The sun has set on summertime, but packing away the beach coolers doesn’t mean the end of drinking delicious beer. Autumn is prime time for enjoying fall beers, be it while watching a football game, reading up on IPA beer history, or raking leaves (we'd also recommend hoisting lager steins at your local Oktoberfest bash). Fall’s cooler weather welcomes a bounty of fall beers.
There are plenty of heartier styles suited for taking off the chill and pairing with that bubbling pot of chili. Stouts, porters, and nitro beers are once again fair game, and coolers swell with fleeting releases such as fresh-hopped pale ales and pumpkin everything.
We welcome several intriguing ales to store shelves, including IPAs seasoned with spruce tips to ambers ales spiked with maple syrup.
Below you’ll find 20 of the best fall beers to drink during fall’s crunchy, leaf-filled glory. Try the best fall beers of 2023 before winter’s first snowfall.
The Best Fall Beers for 2023
Best Pumpkin Beers
Forget the Pumpkin Spice Frappuccino. Come fall, there’s no finer seasonal treat than a pumpkin beer brewed with pie spices and plenty of pumpkin too. Pumpkin beers are American brewing’s signature fall seasonal.
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- Style: Pumpkin ale
- ABV: 7%
- Brewery: New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins, Colorado; Asheville, NC
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- Style: Pumpkin ale
- ABV: 7%
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Brewery: Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Milton, DE
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- Style: Pumpkin ale
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ABV: 6.8%
- Brewery: Two Roads Brewing Company, Stratford, CT
Best Smoked Beers
A crackling backyard fire can set the stage for sipping a rauchbier, a style of beer made with smoked malts. If you like BBQ, you might love a few smoked beers.
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- Style: Rauchbier
- ABV: 6.5%
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Brewery: Alaskan Brewing Co., Juneau, AK
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- Style: Rauchbier
- ABV: 5.4%
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Brewery: Brauerei Heller-Trum, Bamberg, Germany
Festbier and Märzen Lagers
Whether you’re tailgating before a football game or pulling on lederhosen for an Oktoberfest party, you’ll want to stock up on these signature fall lagers. The malty and robust märzen and golden festbier lagers are a little stronger than your average light lager but no less refreshing. P.S. Oktoberfest celebrations start in September, not October.
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- Style: Festbier
- ABV: 5.2 percent
- Brewery: Brauhaus Riegele, Augsburg, Germany
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- Style: Festbier
- ABV: 5.8%
- Brewery: Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan, Freising, Germany
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- Style: Märzen
- ABV: 5.2%
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Brewery: Firestone Walker Brewing Company, Paso Robles, CA
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- Style: Märzen
- ABV: 5.7%
- Brewery: Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers, Framingham, MA
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- Style: Festbier
- ABV: 6%
- Brewery: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, California; Mills River, NC
Amber and Brown Ales
Cooler weather calls for richer beers that lean on malt character, namely the amber and brown ales. Some versions opt for a heavier hand with hops and complementary flavors such as maple syrup.
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- Style: ESB
- ABV: 5.3%
- Brewery: Left Hand Brewing Company, Longmont, CO
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- Style: Amber ale
- ABV: 5.7%
- Brewery: Harpoon Brewery, Boston, MA
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- Style: Brown ale
- ABV: 5.5%
- Brewery: Cigar City Brewing, Tampa, FL
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- Style: Amber ale
- ABV: 8%
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Brewery: Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Waitsfield, VT
Porters, Stouts, and Schwarzbiers
When the nights grow longer, you’ll want to turn to warming porters and stouts that taste of chocolate and coffee thanks to the use of dark malts. You’ll also want to look for a schwarzbier, a dark lager that should be your go-to grilling beer.
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- Style: Schwarzbier
- ABV: 4.8%
- Brewery: Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei GmbH & Co., Bad Köstritz, Germany
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- Style: Stout
- ABV: 7.5%
- Brewery: Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, ME
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- Style: Stout
- ABV: 6%
- Brewery: Bell’s Brewery, Comstock, MI
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- Style: Russian imperial stout
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ABV: 12%
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Brewery: Surly Brewing Company, Brooklyn Center, MN
Pale Ales and IPAs
In the fertile fields of the Pacific Northwest, late summer is harvest time for hops, the little green flowers that add aroma, flavor, and bitterness to beer. Most hops are dried and packaged for later use. But some freshly picked hops are rushed to breweries to create a fleeting taste of the harvest season: freshly hopped pale ales and IPAs.
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