The Cambridge Brewing Company is once again bottling The Great Pumpkin Ale. Since this is the first time in twenty-two years that we’re getting a chance to taste a bottled version of the punkin’-brew, this is a huge deal for all microbrew enthusiast. Well, that’s what CBC’s implying, anyways:

Beer brewed with pumpkins has been around since the days of colonial New England, when brewers often had to supplement the traditional barley and hops with other ingredients that were more readily available. CBC, the first New England craft brewery to produce pumpkin ale, revived the style in the Boston area in 1990 and continues to brew this beer according to Phil “Brewdaddy” Bannatyne’s original recipe! Other craft breweries have followed suit since then, and pumpkin beer has developed a huge following across the country and beyond.

If I’m not mistaken, it seems as though CBC is trying to claim responsibility for the all of the drunkards stumbling their way through pumpkin patches after taking killer rips from orange-colored hogsheads. So since that they’re offering Great Pumpkin Ale in bottles once again, I figured I’d see how the supposed originator stacks up against the successors.

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