Let Us Partake

I have many pumpkin beers that I purchased last year. Some for reasons because I loved the beer and felt guilty drinking it (i.e. Dogfish Punkin and Pumking). Others because I was disappointed due to a change in the recipe (Smuttynose Pumpkin). As for the latter, it was a complete difference from last year. I can only hope that a year of aging for the half-case that remains in my hands can do the beer some good.

There's a scene in The Longest Day in which a German general realizes that they might lose the war because Adolf Hitler's taking of a sleeping pill, he remembers that he has a bottle of cognac that's unopened and was saved for a special occasion. I sure as hell didn't keep half of an unopened case of the Smuttynose for any special occasion.

One of my favorite cinema lines also comes from that scene. (Check all of it out around the 3:30 mark! The book is an excellent and well-researched account of both sides throughout the entire invasion)

"We are witnessing something that historians will always say is completely improbable and yet it is true."

There's also half a case of Brooklyn Pumpkin that is hidden somewhere in my stash. It's not there for either reason. I didn't think it to be amazing or terrible. Right in between. We're getting pretty close to being half-way through September and I feel that it's close enough to fall that I can feel very comfortable dipping into the pumpkin stash for 2013.

I also haven't forgotten about that pumpkin variety case I came across through a high school friend that purchased almost 24 cases of pumpkin beer and put one of each into each case to share among others. I've tried a few of the bottles in the case already. Those included Ithaca's Country Pumpkin and the ever elusive Schlafly Pumpkin. One I loved and the other I wasn't exactly jumping up and down over.