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Seasonality is a huge part of the American craft beer scene and it can accelerate around certain holidays. Christmas, of course, is big – but Halloween also generates a roster of “scary” beers. And we’ve five Halloweeen beers that are ‘to die for..
Three Floyds Zombie Dust
Munster, Indiana’s cult favorite Three Floyds brews a year-round pale ale that with its haunting name, spooky label and “killer” taste has become the ‘go-to’ Halloween classic for many Midwesterners.
Three Floyds Zombie Dust is a 6.4% ABV American Pale Ale sure to draw hordes of beer zombies your way at any Halloween outing. And if you’re looking for a Halloween beer with some real ‘street cred,’ this one’s it.
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
Given that many consider this Rogue Ales original to be the first Halloween-themed craft beer EVER, we’d be “just wrong” to not give this ‘dead guy’ its due.
Originally crafted almost twenty years ago, by the Newport Oregon-based heritage brewery, to celebrate the Mayan Day of the Dead, Rogue Dead Guy Ale is actually a fairly traditional a German-style Maibock.
And like Three Floyd’s Zombie Dust, Dead Guy Ale is a year-round offering that the brewery quite intentionally markets widely at Halloween.
AleSmith Evil Dead Red
A beer’s name is an intrinsic part of any Halloween beer, and AleSmith Brewing’s fall seasonal is not just frighteningly named, but it’s frighteningly delicious.
Blood red and hopped just enough to balance out its crimson malt backbone, AleSmith Evil Dead Red is a fiendishly smooth Red Ale that’s only brewed only for the haunting season.
Great Lakes Nosferatu
Great Lakes Brewing offers a beloved seasonal every Halloween, which was clearly inspired by, and named after, FW Murnau’s classic silent horror film, Nosferatu.
With its truly alarming label, that horrifically depicts Count Dracula’s original incarnation, Great Lakes Nosferatu is a deep ruby 8% ABV Imperial Red Ale that just bleeds ‘All Hallows Eve.’
Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Pumpkin beers are always a solid option for any Halloween outing and Weyerbacher brews a legend!
But understand that there are pumpkin beers and there are PUMPKIN BEERS and this Easton, Pennsylvania’s brewery’s holiday beer is savage!
Unruly and equally unrepentant, (and at 8% ABV much stronger than many pumpkin beers) Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin Ale will leave its victims howling at the moon
