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NESHAMINY CREEK PUNKEL DUNKEL

On tap at Amazing Grapes, richly creamed pumpkin-pureed dunkelweizen retains chewy molasses-syruped pumpkin pie richness as gingerbread-sugared cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice sweetness battles back dunkel-styled banana, vanilla, clove and toffee illusions above Graham Cracker-like wheat spine. In deep recess, orange-candied cherry, grape and fig nuances flutter. A ghoulishly full-bodied Halloween dessert treat.

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CONEY ISLAND FREAKTOBERFEST BIG OL’ PUMPKIN ALE W/ ESPRESSO BEANS

Mildly smooth espresso-beaned pumpkin ale may be a tad thin, but its subtle flavor profile will please softer thirsts. Brooklyn’s Cafe Grumpy espresso beans provide back end pleasantries for sweet pumpkin pie-spiced gingerbread, nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice and clove illusions as well as vanilla-sugared coconut toasting and wavering smoked black peppering. But lemony carbolic spritz brings intrusive phenol aridity and vegetal squash-zucchini earthiness seems undefined. On tap at Growler & Gill, better 2017 version found subtle espresso bean exuberance caress pumpkin pie spicing and light lemon rind bittering.

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