Friday F&B

So for this Friday’s Food & Beverage, we are doing away with the food. Since it is 20 degrees cooler than average, raining and miserable here in the Mid-Atlantic, it is the perfect time to concentrate on beverage. And as we know, we here at B&S do like us some beer, this time of year it’s Pumpkin. Before I go any further, it is not a chic beer nor to be equivocated with a pumpkin lattes with “just a bit of whip cream.”  In fact early American colonists used to drink pumpkin beer, including our first president, who apparently made a pretty kick-ass pumpkin porter. However, this was mostly due to the scarcity of hops and pumpkin made for an effective fermentable.

Was fortunate enough to attend a friend’s chili cookout in historic Middleburg, VA last weekend and we drank pumpkin beer, a perfect compliment to it and all things fall. Some favorites include Jack’s Pumpkin Spice Ale, Post Road and Saranac.

“I’ve learned there are three things you don’t discuss with people: religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin.”

– Linus