Every October, Proctor forgets its tidy porch-light manners and detonates into a pumpkin carnival. The Market stacks gourds like orange fortresses, jack-o’-lanterns grin from stoops with dental problems, sidewalks crunch under leaf confetti, and the air itself smells like nutmeg daring you to admit you love it. And now, beer joins the rebellion. Peaks & Pints’ Tap #23 has been officially claimed by Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium — pumpkin beer’s mischievous soapbox, pouring steady until Halloween.

Pumpkin beer is theater, not just flavor: part nostalgia, part ritual, part fleeting seasonal excess that collapses on November 1 like a soggy scarecrow. Love it, mock it, hoard it — doesn’t matter. The pumpkins are here, the pints are spiced, and Proctor is about to smell a whole lot more like October.

So consider today’s Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium Flight your front-row seat to autumn’s grand performance — Rogue still roasting whole gourds by hand, Fort George staging a farm-to-kettle ritual, Fat Orange Cat sneaking pumpkin into its brooding brown, Abomination turning gourds into heretical milkshake thunder, and Lucky Envelope weaving squash into a cream stout lullaby. Five beers, five takes on the gourd that refuses to be ignored. Pour, sip, surrender. The lanterns are already lit.

Peaks & Pints Proctor Pumpkin Pandemonium Flight

Rogue Ales Pumpkin Patch Ale

6.1% ABV | Pumpkin Ale | Independence, Oregon

This isn’t pumpkin spice latte cosplay — this is Rogue Ales dragging whole gourds straight from their Oregon farm, roasting them until they caramelize like candy left too close to the fire, then tossing them into the kettle with a spice cabinet that reads like an autumn incantation: ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, orange peel. The pour glows dark amber, the aroma hums with earth and smoke. On the tongue it’s toasted malt, sugared squash, a flicker of caramel, a restrained spice kiss — not cloying, not cartoonish, just autumn made drinkable, balanced and sly. It doesn’t scream “fall gimmick!”; it sighs, leans in, and reminds you sweaters exist.

Fort George Topaz Spiced Pumpkin Ale

6.7% ABV | Pumpkin Ale | Astoria, Oregon

Fort George doesn’t just dabble in pumpkin beer, they stage a harvest rite. Every fall they drag 200 pounds of hand-roasted, organic pumpkins from Topaz Farms into the brewhouse and mash them with reverence, like druids sacrificing squash to the gods of malt. Then comes the pageantry: Pilsner and Munich malts laying down caramel silk, noble Tettnanger hops nodding herbal approval, and the spice cabal — cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, clove, allspice — burnishing the whole thing until it glows like firelight on wet cobblestones. The pumpkin is roasted, subtle, never syrupy. Topaz isn’t pie in a pint; it’s the bonfire after harvest, laughter rising into October air, proof Astoria knows restraint can still feel decadent.

Fat Orange Cat Cat-O-Lantern

8% ABV | Imperial Brown Ale | East Hampton, CT

This isn’t pumpkin by the patch or by the pound — this is pumpkin by stealth. Fat Orange Cat folds squash into a gothic brown ale where dark malt lays down caramel-roast heft and spice drifts in like smoke through rafters. At 8%, Cat-O-Lantern pours like scorched sugar cooled with whispers of cinnamon and clove, earthy and elegant. No blaring “harvest” trumpet here; it murmurs autumn secrets, subtle and sly. A seasonal shadow play built on roast and restraint.

Abomination Forbidden Pumpkin

9.3% ABV | Imperial Milkshake IPA – Pumpkin | East Stroudsburg, PA

This is pumpkin on overdrive. Abomination Brewing didn’t just brew with squash — they buried it under oats, milk sugar, vanilla beans, and a double dry-hop blitz of Citra and Mosaic. It pours hazy amber, foamy with cream-of-squash bravado, the aroma bouncing between bubblegum, spice, and orange zest before diving into vanilla-slick decadence. Think pumpkin pie mugged by a hop freight train — and somehow grinning about it. At 9.3%, it’s a heretical, dessert-wrecking monster. Forbidden? Absolutely. But temptation never tasted this fun.

Lucky Envelope Pumpkin Emoji Cream Stout

6% ABV | Pumpkin Cream Stout | Seattle, WA

Not another pumpkin parody — Pumpkin Emoji Cream Stout is the seasonal hug you didn’t know you needed. Lucky Envelope roasts real puree, layering its squashy earth with cocoa, coffee edges, and spice that whispers rather than shouts. Lactose and oats add body until it’s plush as velvet, a dark pint that’s cozy without tipping into saccharine. Imagine a PSL that learned balance: creamy, grounded, quietly decadent, perfect for rainy afternoons and pumpkin lantern glow.

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