I hope that you all have a great Halloween!!

I've got some of this to enjoy while handing out candy to the kiddies:

Feel free to move this to a more appropriate section of the forums, but I offer a pic of this spirited gal as appologies:

We've discussed the varrying pro/cons of the major holidays in the past to certain degrees, but I strongly disagree with you.  Halloween is chief among the accepted major holidays, followed by the 4th of July and New Years Eve.  You can have my shares of Christmas and Thanksgiving, I won't miss 'em.

still waitin' for word on the Post Road Pumpkin though – ya dint mention that…

hmm, prolly an area we disagree on; I'm a shameless pumpkin addict n' make no apologies

for the most part, I don't have much use for silly-a$$ed beers – gimme a Scottish ale or a Vienna lager with an occasional Pilsner Urquell n' I'm a happy boy …if I do wanna get fancy, it's mostly along the lines of a doppelbock (Celebrator!) or triple-chocolate stout or perhaps a porter – dark n' heavy n' rich…

but, come autumn, I like to indulge in a pumpkin ale n', when I do, I want one that tastes like pumpkin, is spicy & sweet …if I'm gonna end up with an ale that has just a hint of pumkin flavor to it, I'd rather just have a plain ale without it being tainted at all by pumpkin or anything else – if your gonna do it, you might as well overdo it, or what's the point?

not, I hasten to add, the way most brew-pubs do it, taking their best but nonetheless inadequate shot n' then coating the rim of the glass with cinnamon sugar – the beer itself should taste like pumpkin pie, no faking it …the old Blue Moon was like that before Coors emasculated it

I keep looking for another like it with little success; instead, the most successful of the ones I find are much like your description of the Post Road …I suppose those are nice in their way & no doubt a clever exercise of the brewer's art but not what I'm looking for…

…if you run across one of those "fruitcakes", lemme know; I'll prolly like it…