ghostly white pumpkin filled with “cask” pumpkin beer, tapped sacrificially by robed monks and offered to the crowds at 10pm.

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Great Pumpkin Festival Update!

Ok kids, here’s the full beer list for the Fest:

CBC Great Pumpkin Ale 4.2%
CBC Spinal Pumpkin Barleywine 11.0%
CBC Biere de Gourde (French farmhouse pumpkin beer) 5.5%
CBC Olde Pumpkin Porter (the O.P.P.) 6.8%
CBC Ich Bin Ein Kurbisweisse (Berlin-style tart wheat beer with pumpkin) 4.2%
CBC Black Magic Stout (dry stout with pumpkin, ancho pepper, cacao nibs, whole cinnamon, served on cask!) 3.8%

The Alchemist (Waterbury, VT) Uncle Daddy (Pumpkin weizenbock with vanilla beans and nutmeg) 7.0%
Allagash Brewing Co. (Portland, ME) Ghouleschip (The world’s first pumpkin lambic, produced last Halloween in their famous coolship. A world premier!) 7.0%
The Bruery (Placentia, CA) Autumn Maple (Brewed with yams, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup.) 10.0%
Cape Ann Brewing Co. (Gloucester, MA) Pumpkin Stout (With Pumpkin, Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Allspice) 7.0%
Cisco Brewers (Nantucket, MA) Pumple Drumkin (fresh Nantucket pumpkins from Bartlett’s Farm, lightly spiced) 7.0%
Clipper City Brewing Company (Baltimore, MD) Heavy Seas: The Great Pumpkin (imperial pumpkin ale with 3oz. of spice per bbl., and fresh pumpkin in the mash) 8.5%
Dogfish Head Brewery (Milton, DE) Punkin’ Ale (A full-bodied brown ale with pumpkin, organic brown sugar, and spices.) 7.0%
Elysian Brewing Company (Seattle, WA) Mr. Yuck (Sour ale aged ten months with second-generation sour Belgian yeast blend, with pumpkin in the mash and kettle.) 5.1%
Elysian Brewing Company (Seattle, WA) Jack o’ Bite (Barrel aged Scottish ale with pumpkin in the mash, kettle and fermenter; aged in Jack Daniel’s and wine barrels for 6 weeks, inoculated with yeast from Rodenbach) 6.4%
Elysian Brewing Company (Seattle, WA) Hansel & Gretel (Ginger Pumpkin Pilsner spiced with peeled and pureed fresh ginger in the boil and bright tank and hopped with lots of Czech Saaz hops) 4.5%
Iron Hill (West Chester, PA) Punktoberfest (Uber Oktoberfest version of the famous fall lager brewed with pumpkin, vanilla and cinnamon, noble hops.) 7.0%
Martha’s Exchange (Nashua, NH) Pumpkinweizen (45% wheat malt to 55% barley malt, cinnamon and nutmeg, pureed fresh pumpkin added to the mash tun and kettle. Fermented with Weihenstephen’s yeast strain.) 5.1%
Southern Tier (Lakewood, NY) Pumking (An ode to Púca, a creature of Celtic folklore, in the spirit of All Hallows Eve, a time of year when spirits can make contact with the physical world and when magic is most potent.) 7.9%
Uinta Brewing Company (Salt Lake City, UT) Punk’n (Crafted with real pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Brewed with 100% wind power in Salt Lake City) 4%.
Weyerbacher Brewing Co. (Easton, PA) Imperial Pumpkin Ale (Imperial Pumpkin Ale with lots of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom and clove, and big full-bodied flavor.) 8.0%

Also on tap for the gourd-phobic:
CBC Regatta Golden
CBC Cambridge Amber
CBC Tall Tale Pale Ale
CBC Charles River Porter
CBC St. Alphonso Single

Chef David Drew’s Menus for the evening:

Pumpkin Fest Beer Garden Grill Menu
Choice of Grilled Bratwurst, Grilled Bockwurst, or Grilled Bauernwurst Served with Pumpkin Ale Braised Sauerkraut, Beer Mustard, Pretzel Roll
Grilled Flatbread with Pumpkin, Raisin and Apple Chutney. Crispy Kale, Great Hill Bleu Cheese and Duck Confit
Marinated Autumn Vegetable Skewer with Pumpkin Seed Pesto, Beet Juice Cous Cous

Pumpkin Fest Ltd. Menu
Pumpkin Apple Bisque, Beer Brown Bread Croutons, Cinnamon Crème Fraiche
Autumn Salad, Butter Brook Farms Greens, Roasted Pumpkin, Apples, Vermont Cheddar, Cranberries, Hazelnuts, Apple Cider Vinaigrette
Pumpkin Pizza, Garlic Confit, Fingerling Potato, Kale, Vermont Goat Cheese
All Natural ½ Pound Burger, Great Hill Bleu Cheese, House Pumpkin Pickles
Sauteed Gulf Shrimp, Crispy Pumpkin Polenta, Baby Spinach, Chorizo Cream
Pumpkin Ravioli, Pumpkin Seed Pesto Cream, Heirloom Apples, Whole Wheat Croutons
Pork Tenderloin Scnitzle, Pumpkin Spaetzle, Broccolini, Apple Cider Cream
Pumpkin Bread Pudding, Pumpkin Ale Ice Cream, House Butterscotch
Pumpkin Pie Fritters, Cinnamon Buttercream, Pumpkin Curd