Captain Morgan Jack-O’Blast Pumpkin Spiced Rum

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  • Pumpkin Spice Mixed with Rum! Umm… Need I say more?!
  • Pumpkin Bottle=LOVE
  • The group took it as a shot, but I actually sipped on it. I really enjoyed it!
  • Think it would be really good with Coca-Cola/Pepsi
  • Or it would also be a good pair with Pumpkin Ale and maybe a splash of ginger beer or ale? Topped with some cinnamon sugar? Hmmm
  • Great consistency/nice finish

Pumpkin Score: 5 out of 5 Pumpkins!

Company Score: 15 out of 5 Pumpkins!

*Thanks to the lad that purchased this! He is a real BLAST as well. 

 

Ample Hills Creamery Fall 4-Pack Ice Cream

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The Fall 4-Pack is a curated selection of Ample Hills’ favorite fall flavors!

  • Vanilla Bean: made with steeped Mexican vanilla beans and Madagascar bourbon vanilla extract
  • Nonna D’s Oatmeal Lace: brown sugar cinnamon ice cream with Nonna’s homemade oatmeal lace cookies
  • No Sleep Till Pumpkin: coffee ice cream with pieces of housemade pumpkin ooey gooey butter cake
  • Autumn in New York: apple cider sorbet made with cinnamon, cloves, ginger and amaretto liqueur

My favorite was “Autumn in New York”.  Just so happens that’s also my favorite tagline in general. Sure has been a splendid Autumn so far!

Thanks the Dudley’s who shipped this ice cream and provided for the 2nd Annual Pumpkin Party. I feel very honored to have such great friends that also care about my pumpkin obsession. Hearts all around. 🙂

Every pint of Ample Hills ice cream is made at our shop in Gowanus, Brooklyn. We are a growing and evolving business, but we still make our ice cream the same way we did when we opened three years ago: pasteurizing on-site, making mix-ins from scratch, and challenging ourselves to make the next best flavor.

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Pumpkin Score: 4 out of 5 Pumpkins

Southern Tier: Pumpking- Rum Barrel Aged

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  • I would say this is better than the original Pumpking
  • Nice switch with the Rum flavor
  • Easy to drink
  • Smells amazing
  • Always RAEmember to drink RAEsponsibly

ABOUT THE BEER
STYLE: Imperial Pumpkin Ale Aged in Rum Barrels
BREWED SINCE: Back for 2016!
ABV: 9.6%
FERMENTATION: Pumking, but aged in Rum Barrels
COLOR: Bright, deep copper
EFFERVESCENCE: Ample
NOSE: vanilla, brandy, subtle stone fruit, slightly boozy
FLAVOR: honey sweetness, graham cracker, vanilla, mild caramel. Full, rich, alcoholic warming sensation which increases drastically as it warms
BITTERNESS: Moderate
BODY: Light
SERVING TEMPERATURE: 40-50°F
GLASS: Snifter, goblet or stemmed glass

Pumpkin Scale: 4 out of 5 Pumpkins

Doc’s Draft Pumpkin Hard Apple Cider

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Had this gem on top of a friend’s homemade Apple, Cinnamon, Nutmeg Sangria. Ah-may-zing!

A seasonal cider made with roasted pumpkins, cinnamon, allspice, fresh ginger and nutmeg. (6% alcohol)

  • Nice change to typical cider beer
  • Tad sweet
  • Nice finish
  • Perfectly paired as a topping to a Fall Sangria

Warwick Vallery Winery: Available Aug 15 – Oct 15

 

Pumpkin Scale: 3.5 out of 5 Pumpkins

Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Ice Cream

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  • Pumpkin- ish
  • Great consistency for ice cream
  • Tad too sweet= can’t eat too much
  • Overall, good flavor

From what I RAEcall, I believe that Edy’s Pumpkin Ice Cream was a tad better, but looking to find that, no luck yet. Also, would really love to find a Pumpkin Gelato! As I prefer gelato to ice cream. Talenti, where are you with your pumpkin!?

Pumpkin Score: 2 out of 5 Pumpkins

Trader Joe’s: Cold Pressed Juice: Pumpkin Harvest

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Each bottle contains:

  • 1/20 of a Pumpkin
  • 2 Carrots
  • 3/4 Celery Stalk
  • 1/8 Sweet Potato
  • 1/8 Orange
  • 1 inch of ginger
  • Pinch of Tumeric
  • 120 calories per bottle
  • 23g of Sugar
  • 3g Protein
  • 28g Carbs

As a juice drinker, this was a welcome change to my typical green juice. Not only because it was orange, but because the hint of pumpkin made it worthwhile and made me forget I was drinking something healthy.

All in all, I love everything about this juice, especially because I have been looking to intake more tumeric in my diet and really don’t like the taste as is.  And since I have the ingredient list I can make this at home, but likely I will just buy more (since I need to make another TJ’s run… they have so many Pumpkin things that I still have to try!)

I would highly recommend this to my juice people. Even if you don’t like pumpkin, but  you like juicing, THIS was a really good combination.

Pumpkin Score: 4 out of 5 Pumpkins

*While it wasn’t super pumpkin-y, this received higher marks  because it was a new take on pumpkin, and how pumpkin should be used more.

Thank you Trader Joe’s — You always slay on the pumpkin pickins!

Pillsbury Quick Bread: Pumpkin

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1st off my apartment smelled amazing after baking this! And talk about EASY! This took about 3m to prepare, then bake for 50m.

  • Delicious flavor- Pumpkin-Y
  • Great consistency
  • Tastes so great right out of the oven, with butter and a cup of coffee.
  • Also tastes great on day 2 and 3
  • Similar to Pumpkin Loaf at Starbucks [think it’s even better]
  • Would be amazing with a little bit of icing on top. Next time!

Pumpkin Score: 5 out of 5 pumpkins

Harpoon UFO Pumpkin

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Harpoon’s UFO Pumpkin beer was pretty good, but nothing crazy. Easy to drink more than one as it was not too sweet, but I really didn’t get too much of the pumpkin-y taste that I was hoping for.

Sharing it with a handsome gentlemen definitely was better than it tasted.

Tasting Notes

  • Appearance:  Amber and orange with a slight haze
  • Aroma:  Malty with hints of pumpkin and spice
  • Mouth feel:  Slightly sweet and smooth
  • Taste:  A solid malt backbone highlighting German Vienna and Munich malts with a nice dose of pumpkin and spice, reminiscent of pumpkin pie
  • Finish:  Easy drinking with a lingering pumpkin aftertaste on the back of the tongue

Pumpkin Score: 2 out of 5 Pumpkins!

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