One of Pennsylvania’s most popular pumpkin craft beers makes its triumphant return this October. And, if online memes tell you anything, this beer is extra special as it takes fresh pumpkins to produce. The one and only Master of Pumpkins by Tröegs will return to shelves on Monday, October 3rd.

Every year, when pumpkin beer season arrives, the Central PA brewery brews Master of Pumpkins with 3,000 pounds of Pennsylvania longnecks grown 10 miles from the brewery.

“It takes a long time to plant, raise, pick, slice, clean and roast all those longnecks, but if you ask us, Master of Pumpkins is worth the wait” the brewery says about the process.

“To us, a pumpkin beer should have pumpkin,” says brewmaster John Trogner. “We’re a Pennsylvania brewery, and pumpkins grow really well here, so using Pennsylvania pumpkins just makes sense. Tröegs lovers definitely appreciate the connection to local agriculture.”

Early in the year, when the frost permits, the brewery’s friends at Strites’ Orchard outside Hershey plant a whole field of Pennsylvania longneck pumpkins just to be used in this beer. Longnecks are a hearty heirloom variety that taste similar to butternut squash and can weigh up to 20 pounds each.

Then, in late August or early September, the ripe pumpkins are delivered, and their kitchen team swings into action, de-stemming and roasting each one of these crooked beauties right in their Snack Bar kitchen.

Look for Master of Pumpkins in 16-oz. cans and on draft at the brewery and in Central PA starting Monday, October 3rd followed by everywhere their beer is sold over the next few weeks