OCTOBER 24, 2025 | FEATURES | By Megan Burich and Haley Outwater
Hello, Beer for Babes baddies. This week, we wanted to step beyond our porch and go on an adventure to Goat Patch, a tried-and-true neighborhood brewery. For those unfamiliar, Goat Patch is north of Cascade, next to Nightingale Bread (please bring back your hoagies) and Building Three Coffee.
The best way to get to this magical place is by hopping on some bikes with friends and then riding tipsy back (euphoric). It removes the need for a designated driver, and there is truly nothing better than riding after a few beers with the wind blowing in your hair.
So, with a slight fall chill in the air and four bikes locked and loaded, Haley, Megan and two strays, Kwynne and Mariposa, headed to Goat Patch for their fall rotations: Pumpkin Patch Fruited Ale (5.7% ABV) and Spiced Peach Cream Ale (6.1% ABV). At first glance, these sounded horrendous to Haley and Megan, but we persevered for independent journalism and to give our readers the full fall experience.
We started with the Pumpkin Patch Fruited Ale, and already, we were off to a rocky start. A vegetable, and for a fruited ale? Or is pumpkin a fruit? Can someone let us know? Despite this confusion, the taste was not what we expected.
Megan anticipated more of a pumpkin spice ale, like most other pumpkin-themed beers she has had before. Instead, it was very squash forward, lacking the cinnamon and clove accents one might expect. With this came a pretty awful smell before sipping, and a very dark orange color.
And yet, in the wise words of Haley, “I hate this, but it’s not that bad.” It was easy to get down (for Haley—Megan was struggling) and wasn’t offensively sweet or bitter. Overall, we wouldn’t recommend this for our pumpkin spice lovers (shoutout to the pumpkin cold foam at Starbucks), but if you truly appreciate the smell when carving a pumpkin, get to Goat Patch now.
Moving on to the Spiced Peach Cream Ale, this was also somewhat crazy. At first sip, it tasted like a cinnamon sugar donut, with some peach flavoring mixed in. It had a peach cobbler vibe, with a very cinnamon-forward touch.
We kept sipping and repeating that we wished this was a sour. However, if we think back to Red Leg Brewing Company’s Blueberry Cobbler Sour, do we really? Overall, we just wanted a bit more of a bite from this beer, as it was very baseline sweet with no tartness.
These beers paired well with planning our RAGBRAI excursion: the seven-day-long recreational bike ride across the state of Iowa happening next July, as well as a pre-Tony’s Tuesday, and sitting outside at Goat Patch. No chug occurred this week, as one cannot chug a Goat Patch beer (and we forgot).
Overall, we recommend that our readers go out! See the Springs! Get some local beer, just maybe not these ones. Goat Patch’s classic beers are solid and never disappoint, so maybe if you go, try out their IPA or Tiger Tail Ale, CC’s honorary beer. As always, see you next week.