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Pumpkin Carving with a Craft Beer Twist

With fall starting to show its true colors, and Halloween coming up, I can’t help but to get excited for pumpkin carving. As a kid, my family and I had a Halloween tradition of lining the kitchen floor with newspaper, printing out our favorite stencil and digging in to our pumpkins.

Every year we got more and more creative with the stencils, always trying to beat one another’s carving work. As I’ve gotten older, my pumpkin carving competitiveness has only grown, and every year I try and out do my previous pumpkin.

Odell Brewing Co.Opens in new window and Stone Brewing Co.Opens in new window brought this year’s carving to the next level with their very own stencils. As a beer lover, and an extremely competitive pumpkin carver, these patterns are exactly what I need to outdo myself.

Click on your favorite stencils below to see the full-size versions. Happy carving!

Odell Logo

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IPA

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5 Barrel Pale Ale

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 90 Shilling

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Stone Brewing Gargoyle

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Arrogant Bastard Gargoyle

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Anniversary Gargoyle

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Stone Brewing Gargoyle, full

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Arrogant Bastard Gargoyle, full

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Atalie RhodesAtalie Rhodes is the current Craft Beer Program intern at the Brewers Association. Her love of craft beer lead her to becoming a trainer at Yard House Restaurants, but she is constantly seeking more beer knowledge. If she is not at a brewery asking a plethora of questions about their beer, she is probably out fishing, playing volleyball or reading one of her favorite books.

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