(Portland, ME) – Email just received from Allagash Brewing…

UPDATE: Beer Advocate reports that Allagash has set a bottle limit of ten per person (which means get ready to see some of those extras on ebay).

Allagash Ghoulschip is a beer aged in oak barrels and brewed with pumpkin, toasted pumpkin seeds and molasses.

RELEASE INFO:

October 31st at 8am (doors at 7am)

Only 1,200 bottles. $10 per bottle.

First 300 get a treat (bottle limit = 4???). This ain’t no trick.

Barrel room tour / Ghoulschip tastings on the hour from 10am to 3pm.

50 Industrial Way, Portland, ME 04103 / 207-878-5385

Ed. note: The beer is a riff on the name, “coolship.” Here is more info:

In the summer of 2008, we decided to build a coolship at our brewery. A coolship is a large shallow pan used to cool wort overnight using outside air temperature. During the cooling process, naturally occuring yeast from the air innoculates the wort. In the morning, the cooled wort is transferred into barrels where the fermentation process begins. The beer is then aged for an undertermined amount of time, until we deem it “ready”.