Oh, Halloween: A time when Rockwellesque families gather around the kitchen table to carve their fears into pumpkins, only to find them smashed on the sidewalk the next morning by neighborhood hooligans too old to trick-or-treat, but too young to bar hop. It’s a tragic comedy the pumpkin lives this time of year, unless the gourd ends up in a bottle of Elysian’s beer. Then it’s quite epic.

I missed out on this year’s Great Pumpkin Festival, but decided to make up for it with three of Elysian’s pumpkin beers, each different and delicious. This weekend, toast to the mashed-up pumpkin brains soon to be spread across your suburban cul-de-sac come Monday morning with these amazing offerings.

Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
This dark copper beer is the lightest of the three, but fills the air with the most spot-on recreation of pumpkin pie: Nutmeg, clove, allspice and cinnamon scents straight from the bakery. Put simply, this beer’s liquid dessert. Its creamy body carries pumpkin pie spices, while toasted malts add a hint of piecrust to the mix.

The Great Pumpkin
Billed as the world’s first imperial pumpkin ale, this hazy orange beer bursts with a stunning, complex aroma of ginger, woodsy cedar and nutty, toasted pumpkin seeds. Not what you’d expect from an imperial style, The Great Pumpkin doesn’t overwhelm the taste buds with flavor from the gourd, but rather lays down delicate spruce and fruit notes, with some toasted pumpkin seeds in the finish. The pumpkin flavors build with each sip, but this is still a highly quaffable brew, even at 7.7%-ABV.

Dark O’ the Moon
Two words: Pumpkin bread. Dark O’ the Moon smells exactly like rich pumpkin bread with a dash of espresso roast. This exceptional stout’s heavy roast character accentuates the toasted pumpkin seed flavors while thick pumpkin and spice notes sink into the stout’s rich malt profile. This one’s easily my favorite of the three, and the only thing more amazing than this beer is the fact that Elysian manages to find such a wide range of uses for pumpkin in beer.