I further acknowledge that through this Agreement I have been fully and adequately warned of the risks. I have voluntarily agreed to participate in the Event despite the recognized and inherent dangers existing and despite the known and unknown risks of serious personal injury, death and/or damage to or loss of real or personal property. I recognize that the Event poses known and unknown risks of serious personal injury, death and/or damage to or loss of property, including but not limited to, exposure to and infection with COVID-19. I hereby enter this RELEASE OF LIABILITY, VOLUNTARY ASSUMPTION OF THE RISK AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT (“Agreement”) with Elysian Brewing (“Company”) to RELEASE Company, Company’s wholesalers, and their respective corporate parents, related and affiliated entities, subsidiaries, directors, officers, shareholders, insurers, employees and agents (collectively, the “Released Parties”) with regard to my opportunity to participate in the Scary Good Delivery on October 27th and 28th 2021 in Washington state (hereinafter “the Event”). On RateBeer, it scores 3.47 out of 5 and is in their 92nd percentile.RELEASE OF LIABILITY, VOLUNTARY ASSUMPTION OF RISK, AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT On BeerAdvocate, it scores an overall grade of B+. Better than many, but definitely “commercialized.” Overall: Not as good as when I first had it. Mouthfeel: Crisp, medium-bodied but clean-filtered. Decent, but more “amber ale” than pumpkin from what I remember. Touch of cinnamon at the back of the throat. Taste: Malty amber base with caramel malts and light on the spicing. Some cooked-pumpkin aromas as well, I think, punctuated by caramel.
Smell: Nice, sweet brown sugar and pumpkin pie spices.
It’s still one of the best examples of pumpkin beer available.Īppearance: Orange-tinted amber and very clear thinnish light tan head. Let me clear though: this is in no way a bad beer. I suspect part of the issue is that this beer is jointly brewed with New Belgium Brewing (where they can brew larger batches), and the New Belgium brewing processes account for the “change.” I would love to try Night Owl on tap as long as it came out of the Elysian brewery in Seattle, so I could compare. Filtering a pumpkin beer strips away the essential pumpkin characteristics, which give it body and mouthfeel that help to buffer against the harsher notes that spices by themselves can lend to a beer.
What I mean when I say is, the beer doesn’t have that “artisanal” character that I remember, instead seeming as though it’s gone through more commercialized industrial processes like filtration.Īnd you all know I think a pumpkin beer should never be filtered. But since then (and especially this year), I noticed there was something different-it has taken on a more filtered, “clean” quality-I want to say “commercialized” because that’s how I think of it, though there’s nothing wrong with being “commercial” with a beer. Back in 2008 when I first reviewed it, it was a pure rave: I declared that it “might well be my new favorite pumpkin beer.” Indeed, it was a first-class pumpkin beer. To be honest, I have mixed feeling about Night Owl these days. So (again, my own rules!) I’ve extended the Week long enough to include this review. NovemBy Jon Abernathy | Filed in Reviews, Theme WeekĮven though by my own rules Pumpkin Beer Week ended last week, I still had a bottle of Elysian Brewing’s Night Owl Pumpkin Ale to review.
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