Pump Pump Pumpkin Ale!

I was walking home from work today and strolled by the wine store. I thought to myself it would be a fab day to try a new beer for my Beer Blab. As luck would have it, not even two feet after I passed the wine store I was sucked into its sister store, Carmine Street Beer. I had noticed the enticing newcomer the other day and purposely walked by it.  So you can imagine the lack of my surprise when I found myself through the front door!

Carmine Street Beer is a cool new shop on the block owned by the wine store people, I recognized the owners. I also like wine, I'm classy sometimes. Plus, it can be more bang for your buck if you get wine in a jug. I can not speak of pricing because in the West Village you have to take a loan out to buy a single band aid. Lie.

I walked in and said hello to the people there. I felt like a celebrity in NY, everyone pretended not to recognize me. It was a nice narrow, open space, like the Holland Tunnel but smaller and with beer. I did a quick stalk through and zoned in on the pumpkin ales. A perfect brew for pretending its not August in New York Humidity. I love October and so do those fatty pumpkins. For no real reason I wanted to be loyal to my fellow New Yorkers so I chose Captain Lawrence Pumpkin Ale.

Would you be surprised to learn I really hated this beer? Of course you would because I loved it! I love beer and pumpkins! The only thing better would be if it came with a salted pumpkin seed as a prize. I love prizes. Everyone loves prizes! The beer is very flavorful, a lot of spice to it. It gets better with every sip which I think is the goal for most brewers. I don't feel like the spice overpowers my tongue, it gives it a little punch. Which is better than the choke hold of an ubber spiced beer. Sometimes very spicy beers cause me to drink it in little bitty baby sips until i finish and can switch beer. I can see myself drinking three of these beers and being totally not sick of it. I would probably want more than three but I would stop myself from being a glutton and get an Oktoberfest.

Flanny Beer Rating: 5 plump pumpkins and 4 seeds