Pumpkin Beer!? and Thanks!!!

[Heather Hettick]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at w...> wrote:
> ... it always tastes like beer rather than like the stuff it
> was made out of.

  Ebony Wrote:

<I've noticed that too, Rita.  I guess fermented is fermented is
fermented... or else you and I don't have very discriminating taste
buds!  Even "dry cider" tastes like very weak lager with lemon or
lime to me...>>

Maybe it's the bubbles?  I feel that way about most champagnes.  I do think
different beers have different flavors and textures to some extent, but I'm
not really a beer drinker.  I like to make wine off and on and there can be
a huge variation in flavors, even from batch to batch of the same recipe,
depending on the fruit variety and other ingredients, temperatures during
fermentations, etc.  I don't have access to good wine grapes, but have made
a pretty good dry red wine with blackberries and a passable peach brandy, as
well as lots of stuff that got poured down the sink.  Someday, I want to try
to make Meade, but lately I'm drinking all my honey with tea.

Heather Hettick