10/13/2026
Thank you Northeast Ohio Craft Beverage News for giving Twisted Stem Pumpkin Ale some #5 love on the list of Top 20 Northeast Ohio Pumpkin B**rs! 🎃
🎃 30 DAYS. 20 BEERS. ONE #1.
For the last month, we’ve worked our way through Northeast Ohio’s pumpkin b**r bench — from longtime fall staples to small-brewery sleepers we frankly didn’t know enough about when we started.
You saw 19 Top 20 spotlights. We deliberately kept one b**r hidden.
Now it’s time.
Here are NEOCBN’s Top 20 Northeast Ohio Pumpkin B**rs:
20. Porch Pumpkin — Red Wagon Brewing Company | Columbia Station
Real pumpkin, fall spice, cinnamon sticks and graham cracker make this one a fitting tribute to the pumpkin-growing tradition at Red Wagon Farm.
19. Chai One On — Sandy Springs Brewing Company | Minerva
A hefty 9.1% stout that brings chai spice into the pumpkin-b**r conversation.
18. The Fall of the House of Butternut — Codex Brewing | North Canton
An 8% fall b**r that proves pumpkin doesn’t have to be the only squash invited to the party.
17. Great Lakes Pumpkin Ale — Great Lakes Brewing Co. | Cleveland
A Northeast Ohio fall veteran that has been returning to taps and shelves for roughly two decades.
16. Kürbisleichen — Forest City Brewery | Cleveland
An 8% pumpkin ale from one of Cleveland’s smallest breweries that quietly earned its place in a very deep field.
15. Haunted Grounds on Hillcrest — New Berlin Brewing Company | North Canton
Roasted pumpkin, coffee, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg come together in one of the biggest sleepers we uncovered during this series.
14. Das Pumpkin — Akronym Brewing | Akron
A proven seasonal with enough history behind it to stand out in an increasingly crowded Northeast Ohio pumpkin-b**r field.
13. Pumpkinseed Ale — Muskellunge Brewing Co. | Canton
Made with 50 pounds of pumpkin and backed by a 2023 U.S. Open B**r Championship gold medal in the Pumpkin B**r category.
12. 99 Pumpkins — Lorain Brewing Company | Lorain
A strong pumpkin ale whose roots stretch back to the former Avon Brewing Company.
11. Haunted Hayride — Masthead Brewing Co. | Cleveland
One of the region’s more established modern pumpkin releases and a b**r that keeps returning each fall.
THE TOP 10
10. The Grimm — BIRDFISH BREWING CO. | Columbiana
Pumpkin meets pecans, graham crackers, honey and fall spices in one of the more distinctive b**rs on this list.
9. Yard Haunt —HiHO Brewing Company | Cuyahoga Falls
Vanilla and lactose give this pumpkin ale a richer profile without pushing it completely into dessert-b**r territory.
8. Frankensteinian Method — Wooly Pig Farm Brewery | Fresno
One of the strangest b**rs in the Top 20 — a dark, hoppy l***r brewed with pumpkin but without the usual pumpkin-pie spice playbook.
7. Nightmare on North — Paradigm Shift Brewing Co. | Massillon
One of the discoveries that forced us to rewrite this ranking while the series was already underway. Big, 8.2% and deserving of far more attention outside Massillon.
6. Linus’s Latte — Broadview Brewing Co. | Broadview Heights
Another late discovery that crashed the party. Brown sugar, pumpkin spice and coffee in a massive 9.1% fall b**r — and one of the biggest sleepers on this entire list.
THE TOP FIVE
5. Twisted Stem Pumpkin Ale — Lockport Brewery | Bolivar
Big at 8.5%, flavorful and one of those b**rs that deserves to be mentioned far more often when Northeast Ohio’s best pumpkin b**rs come up.
4. Pope’s Imperial Pumpkin Ale — Millersburg Brewing Company | Millersburg
A 9% imperial pumpkin ale with serious staying power — and a World B**r Cup bronze medal on its résumé.
3. Spooky Tooth — Fat Head's Brewery | Middleburg Heights
One of Northeast Ohio’s defining pumpkin b**rs. Big, widely distributed, enormously popular and still one of the standards by which the region’s pumpkin ales are measured.
2. Frog’s Hollow Double Pumpkin Ale — Hoppin' Frog Brewery | Akron
An imperial pumpkin heavyweight with years of history and a national reputation. In almost any other region, this could easily be the b**r at #1.
But we kept one b**r hidden for all 30 days.
And here it is.
🥇 #1 — BARREL-AGED IMPERIAL PUMPKIN ALE — THIRSTY DOG BREWING CO. | AKRON
We never gave it a spotlight. We never told you it made the Top 20. And that was intentional.
Thirsty Dog Brewing Co. takes its Imperial Pumpkin Ale and puts it into bourbon barrels, creating a bigger, richer version where pumpkin and fall spice meet oak, bourbon and warming alcohol.
Among an extraordinarily deep field, Barrel-Aged Imperial Pumpkin Ale is our #1 Northeast Ohio pumpkin b**r.
And perhaps the biggest thing we learned over these 30 days?
Northeast Ohio is ridiculously deep in pumpkin b**r. We found legitimate contenders in Akron, Cleveland, Canton, Massillon, Broadview Heights, Columbiana, Bolivar, Millersburg and communities all across our footprint. We found b**rs good enough to make a Top 20 that still couldn’t get in.
Now it’s your turn.
🎃 What’s YOUR #1?
Which b**r did we rank too high? Too low? And what did we leave out entirely?
That’s a wrap on 30 Days of NEO Pumpkin B**rs.
