{"id":735,"date":"2010-09-08T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=735"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:17:09","slug":"mussel-inn%e2%80%a6-pumpkinsomething","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/08\/mussel-inn%e2%80%a6-pumpkinsomething\/","title":{"rendered":"Mussel Inn\u2026 Pumpkinsomething"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mussel Inn Pumpkinsomething, probably 'Happy Jackal'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I totally forgot the name of this thing, but the only mention of a pumpkin beer on the Mussel Inn’s awesomely \/ terrifyingly retro website<\/a> — it just screams Microsoft FrontPage, which was last released seven years ago<\/em> — is one they call ‘Happy Jackal’ (I’m not sure why<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Dogfish Head’s Punkin’ Ale was a surprising find, for me, at Beervana; despite hating pumpkins, I freaking loved it. So this draws inevitable comparisons against that<\/em>, and I’d have to say that the Dogfish one does win, hands down — but there’s hardly any shame in that. This just lacks the smoothness that a good pumpkin ale can get you. My brewer-nerd friends point out that the actual pumpkin<\/em> basically boils \/ ferments away to nothing, so these beers are all about that texture, and the spices you throw in with it — they’re more pumpkin pie<\/em> than pumpkin pumpkin<\/em>. Mussel Inn’s offering certainly has those spicy flavours in abundance, and the lighter body does leave it as a perfectly-respectable and interesting quaffer.<\/p>\n

And wow, if you write “pumpkin” eight or nine times, it starts looking really<\/em> weird.<\/p>\n

\"Mussel<\/a>
Diary II entry #3, Mussel Inn 'Pumpkinsomething'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Mussel Inn Pumpkinsomething 8\/9\/10 — woot! — ?%, also gifted. \u00f72 from an old-school Mac’s bottle w\/ Haitch. Definitely spicy + especially cinamonny. H freaked out that I knew what Big red gum was; she’s not used to my Cosmopolitanism, still. I have to compare it to Dogfish Head Punkin Ale, which I had at Beervana, and must say this isn’t a patch on that, which I was surprised to find enjoyable. Much less body, here. Lacks that fullness + smoothness. Ah! Turns out that Punkin is named for the Punkin’ Chunkin’ Fest! Drinking the remainder faster, I discover this works better as a quaffer than a sipper; like a spiced wintery lager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I totally forgot the name of this thing, but the only mention of a pumpkin beer on the Mussel Inn’s awesomely \/ terrifyingly retro website — it just screams Microsoft FrontPage, which was last released seven years ago — is one they call ‘Happy Jackal’ (I’m not sure why). Dogfish Head’s Punkin’ Ale was a … Continue reading Mussel Inn\u2026 Pumpkinsomething<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,14,13],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","tag-pages","tag-nz","tag-fruit-beer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":727,"url":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/09\/07\/mussel-inn-pale-whale-ale\/","url_meta":{"origin":735,"position":0},"title":"Mussel Inn ‘Pale Whale’ Ale","author":"Phil","date":"September 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"You do meet some choice people, in a job like mine. 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