The CBC 2010 Great Pumpkin Festival is Just Days Away!

This year’s festival will feature over thirty different pumpkin ales including eight CBC pumpkin brews and at least twenty-four guest brews. The night will also feature pumpkin and Oktoberfest inspired cuisine as well as the 10p.m. ceremonial tapping of The Great Pumpkin, a giant pumpkin filled with our Great Pumpkin Ale. Admission is $10 and includes a limited edition festival glass and an event map. Doors open at 4pm.
Sorry, no Advanced Reservations are available.

You Can Check Out the Menus, The Beers and The Details Below.
See you on Saturday!

The Great Pumpkin Festival Beer List

CBC PUMPKIN BEERS: All available at CBC’s Main Bar

THE GREAT PUMPKIN
The beer that started all the madness, first crafted in 1990! Brewed with fresh, local organic sugar pumpkins from The Farm School and Wilson Farms and gently spiced with cinnamon and allspice. Celebrate 20 years of the Great Pumpkin Ale!
ABV: 4.2% Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

BLACK MAGIC – Cask-conditioned Pumpkin Stout
A rich milk stout infused with fresh pumpkin, ancho and chipotle peppers, cacao nibs, and cinnamon sticks. No beer is safe from the pumpkin! Going one step further, this little beauty is served on cask for this event! ABV:6.0% Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

THE O.P.P. (2008) – Barrel aged Wild Pumpkin Porter
Olde Pumpkin Porter is a recreation of colonial pumpkin beers. Brewed with pale and roasted malts and fresh organic sugar pumpkins, it has whiled away the past years in used bourbon barrels with cinnamon sticks and candied ginger, inoculated by Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus naturally occurring in the CBC Barrel Cellar. Its tart and roasty palate transports you back to 17th Century Boston. ABV:6.8% Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

PUNJABI PUMPKIN – Pumpkin Saison with Curry Spices
Inspired by a really great bowl of curried pumpkin soup, brewed with pumpkins and very subtly spiced with a bespoke curry blend. Fruit and spice from our house Belgian yeast meld with hints of squash and malt, curry leaves, black pepper, cardamom, cumin, and coriander. ABV:5.5% Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

SPINAL PUMPKIN (2008) – Pumpkin Barleywine
The pumpkin ale that goes to eleven…This barleywine-style ale is crafted with eleven varietals of heirloom pumpkins and squashes, and spiced subtly with cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg. Aged since Halloween Night 2008, it’s 11.5% alcohol by volume, but smooth as a pumpkin’s bottom. ABV:11.5% Tickets: 2per4oz./max 4oz.

ICH BIN EIN KÜRBISWEISSE –Berlin-style Wheat Ale with Pumpkin and Spices
Possibly the world’s first pumpkin Berliner Weisse! This sour ale is lightly sweetened with a simple syrup infused with fresh pumpkin and autumn spices. Sweet up front, tart in the finish, pumpkin-spicy in the middle. A.B.V. 4.3%  Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

CBC BLACK O’LANTERN – CBC Pumpkin Black and Tan
Two great tastes that taste great together! Inspired by years of CBC staffers creating their own holiday black-and-tans, we’ve created a half and half blend of The Great Pumpkin and Charles River Porter. Subtle pumpkin and spice flavors nicely complement and lighten the rich roastiness of our house porter. Yeah, pumpkins! ABV:5.7% Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Also On Tap from CBC: Regatta Golden (1ticket/4oz./16oz. max), Tall Tale Pale Ale 1/4/16, Cambridge Amber 1/4/16, Charles River Porter 1/4/16, Bumper Crop I.P.A. 1/4/16, and Cerise Cassée 2/4/8.

GUEST BREWERIES

The Alchemist, Waterbury, VT
UNCLE DADDY – Pumpkin saison
A traditional saison brewed with pilsner and caramunich malts, and fermented with Bastogne yeast. Local sugar pumpkins were roasted overnight, pureed, then added at the end of the boil. Unspiced, so the flavors of malt, pumpkin, and brewers yeast shine.
ABV:5.8% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Allagash Brewing Co., Portland, ME
GHOULSCHIP – Barrel aged sour pumpkin ale
Barrel aged Sour beer brewed with fresh shredded pumpkin and toasted Pumpkin seeds.  Unspiced. Cooled in our coolship on Halloween night 2008 and pitched with our house Belgian yeast strain. After primary ferment, it was placed in french oak wine barrels (previously holding Chardonnay) where it has aged for two years.
ABV:7.0% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 2per4oz./max 4oz.  TAP TIME: 9PM

Avery Brewing Company, Boulder, CO
RUMPKIN – Imperial pumpkin ale aged in rum barrels
Strong pumpkin ale with spices, aged in Old Rum barrels from the Goslings Distillery in Hamilton, Bermuda. Liquid awesomeness!
ABV:13.2% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 2per4oz./max 4oz.

The Bruery, Placentia, CA
AUTUMN MAPLE - Belgian-style brown ale
Brewed with 17 lbs. of yams per barrel (in other words, a lot of yams!), this autumn seasonal is a different take on the “pumpkin” beer style. Brewed with cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, vanilla, molasses, and maple syrup, and fermented with our traditional Belgian yeast strain, this bold and spicy beer is perfect on a cold autumn evening.
ABV: 10% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Cape Ann Brewing Company, Gloucester, MA
FISHERMAN’S PUMPKIN STOUT
This very unique style is more stout than the usual “pumpkin pie” ales that are out there, with hints of real pumpkin & spice and a dark, coffee, stout flavor!
ABV:7.0% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

FISHERMAN’S IMPERIAL PUMPKIN STOUT
An Imperial stout using real Pumpkin and a combination of spices associated with the autumn, Cape Ann Brewing brings a fresh take at the common fall seasonal. This rich, dark stout offers an inviting pumpkin spice aroma that gives way to the potent roasted chocolate flavors of an Imperial stout and finishes with the delicate essence of real pumpkin. ABV:10.0%  Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Cisco Brewers, Nantucket, MA
PUMPLE DRUMKIN
“On Nantucket a pumple named Drumkin, brewed up some great ale with his pumpkins. One and all came to savor the delicious flavor, then wobbled around quite like bumpkins. At Cisco they thought, This is De-Lish! Let’s make some more because we wish
To please all the tourists, and locals and purists, with the best ale that we can accomplish!” ABV:6.8% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Clipper City Brewing Company, Baltimore, MD
HEAVY SEAS GREAT PUMPKIN – Imperial pumpkin ale
A richly flavored, BIG pumpkin ale made with real pumpkins in the mash and just the right balance of spice. ABV:8.5% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Milton, DE
PUNKIN ALE
A full-bodied brown ale with smooth hints of pumpkin and brown sugar. We brew our Punkin Ale with pumpkin meat, organic brown sugar and spices. This is the perfect beer to warm-up with, as the season cools.
ABV:7.0% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Elysian Brewing Company, Seattle, WA
MR. YUCK - Sour Pumpkin Ale
Brewed with pale, Munich, Cara-Hell and 150° Crystal malts and both malted and unmalted wheat, as well as wheat flour. Very lightly hopped with UK Fuggles and aged in fermentation for ten months with second-generation sour Belgian yeast blend (a culture we’ve kept alive for seven years), then in kegs for an additional four months.  Pumpkin in the mash and kettle. 
ABV:5.1% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 2per4oz./max 4oz.  TAP TIME: 5PM

HANSEL & GRETEL - Ginger Pumpkin Pilsner
Brewed with organic pale, Weyermann Munich and Cara-Hell malts, with pumpkin added in the mash, kettle and fermenter. Spiced with peeled and pureed fresh ginger in the boil and bright tank and hopped with lots of Czech Saaz hops (otherwise it wouldn’t be traditional). ABV:4.5% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

NIGHT OWL - Our Original Pumpkin Ale
Brewed with over 7 lbs. of pumpkin per barrel. Made with Pale, Munich and Crystal malts, green and roasted pumpkin seeds, and pumpkin in the mash, boil and fermenter. Bittered with Magnum hops. Spiced in conditioning with nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, ginger and allspice.  ABV:5.9% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Iron Hill Brewery, West Chester, PA
PUNKTOBERFEST - Uber Oktoberfest
Strong version of the famous fall lager brewed with pumpkin. Punktoberfest is amber in color and malty on the pallet with strong notes of vanilla and cinnamon. The subtle use of seasonal spices accentuates the spicy noble hop aroma. Ein Pumpkin Prosit!
ABV:7.0% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

BRUCE CAMP-ALE - Bourbon barrel aged imperial pumpkin ale
A tribute to The Chin himself. Bruce Camp-Ale is created slowly over many moons by allowing our Ichabod Imperial Belgian Pumpkin Ale to age and mellow in fresh Heaven Hill bourbon barrels.  The resulting beer is bursting with decadent notes of vanilla and oak that marry well with the spicy complexities of the base beer. Truly a rich beer to be enjoyed slowly and seasonally.
ABV:9.5% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, Dexter, MI
LA PARCELA
Oak aged sour pumpkin ale, packed with real pumpkins, hints of spice and a gentle kiss of cacao to liven the soul. Super rare beer, first brewed for CBC Great Pumpkin Fest #1! ABV:5.9% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 2per4oz./max 4oz. TAP TIME: 7PM

Martha’s Exchange Restaurant and Brewery, Nashua, NH
PUMPKINWEIZEN
Melding fresh and baked pumpkin inside a classic German Style Hefeweizen, the brew gets a light spicing of Cinnamon and Nutmeg to sprinkle in the season.  The natural clove and vanilla from the wheat yeast along with the spices make this a perfect autumn creation. ABV:5.2% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Rock Art Brewery, Morrisville, VT
IMPERIAL SPRUCE PUMPKIN STOUT
John Little is a professor by day and telemark instructor/home brewer/river conservationist. I first met John 15 years ago when I sold homebrew supplies in our basement. He would bring me bottles of his pumpkin imperial spruce stout, and they inspired me to create Rock Art’s version of this beer. The imperial stout uses pumpkins and spruce as the colonists used to brew with while forming this country. The pumpkins complement the malt flavors, and spruce gently emerges from this large wonderful beer. No spices such as nutmeg, cinnamon etc.
ABV:8.0% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Smuttynose Brewing Co., Portsmouth, NH
PUMPKIN ALE
Smuttynose Pumpkin Ale is our homage to the craft and heritage of America’s brewers. Recipes calling for the use of pumpkins in beer date back to early colonial times, when brewers sought to extend their supply of costly imported malt with locally grown ingredients, such as squash and “pompions.” In that spirit, we brew our ale with the addition of pumpkin to the mash, along with traditional spices to create a delicious American original. ABV:5.6% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Southern Tier Brewing Company, Lakewood, NY
PUMKING - Imperial Ale Brewed with Pumpkins
Pumking is an ode to Púca, a creature of Celtic folklore, who is both feared and respected by those who believe in it. Púca is said to waylay travelers throughout the night, tossing them on its back, and providing them the ride of their lives, from which they return forever changed! Brewed 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. As the first drops touch your tongue a magical spell will bewitch your taste buds making it difficult to escape. This beer is brewed with pagan spirit yet should be enjoyed responsibly.
ABV:9.0% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Uinta Brewing Co., Salt Lake City, UT
PUNK’N
Malt and hops accented with roasted pumpkin and spices of the season. A subtle hint of vanilla and honey. Punk’n is a wonderful compliment to foods with nutmeg, cinnamon, and clove flavors. Try it with roasted turkey, pumpkin ravioli, peach cobbler, or pumpkin cheesecake. ABV:4.0% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Watch City Brewing Co., Waltham, MA
PIE-EYED PUMPKIN ALE
As WCBC tradition would have it, this beer arrives to the taps after armies of pumpkin are deployed on door stoops nationwide. We avail ourselves to over 240 lbs. of locally grown sugar pumpkins for each batch we brew. Our artfully executed recipe includes a period of time where the beer is conditioned in a “tea” of traditional spices, long enough to attain a quiet tuning to the perfect flavor we objectively seek for our beer appreciating devotees. Medium bodied, an orange/brown tinged color, this beer is directed towards those who appreciate the relationship of beer with food, especially beer that mimics a veritably popular dessert, pumpkin pie!
ABV:6.3% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Weyerbacher Brewing Company, Easton, PA
IMPERIAL PUMPKIN ALE
Like a pyramid for a pharaoh, we set out to make a bold monument for The King of the Pumpkins! This pumpkin ale is the mother of all pumpkin ales. It is heartier, spicier, and more “caramelly” and “pumpkiny” than its faint brethren!
ABV:8.0% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 2per4oz./max 8oz.

Wormtown Brewing Company, Worcester, MA
WORMTOWN PUMPKIN ALE - Ale brewed with pumpkin and spices
Brewed with 100# of local pumpkins in each 10 bbl batch. Light pumpkin pie spice in th enose is complimented by flavors of pumpkin and spice in a medium light bodied ale.
ABV:4.3% Location: BEERGARDEN Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Zero Gravity Brewing at American Flatbread, Burlington, VT
Cornucopia – Spiced ale with butternut squash
Strong ale brewed with Vermont grown butternut squash and six different spices. Full bodied with notes of butternut, vanilla, nutmeg, ginger and more, while maintaining an exquisite malty balance.
ABV:6.5% Location: BREWHOUSE Tickets: 1per4oz./max 16oz.

Great Pumpkin Festival Menu (Table Service)

Roasted Sugar Pumpkin Bisque
Cranberry, Sage and Walnut Crumble,
Brown Butter Drizzle…6

Local Honey Glazed Pumpkin and Celery Root Timbale
Watercress and Arugula, Fried Procuitto, Aged Gouda, Hazelnut-Sage Vinaigrette…9

Grilled All Natural House Made Pork Sausage
Braised Collard Greens, Cascade Hop Infused Hot Sauce, Pumpkin Mustard Relish…10

North East Family Farms Braised Short Ribs
Pumpkin Gnocchi, Locally Foraged Wild Mushrooms, Tuscano Kale, Roasted Red Onion, Parmesan Reggiano and Truffle Butter…20

Pumpkin Ale and Honey Glazed Long Island Duck Breast
Curried Parsnip Puree, Roasted Bosc Pear,
Sauteed Swiss Chard…19

1 ¼ Pound Punjabi Pumpkin Steamed Native Whole Lobster
Local Leeks, Potatoes and Spinach, Cardamon Butter…25

Pumpkin Raviolis
Great Hill Bleu Cheese Cream, Sage, Hazelnuts and
Pickled Plympton Cranberries…18

Pumpkin Bread Pudding
Pumpkin Ale Ice Cream, House Butterscotch…6

Pumpkin Churros
Cinnamon Sugar, House Made Nutella
with Taza Choclate…6

Pumpkin Festival Patio Grill Menu

All Items are 4 tickets

Choice of

Grilled Bratwurst or Bockwurst
Pumpkin Ale Braised Sauerkraut, Beer Mustard,
Pretzel Roll

Grilled Flatbread
Tuscan Kale, Fontina Cheese, Roasted Pumpkin
and Dried Cranberries
*Option to add Duck Confit

Grilled Autumn Vegetable Skewer in Pita
Pumpkin Seed Hummus, Green Leaf Lettuce

All Items 4tickets

The Rules of the Game

• All beers will be poured into your festival glass

• There are 3 beer stations located throughout the restaurant  
  (see map for locations)

• The majority of beers are available in 4, 8, 12 and 16 oz pour
    o A few of the higher-alcohol brews and really rare stuff have a 4oz or 8oz pour limit per trip

• Drink tickets will be used for ALL beverage sales
  (No Cash)

• Drink tickets can be purchased at 1 of the 2 ticket tables
  (see map)

• Drink tickets are 4 for $5

• The majority of the beers cost 1 ticket for a 4oz pour
  (That adds up to 5 bucks for a 16oz beer)

• The main/front dining room is reserved exclusively for dinner guests
    o There is a special pumpkin fest menu for table service          
      (Please see menu to the right).
    o Please see the hostess to get a table
    o We do ask that you limit your table stay to 1 and a half  
    hours to make sure that everyone gets a chance to fill
    their bellies!
    o We can only seat 100% complete parties. No exceptions
    o Every guest must order food
    o There is no table service available for the outdoor grill
    o You will still need to get your own beers filled at one of  
      the pouring stations

• The kitchen and the grill will be open from 4pm to 12pm

• Last call will be at 12:30

• All food and beer will be available “while supplies last”

• Elysian Mr Yuck will be tapped at 5pm, Jolly Pumpkin
      La Parcela at 7pm and Allagash Ghouleschip at 9pm

• The ceremonial tapping of ‘The Great Pumpkin’ will take place at 10pm on the patio

• Happy Halloween, Damn it.