🎃 Pumpkin Beers Have Entered the Chat 🍺

If your favorite fall flavor could jump into a pint glass, it would look a lot like these two. Anderson Valley Fall Hornin’ Pumpkin Ale, brewed in Boonville, CA, is rich, toasty, and spiced just right. (Imagine a pumpkin pie meeting a campfire and falling in love.) It’s aged in stainless steel for a clean finish and made with real pumpkin purée, giving it that deep copper glow that looks like October in liquid form.

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Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale comes from Portland, Maine, where it’s practically a seasonal celebrity. First brewed in 1995, it actually helped kick off America’s entire pumpkin beer craze. This crisp wheat ale is known for its light body, and warm spice aroma. Pro-tip: Drink it from a pint glass with a cinnamon-sugar rim (yes, that’s a thing, and yes, it’s as dangerously good as it sounds).

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Pumpkin beer is the season in a bottle: cozy, nostalgic, and just weird enough to work. Whether you’re carving turkey, pretending it’s cold in Mountain View, or arguing over who’s drinking the “fancier” ale, it’s the perfect companion… unlike your "friend" Scott who insists on dividing the bill to the penny. So grab a pack at Ava’s and toast to fall… before the peppermint invasion begins. 🍂🍺

👃 Smell the P-Patch All Day 🎃

Our Pumpkin Spice Scented Pinecones are what happens when a forest decides to hang out at Red Rock. They smell like your favorite fall latte, but look like something that would fall on your car windshield (hello insurance).

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Why have them around? Because your home deserves to smell like autumn straight-up exploded in your living room. Put them in a bowl, scatter them on a shelf, or casually toss one into a room before guests arrive so they think you actually cleaned.

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Fun fact: Real pinecones only open their scales when the air is dry enough to spread their seeds. These, however, open your nostrils to the warm, cozy smell of pumpkin, spice, and the sweatpants-after-dinner season.

🧑‍🍳 From Juan's Kitchen: Breakfast! 🎃

Start your morning with Juan’s Pumpkin Brioche French Toast! It's golden, cozy, and aggressively autumnal 🍁. It tastes like fall broke into your kitchen, stole your whisk, and said “We’re doing this my way.”

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Made with organic pumpkin purée (yes, the real stuff, available right here at Ava’s Market 🛒), this breakfast is sweet, creamy, and dangerously good. Like, “I’ll-just-make-one-more-slice-oh-what-happened-to-the-entire-loaf" good.

🥣 Ingredients:

• 2 slices of brioche bread
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp evaporated milk
• 1 tbsp pumpkin purée
• ½ tsp vanilla

🍯 Cream topping:

• 3 tbsp plain Greek yogurt
• 1–2 tsp maple syrup
• ½ tsp pumpkin spice

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Whisk your wet ingredients, soak the bread, and cook until it’s a glorious golden-orange — the color of every Bay Area porch right now. Drizzle with your maple-y, spiced topping, then eat immediately before anyone else shows up and you have to "share" with your "family".