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Fountainhead Goes Pumpkin Crazy This Halloween

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Oct 4, 2011 9:20PM

2011_10_4_pumpkin_tap.jpg Autumn means pumpkins. Pumpkin pie. Pumpkin bread. Pumpkin spiced lattes. Pumpkin seeds. Jack o'lanterns.

Pumpkin beer.

Fountainhead is hosting a party on Halloween that's taking pumpkin beer a step further. the highlight of their "Great Punk’n Party" isn't the punk music or the pumpkin-themed menu for the evening. It's the beer.

Fountainhead beer director Phil Kuhl will be running two pumpkin beers - Southern Tier PumKing & Uinta Punk’n - through two large pumpkins to add to the flavor. Don't laugh: one of our favorite beers from Goose Island's Belgian Fest in August was a lemongrass saison run through a lemongrass filter. The flavor was off the charts. If Kuhl can achieve a similar amping of flavor here, these beers won't last the night.

Fountainhead's "Great Punk'n Party." Oct. 31. 1970 W. Montrose Ave.

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