H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N

Lurking the Imposter

Apparently elections are around the corner. Is there a candidate running on making Halloween a national holiday, allowing growth hormone to be readily available, and ensuring my hard earned tax dollars go to education?

Great Pumpkin

Growler of 'The Great Pumpkin' helps ease missing Elysian's Fest.

PUNK'N Harvest Pumpkin Ale - Unita Brewing Company

Vanilla lacing, autumnal color, and crisping clove aromas.

Fairly natural pumpkin starch taste with a spiced finish.

Can't pass up the chance to try a new pumpkin ale.

Quadruple Pumpkin Corned Beef

Corned beef coated in brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg then dropped in a dutch oven on low with DFH 'Punkin' Pumpkin Ale, Elysian 'Night Owl' Pumpkin Ale, Elysian 'The Great Pumpkin' Pumpkin Ale, and freshly plucked pumpkin pieces.

Cooking between the lines, that's what makes my life worthwhile.

Bourbon Aged Roast Pumpkin

Trumps a living dead pandemic. Huge thanks to the finely fanged folks at Fremont Brewery.

Treats

Acid Witch - Rabid Werewitch
Black Tusk - Witch's Spell
Bolt Thrower - Plague Bearer
Church of Misery - Where Evil Dwells
Destroyer 666 - Witch Hunter
Dishammer - Werewolves on Wheels
Drudkh - Glare of Autumn
Electric Wizard - We, the Undead
Eternal Elysium - Rest In Peace
Gates of Slumber - Feast of the Dead
Heathen - Goblin's Blade
High on Fire - Speedwolf
Kilara - Succubus
Melvins - At The Stake
Municipal Waste - The Thing
Orange Goblin - We Bite
Overkill - Raise The Dead
Portal - Omnipotent Crawling Chaos
Pungent Stench - Viva La Muerte
Ravens Creed - Bloodbath
Saint Vitus - Zombie Hunger
Samhain - Halloween II
Sourvein - Septic Werewolves
Villains - Headless Excruciator

Apple Snails - Iron Teeth Torture

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Neon Syrup for the Cemetery Sisters
Bozo Cyclops - Memphis Cadaver
Brother Dege - Mexico
Dax Riggs - Blood Music
Dead Man - Season of the Dead
Frank Sinatra - Autumn in New York
Grails - Reincarnation Blues

M. Ward - Undertaker
Mark Lanegan - Carnival
Nick Drake - Harvest Breed
Pentagram - When The Screams Come
Tom Waits - Cemetery Polka
William Elliott Whitmore - Rest His Soul
Witchcraft - Wooden Cross (I Can't Wake The Dead)

Being undead will be the death of me - BC

Mr. October

The Great Pumpkin - Elysian Brewing Company (2010)

It's back to the 1st beer reviewed for the 1 year anniversary post.

Taken in at cozy, windows open and corned beef cooking in the oven, room temperature.  Frosted buttery pumpkin aromas with a cinnamon seed brittle bite. One of my favorites.  7.7%.

                     Electric Wizard - Black Masses: 11/01/10

To Heavy for Wraps Salmon

Net Caught King Salmon, Egg, Amana Orange Tomato, Cucumber, Tomato, Red Bell Pepper, Avocado, Mango, Lemon, Romaine Lettuce

Dark O' The Moon - Elysian Brewing Company (2010)

I think '09 was the first year that Elysian put this into the bottle.  No better start to the best month.

Shifting cinnamon, ginger, & cocoa aromas.  Coated in a hide of confiture de lait and rabietic roasted pumpkin marrow.

As it warms both hypertrichosis & ravenous spiced chocolate kick in.

Does not mix with silver.