Here’s a beer I’ve wanted to try for quite some time: Clown Shoes Pumpkin Sombrero Mexican-Style Chocolate Stout with Pumpkin Puree. Every year for the past I don’t know how many years, I trek early to Sherlock’s and Total Wine in Kennesaw, Georgia in search of the Clown Shoes 12 Beers of Christmas sampler. I get a lot of different beers this way, and a lot of delicious repeats, too. One beer, though, that has yet to appear in same is the Pumpkin Sombrero.

This year, though, in mid-August, I Scored a 4-pack of the beer at Total Wine in mid- August, and I popped open a can the following night. Clown Shoes says:

Every so often, a competitor reaches a pinnacle. When that happens, the only way to keep things interesting is to go unorthodox. Lucha’s at the top. No doubt about it. He’s got nothing left to prove against mere human beings. So how about against a giant pumpkin wrestler with an evil robot brain? Enter: the Gorgeous Gourd!  He may have incredibly tough pumpkin skin, and super strength, but Lucha has four fists ready to unleash destruction and fury.

I’m not sure what’s better about Clown Shoes, their beers, or their descriptions of their beers. Probably their beers, but hey, they’re both good.

Clown Shoes Pumpkin Sombrero Mexican-Style Chocolate Stout with Pumpkin Puree has an alcohol content of 7% by volume and I paid $14.99 for a 4-pack of pint cans at Total Wine. My cans are stamped 07/22/24 on the bottom, which is pretty fresh since I bought them on 8/17.

Clown Shoes Pumpkin Sombrero Mexican-Style Chocolate Stout with Pumpkin Puree pours to a dark mahogany color with a thick creamy tan head and a nose of stringy vegetal pumpkin and spice. Taking a sip, the beer is medium to full in body, sliding luxuriantly over the tongue. There’s thick chewy slightly burnt caramel, brown sugar, vegetal pumpkin, spicy clove, cinnamon and nutmeg, the latter helping to dry in the finish.

An excellent pumpkin ale that I very much enjoyed, though it did not seem all that Mexican chocolate stout like to me. Still, Lucha will have to wrestle me to the ground to keep me from drinking it again.

Glad I tried it?  T

Would I rebuy it??