Harpoon Pumpkin Cider:
Hello one and all and welcome back to the best little beer review website in Texas.  Well, maybe best on this side of the block anyway.   Since we are now in that peculiar month of October with it’s daily weather changes, let’s start to look at pumpkin beers and ciders.  Since we’ve already done a pumpkin beer already last month, let’s take a look at a cider, in particular Harpoon’s Pumpkin cider.  This cider pours a very light blonde (or “straw”) color that is nearly crystal clear with a crisp white head on it and a light nose of apples with a touch of pumpkin pie.  The beers…er…cider’s taste is well, like a cider with only a hint of pumpkin on the very back end of the cider.  The rest is a clean apple taste that is common in most ciders and it’s sweet which is common in most American ciders (that will illicit a big ole “BOOOO” from me).  Supposedly there is a mix of pumpkin spices like cinnamon, ginger, clove, and nutmeg but really I could only taste that only after researching the cider so it’s up in the air if I really tasted it or imagined it.  Not really a good cider but it’s the first pumpkin cider that I’ve ever had and it’s the benchmark until something better comes along.