Reaper: Tuesdays at 9 on the CW. By the way the guy who plays the devil was played Laura Plamer’s father in twin peaks.

Bill – I didn’t know Sam Adams did a seasonal beer for Halloween. I know they have about a dozen Christmas beers, but Octoberfest is new to me. Thanks for the tip. Also, Mark is down in GA right now, so I’ll see if we can’t send him out to try some Savannah Ghost Ale. Sounds awesome. Apparently the Ghost Ale even has its own special insignia. I got online and searched for a pic of the tap, but its nowhere to be found.

Mrs. X – Bourbon Ale sounds repugnant. Seriously, that sounds absolutely awful. I’m surprised you even bought it. Reaper, on the other hand, sounds like it would have made a perfect entry for this year’s Halloween celebration. Too bad this is the first I’m hearing of it. I gotta start watching more TV…

On another topic I can’t believe no one has mentioned the new show on the CW Reaper. This show is really great not only is the story great, but its freakin hillarious and the guy who plays the Devil is awesome. For those of you not familar the basic premise is that this guy’s parents have sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for saving the father from dying. Well the Devil shows up on the guy’s 21st birthday and tells him about the deal and that now he is essentially bound to the Devil as sort of a bounty hunter. He is now charged with capturing escaped souls from hell and sending them back there. He gets a new vessel in which to capture the escaped souls in each week things he has used so far have been a dust buster, remote control car, toaster and a dove. So Sam and his two friends who work at the Work Bench (Home Depot knock off) go about capturing souls each week and sending them back to hell…in addition Sam is trying to go out with this girl he works with at the Work Bench while at the same time trying to keep the fact that he is the Reaper from her. Kevin Smith is a consultant on the show and also directed the first episode. You can by the way watch full episodes on the CW’s website. Trust me if you haven’t seen it check it out…..if it tells you anything even Mr.X likes it and trust me he is not a big sci-fi fan

I’m not going to sugarcoat it, folks, this stuff is fucking nasty. If ever there was a beer that honest to god looked like a Halloween beer, this would be it. Just look at it; very cool full moon, orange graphics, a nice combination of light and midnight blue to suggest a late night visit to a spooky pumpkin patch. Visually, this beer is as Halloween as beer gets without dressing up like a walking corpse and drinking one served by a mummy out of a coffin shaped fridge.

But the taste… god fucking damn. I can’t say it doesn’t taste like pumpkin, because the pumpkin flavor is definitely there. But it so thinned out in a sea of other disgusting flavors that its impossible to enjoy. Not only that, but this stuff leaves a coating of… something all over your mouth. I don’t know what the hell it is, but it feels like the coating of fat you sometimes get on the outside of especially greasy hamburgers after they’ve cooled. And there’s little chunks in it. No, I’m not joking. Little flecks of something or another stuck to your mouth by a thin coating of beef fat. I can only presume the little chunks were spices. For the sake of my sanity, I choose to believe they were spices. Sweet merciful lord in heaven, I hope they were spices.

If you want to know what the beer tastes like, I think I can help you approximate it. Try this: take a bite of overly spiced pumpkin pie and chew it until it has been completely liquefied. Do not swallow. Then take a sip of Coors Light. Do not swallow. Thoroughly swish this around like mouthwash until it has formed a single liquid. Do not swallow. Hold this mixture in your mouth for three weeks, or until the pumpkin just starts to rot. Swallow. There, you’ve just tried Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale.

When it comes to pumpkin I’m fairly easy to please. Hell, I think its fair to say I’m even lenient toward anything made out my favorite squash, and I’m willing to tolerate a lot in the name of eating it. So if I’m telling you that something tastes like pumpkin yet its still inedible, you should probably take my word for it. This stuff is foul.

Special thanks to V for the pic. I wanted to get a picture of this for the site, but left it in her fridge like a dumb ass, so I was forced to periodically beg her not to pitch it until I got a chance to stop by with my camera. She very sweetly housed this poison in her icebox for so long that she eventually took this pic for me just so she could throw it away. What kind of person would throw away five bottles of free beer, you ask? The kind of person who took a sip of the sixth one to try for herself. Trust me, she made the right choice. This stuff is so bad I’m officially bringing back the phrase “grody to the max” to describe it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjUWSfj7fE