Blue Mountain Chocolate Pumpkin Porter

Commercial Description:
NOT A SPICED BEER! Our regular Nitro Porter has gotten all dressed up for Halloween! Brewed with four crates of pumpkins and Mexican cocoa nibs, our Fall version of porter has a real taste of the season. We gutted and roasted the pumpkins (over one whole pumpkin per barrel of beer) acquired for us by AM FOG across the street and added them to the mash as a supplement to the barley malt. Used in this way, the pumpkins simply serve as an additional form of fermentable sugar for the beer, honoring the ingenuity of our thrifty colonial forbears who could make beer out of just about anything. So no, this isn’t one of those pumpkin ales that tastes like your grandma’s pie, this is the real thing. And we’ve added barely any hops to this batch, letting the deep bitter flavors of the cocoa beans do the balancing work for the brew, along with adding a subtle chocolaty flavor that is delicious. 40 IBUs, 6.5% alc./vol.