Elysian's 9th Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Fest

The 9th Annual Great Pumpkin Beer Festival is just around the corner at Elysian Brewing in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle. This year’s festival takes place over the course of three days, with one session each day from October 4 – 6, 2013.

If you are planning on attending, hopefully you already have your tickets for the Friday and Saturday sessions since they now are sold out. Tickets remain available for Sunday’s session. Sunday tickets are available at all 3 Elysian locations along with Full Throttle Bottles.

This years GPBF will feature more beer varieties than ever including sours, Belgians, porters, barrel-aged, IPA, cider, amber, barleywine, gruit, rauchbier, hefeweizen, classic pumpkin ales, and their first ever geuze and zwicklebiers!  You will find many ingredients beyond classic pumpkin pie spices including plums, coffee, habaneros, cranberries, chocolate, lavender, nettle, epazote and coconut.

Elysian Beers Include:

• Night Owl
• Dark O’ The Moon Pumpkin Sout
• Great Pumpkin Imperial ALe
• Hansel & Gretel Ginger Pumpkin Pils
• Mr. Yuck Sour Pumpkin Ale
• Plumpkin
• Punkuccino Coffee Pumpkin Ale
• The Great Gherkin
• Calatrava
• Purple Pumpkineater Lavender Saison
• Yuck Yuck Geuze
• Headless Horsey
• Kurbitinus Pumpkin DunkelHefeWeizenBock
• Blight
• The Gourdfather
• Many more vintage ales..

Guest Breweries Include:

• 10 Barrel
• 21st Amendment
• Almanac
• Anacortes
• Anderson Valley
• Bainbridge Island
• Beer Valley
• Big Time
• Bluebird
• California Cider Co.
• Cascade Barrel House
• Dogfish Head
• Elliott Bay
• Epic
• Fremont
• Georgetown
• Howe Sound
• Hopworks
• Laurelwood
• Midnight Sun
• Naked City
• New Belgium
• Ninkasi
• Northwest
• Pike
• Populuxe
• Puyallup River
• Red Hook
• Reuben’s Brews
• Rock Bottom
• Seattle Cider Co.
• Silver City
• Slippery Pig
• Southern Tier
• Two Beers
• Uinta

Session Times:
Friday, October 4th: 4:00 – 10:00pm
Saturday, October 5th: Noon – 6:00pm
Sunday, October 6th: Noon – 6:00pm

Please note that this year Elysian will be doing basic bag checks at the entrance, so please leave your backpacks at home. Purses are fine – just keep in mind, the less you bring, the faster you get to the pumpkin beer.

Elysian Airport Way
5510 Airport Way S.
Seattle, WA 98108