CBC Pumpkin Ale Fest!

Pumpkin Ale Fest! We decided to spend Halloween evening at Cambridge Brewing Company's pumpkin ale fest instead of handing out candy. I sincerely hope that doesn't make us Halloween Scrooges but seriously kids, we did good by not contributing to your weight gain and tooth decay. ;-)

Being the old folks that we are, we arrived early to secure a table. SE and PFFC joined us a little later on. CBC had some guest pumpkin ales on tap so we sampled quite a few. I think we all agreed that the original (CBC's own pumpkin ale) was the best.





Around 8pm (it was Ada Clock....don't ask...inside joke), they brought out the giant 138 pound pumpkin that had been filled with beer. As CBC said, the pumpkin was so big, so pressurized, and so full of delicious pumpkin ale it put the integrity of their gial walk-in refrigerator at risk. Two men dressed as Franciscan monks wheeled the enormous orange gourde through the crowd while loud Gregorian chant music played over the sound system and people stood on chairs to see what was happening. A tad bizarre and went on a bit too long. We were all warned that they weren't responsible if the pumpkin exploded and pumpkin guts ruined our clothes so I was happy that they decided to wheel the sucker out into the courtyard for the tapping. But then, I was sadly disappointed when there was no resulting splatter on the pub windows when they finally tapped that thing.

It was a fun night although I had way too much beer and not enough food. Fortunately, I wasn't planning on racing NoHo the next day. When we arrived home, we discovered that the kittens had had their own Halloween fun and apparently were miffed that we hadn't given them treats because we received a trick. One half of a mouse left in the family room, entrails hanging out. Happy Halloween.