In case you haven’t heard, it’s October, and Halloween is soon. Of course, Halloween means pumpkins, and pumpkins can be turned into variety of things. This includes carriages and our preferred pumpkin derivative: beer.
This month we are enjoying Nightmare on Mill Street, a lovely Pumpkin Ale from believe it or not… Mill St Brewery. Who would’ve thought? Today we have several guest columnists including Anish Bhutani, Derek Thompson, Ronak Shah, and also Megan Pollock, Bin Tandura and Cameron E. Winterink; President, Imprint Publications Corporation. The last three aren’t drinking Nightmare, but are nonetheless here so they get to talk too.
Tim is drinking Blackthorn and made the apt point that while pumpkin is in season, apple is also a lovely fall fruit and is, in fact, always in season, making it in season right now. Enjoy a lovely apple pie, tart or crumble is always a wonderful choice. Cider is good as well.
Megan isn’t drinking Nightmare, but also makes the point that it tastes like pie.
Cameron E. Winterink does not like pumpkin things. But he is making us laugh, so he can stay. He is drinking Erdinger Weifbier, which is Alexa Baker’s favourite beer. Which is all we’re going to say about that. For more info read…
Now….on to the main topic of the article, Nightmare on Mill Street. The beer itself isn’t bad. It has a very noticeable taste of pumpkin spice, like a pumpkin spice latte but with beer, so it’s better. It could use a good deal more carbonation though and has very little bite to it. But overall, the beer is rather tasty, but leaves a lot of room for improvement.
Now it’s time for a new and possibly one time article feature; Quote time with the people at our table at Kickoff’s
“[The Beer] needs more head” – Ronak Shah
“Cribbage is a great game and you should all learn to play” – Tim Bandura
“This Pumpkiny Nightmare, although not as heavy as other pumpkin ales provides a flavour of pumpkin far more flamboyant…lets not use that….than other beers of this style and season” – Derek Thompson, Presidential Candidate
“No comment” – June Lowe
“I don’t know if it’s my old age or the strength of this pumpkin ale, but this beer has made me forget about my woes as an (f)unempleyed grad, and for that I am grateful that this exists.” – Anish Bhutani
“I’ve been asked to type a quote while Graeme pays for the beer. This being the case, you should all read the wiki article on Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, the French Marshall who basically revolutionized seigecraft. Additionally, if you are interested in being the new Imprint EIC please contact me” – Cameron Edward Winterink
Based on the above quotes and our highly stringent review and scoring process, we have decided to give the beer 3.2/5 Surly Bartenders.
Next time, we’ll talk about the effects of plagiarism on microfluidics.
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