The theme I use for the site needs updating. Every time I log in, the little “1” next to the Updates tab stares scornfully at me. I’ve avoided updating, trying to ignore that little “1”, because I didn’t create a new theme and then tweak it; I directly tweaked the old theme. Naughty, naughty. But if I update the theme, it will probably break the changes I made. However, I’ve been toying with changing up the look of the site, and that would be a good enough reason to go ahead and update and break everything. Stand by, the site might look funky for a few days as a result.
Terrapin is a local company, so I want to like it. It’s got a nice orange color, decent head, and a fair pumpkin-spice odor. However, it’s also got a very hoppy taste… a little too hoppy for me. Not unpalatable to me, but still too hoppy for my liking. It tends to overwhelm any pumpkin spice taste until after the swallow; although it’s a nice graham-cracker taste then. I’ll have to give it a pass.
Blue Point Pumpkin Ale is definitely not too hoppy. It’s also not very… pumpkiny. Not very malty, either. In fact, other than the color, there’s really nothing there to distinguish it from a Bud Light. Pretty disappointing, and I’m glad it was gifted to me rather than my having wasted money on it. Probably the bottom of the list of any of the pumpkin beers I’ve tasted.