{"id":2449724,"date":"2019-10-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=314118"},"modified":"2019-10-10T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:00:00","slug":"libations-getting-pumped-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/libations-getting-pumped-for-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Libations: Getting pumped for October"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Look at those festive sepia tones. I already drank the Woodchuck Cider, sorry.<\/strong>
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The best part of fall is that you have a brief window to enjoy the two best seasonals in the beer horoscope: Oktoberfests and pumpkins. They\u2019re basically the non-dairy equivalent of eggnog: chug enough to get sick on now, because you won\u2019t be able to do it again until next year (if ever again \u2026 what if your tongue falls out?).<\/p>\n

As a man both of science and exquisite taste, I sat down to power through five different pumpkin-inspired brews, a box of White Castle sliders and a \u201cFriday the 13th\u201d marathon but not concentrating just on the summer camp dry-humping scenes this time. My findings will hOrRiFy YoU!<\/p>\n

WOODCHUCK PUMPKIN CIDER<\/p>\n

Color:<\/strong> A cheap light beer.<\/p>\n

Nose:<\/strong> Like spiders who hide under leaf piles and latch onto you when you jump in. This beer smelled like rot and butt. I was scared to drink it.<\/p>\n

Palate:<\/strong> Juicy, and surprisingly bouncy. A little heavy for a cider, but I imagine gourds weigh down any drink.<\/p>\n

Pumpkinyness:<\/strong> 6\/10<\/p>\n

LAKEFRONT BREWERY PUMPKIN LAGER<\/p>\n

Color:<\/strong> Like a fresh, unpopped sunburn blister.<\/p>\n

Nose:<\/strong> Inhaling the guts of a jack \u2018o lantern right after a craniotomy. This is probably how Cinderella felt trying to get home after the ball.<\/p>\n

Palate:<\/strong> Many spices made it taste like eating store-bought pumpkin pie, but without any crust or whipped cream on top. Light, but I wouldn\u2019t call it \u201crefreshing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pumpkinyness:<\/strong> 8\/10<\/p>\n

EDDYLINE PUMPKIN PATCH ALE<\/p>\n

Color:<\/strong> Flavored cough drop.<\/p>\n

Nose:<\/strong> That field trip in elementary school when you go to some farm in the woods and do corn mazes and tip cows.<\/p>\n

Palate:<\/strong> Honey and apples balance it out nicely. Almost a cider, but I could drink it in front of my friends without feeling emasculated. I guess it is still a pumpkin beer, though \u2026<\/p>\n

Pumpkinyness:<\/strong> 5\/10<\/p>\n

FOUR NOSES PUMP ACTION<\/p>\n

Color:<\/strong> Orange and aglow. I can see my reflection and ask who is the harsh-but-fairest in the land.<\/p>\n

Nose:<\/strong> This is straight up Ichabod Crane\u2019s BO.<\/p>\n

Palate:<\/strong> Floral and sweet, but still packing a punch at 7.7%. Abhorrent when you leave it sitting out overnight and try a sample in the morning (for research), but I\u2019m really not going to ding the beer for that mistake.<\/p>\n

Pumpkinyness:<\/strong> 7\/10<\/p>\n

ODDYSEY BEERWERKS FLUFFY PUMPKIN<\/p>\n

Color:<\/strong> Black as a witch\u2019s heart. Black as the lump of coal you deserve for Christmas. Black as the rotting banana on my counter that I think is polluting these nose tests.<\/p>\n

Nose:<\/strong> OMG it smells like a marshmallow! AWWW!<\/p>\n

Palate:<\/strong> Bitter, with muted tones. I guess whipped sugar is a flavor that\u2019s hard to translate to alcohol. But the aftertaste stuck to the roof of my mouth and seconds later I understood the artistry, like when they find a Van Gogh sketch hidden behind a Di Vinci painting.<\/p>\n

Pumpkinyness:<\/strong> 4\/10<\/p>\n

TBH, they all tasted about the same. bwelch@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look at those festive sepia tones. I already drank the Woodchuck Cider, sorry. The best part of fall is that you have a brief window to enjoy the two best seasonals in the beer horoscope: Oktoberfests and pumpkins. They\u2019re basically the non-dairy equivalent of eggnog: chug enough to get sick on now, because you won\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 17:45:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}