Over the past few months Neil and I have been working on watching the Bourne Trilogy with our good friend Laura who is obsessed with has all three of the movies. Since Neil and I had never seen any of the moveis we decided to do a series of movie nights with drinks and dinner.
Saturday night we finally were able to get together to watch the final movie, The Bourne Ultimatum. We were going to just do popcorn and pumpkin beers but Neil and I ate a late lunch and then both ran so we were hungry for something more substantial than just popcorn. We decided to pick up a vegan pizza from Leonardo’sto have with our popcorn and beer. The pizza was super tasty but unfortunately my stomach didn’t agree, as good as it tasted I ended up with a stomachache by the end of the night due to all the soy cheese.
THE VEGAN SALVATION- Olive Oil Garlic Sauce, Vegan Soy Cheese, Fresh Chopped Spinach, Freshly Sliced Red Onions, White Mushrooms, Plum Tomatoes, Black Olives
Along with our movie, pizza and popcorn we also tasted a variety of Pumpkin beers. Below are the ones we tasted starting with my favorite to my least. Sorry Blue Moon you were awful.
Tasting Beer- Giving it a good sniff first
Now that we’ve finished the Bourne Trilogy we need to think of new movies to watch …hmmm any ideas?
What is your favorite pumpkin beer?
I think my favorite right now is the Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin – yummy stuff! I love beer tasting, it’s so much fun! 🙂
I’ve tried all you have listed above, plus 4 other varieties over the last year or two.
My conclusion: Ship Yard Pumpkin ale is absolutely, hands down, the best. You can definitely taste the pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice.
Second: Saranac Pumpkin Ale-this one is darker. If you can find Ship Yard, I highly recommend it.
P.S.: I agree, the blue moon pumpkin is gross. So is the Sam Adams Hoptober, which is another holiday flavor by Sam Adams.
I like Dogfish Head Punkin Ale this season.
http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/seasonal-brews/punkin-ale.htm
What fun, pumpkin beer tasting!
As far as the vegan pizza goes, my husband and I have recently switched to simply ordering ours without any kind of cheese substitution. Saves those tummy aches (we get them too!).
Happy Halloweeny!
I love Punkin as well! As for vegan pizza we usually don’t get any “cheese” but decided to give it another chance- guess we learned our lesson!
I always “try again” with the cheeze and pay the price. when will I ever learn!!! 😉
Shipyard is, hands down, the best. Followed closely by Post Road (which is really Brooklyn Brewery’s seasonal)!
PS Blue Moon is ALWAYS awful hahahaha