Have you ever been cooking, worked busily on mixing up all of the ingredients, cooked the concoction, and then got all worked up preparing to taste your stupendous creation, only to find out you forgot a key ingredient?

Let’s see if I can guess their beer recipe correctly……

• 12 oz of well intentioned, but soon to be disappointing, water
• Unknown, but appropriate, Qty of Suitably Spooky Hops
• Unknown, but appropriate, Qty of tasty Zombie Yeasties who will feast blindly on the putrefying flesh of malted barley
• Unknown, but appropriate, Qty of spices needed, but will ultimately fail to, simulate the presence of pumpkin in an amber liquid
• Unknown, but Infinitesimal and quite possibly a world record holding too-small-to-measure, Qty of Pumpkin
• 1 Well drawn Headless Horsemen beer label
• 1 Ultimately disappointed 12oz brown bottle
• 1 Pretty Blue Beer Cap

Boil all of this stuff together long enough to make it tasty pumpkin-pie-like spicy, but not the least bit pumpkin-y. Toss this pre-congealed mass into the fermenter and let rot until some poor Headless Brewer determines that this stuff qualifies as beer.

Have I nailed the recipe?? I think I have.

To be honest, this stuff actually tastes OK, even if it is a bit on the spicy-sweet side. But in no way whatsoever does it taste the slightest bit pumpkin-y. I have been fu…..uhhhhhhhhhh….. screwed out of $1.59 for Pumpkin Ale with not so much as a pumpkin scented kiss for a thank you.

Pumpkin Head ale, you’re just a tease.