Pumped for pumpkin

This is the weekend pumpkin lovers have been waiting for.

The Lantern Tap House ‘s Elysian Pumpkin Beer Festival, running Thursday through Saturday, features nine rotating offerings from the Seattle brewery , known for its pumpkin creativity.

There’s something for everybody - even those who aren’t fans of traditional pumpkin beers - among the offerings, four of which will be on tap at a time:

- Night Owl (5.9 percent alcohol by volume, 18 International Bitterness Units): The classic, brewed with pumpkin and both raw and toasted pumpkin seeds, along with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.

- Great Pumpkin (8.1, 20): The imperial version, with a big, malty kick.

- Dark O the Moon (6.5, 20): A pumpkin stout with smoky, coffee and chocolate notes.

- Orange is the New Black (6.5, 20): Orange and chocolate pumpkin stout, brewed with defatted Dutch cocoa and orange peel powder, aged on dried orange peel.

- Punkuccino (5, NA): Coffee pumpkin beer made with cold-pressed Stumptown coffee.

- Sardonic Dark Wit (4.9, NA): A dark Belgian-style wheat beer brewed in collaboration with California’s The Lost Abbey.

- Hansel & Gretel (4.7, NA): A ginger pumpkin pilsner with fresh ginger and plenty of Czech Saaz hops.

- P-Smoove (5.1, 11): Pumpkin cream ale served on nitrogen for extra creaminess.

- The Gourdfather (11.2): A big pumpkin barleywine.

You can get a taster tray and Elysian pumpkin goblet for $10. There’s also live music nightly at 10 p.m., with Ishkov and Cold Mountain Yeti on Thursday, Crystalline on Friday and The Longnecks on Saturday.

UPDATE: Elysian’s “Great Pumpkin Roadshow” also is stopping by Crafted Tap House in Coeur d’Alene today (Thursday) starting at 5 p.m.

Pumpkins on Post: And don’t forget the pumpkin festival continuing downtown at the Post Street Ale House , with six rotating pumpkin beers and ciders on tap at all times.