Do you love pumpkin beer? Do you love a sweet, malty, gourd-based ale layered over with cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, allspice, ginger and maybe some honey? Would you wait up all night in a pumpkin patch with Linus and Lucy to taste a pumpkin imperial stout aged with ancho chilies in oak barrels? Then, you’ll be thrilled to hear the Elysian Pumpkin Road Show at Peaks and Pints will rise Thursday, Sept. 27.

During the Elysian Pumpkin Road Show at Peaks and Pints, the Seattle brewery will serve pumpkin beer out of an actual hollowed-out giant pumpkin flowing through two taps, orange spheres will fly through the air into Solo Red Cups and a giant jar of pumpkin seeds will wait for the best count guess.

No, we do not mess around with autumn celebrations here at Peaks and Pints.

Peaks and Pints will host the annual Tacoma Elysian Pumpkin Road Show, a prefunk to the Seattle brewery’s grand pumpkin affair that includes 80-plus pumpkin beers Oct.5-6 — the Elysian Great Pumpkin Beer Festival at the Seattle Center. Peaks and Pints will pour Elysian pumpkin beers Gourd Father pumpkin barleywine, Black Galleons pumpkin imperial stout with chocolate and ancho chilies, Goblin Party pumpkin milkshake IPA and Old Fashioned orange pumpkin strong ale.

In addition to the pumpkin beers, we’ll present a pumpkin firkin, pumpkin beer pong, pumpkin seed guessing and giveaways, including a pair of tickets to the Great Pumpkin Beer Festival in Seattle.

Fall has long been the season of the gourd. Pumpkins are the stars of spice lattes; pie and farmers grow them so large that they’re no longer measured in pounds, but in tons. But the simplest pleasure when it comes to the pumpkin is — cue Billy Corgan — drinking gobs of them from a pint.

ELYSIAN PUMPKIN ROAD SHOW TACOMA, 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, Peaks and Pints, 3816 N. 26^th St., Basecamp Proctor, Tacoma, no cover