Keep your minds out of the gutter. As far as I know, the sweet-tasting yet sticky feeling brown sugar along the glass rim of your pumpkin beer (should your bar choose to do it) is a sweet and sugary sensation that can easily amplify your pumpkin beer. The type of thing is referred to as a "rim-job" as in the rim of your glass.
I've only gone out to partake in this phenomenon just twice this season, but have the same feeling as I have for the past three years when snagging a pumpkin ale at the local pub. It adds an extra kick to the beer, but I constantly find myself complaining half-way through my beers when I get one of these.
I hate to actually sound like some form of a snob on this subject because I rarely end up coming off that way. I know it's ironic given the name of this blog. I just find the dripping of the moistened brown sugar and the stickiness of the fingers that follows to be a constant annoyance. It's almost like a melting ice cream cone, which I find almost even more distracting because I don't enjoy ice cream cones. I'm a spoon and a bowl person. I don't enjoy the fact that I'm re-licking my own spit.
The brown sugar can amplify the taste of said pumpkin beer in terms of sweetness, but as for the aforementioned stickiness. Holy hell. After years of receiving this (and I know you can easily ask for no brown sugar) on the glasses of the pumpkin beers I've ordered I'm not so sure how I feel about it anymore. Nonetheless, I still love pumpkin beer.
No comments:
Post a Comment