Yes, it’s odd isn’t it? Quite how a film company goes in the direction of beer brewing I’m not sure, but who cares as long as it looks good and tastes good eh?

Unfortunately, it’s still a little early to comment on either of those things at the moment, as by the looks of their web-site, the Hammer House of Beer isn’t really fully running yet.

However, they do have a lable for their ‘Curse of Frankenstein’ beer  which looks great for two reasons. First off, the label has a creepy Frankenstein’s monster on it and secondly the beer is a Pale ale which is 7% or so alcohol! Pretty strong!
If it tastes good, they could actually be onto a winner. Shame they missed Halloween this year though, I definitely would have tried some…

You can find out more by visiting: The Hammer House of Beer

I have found one place in the US that actually produces these stickers. The price isn’t bad and they do look excellent. Problem is that it doesn’t do you much good if you live in Europe (getting anything shipped accross always ends up costing more than you think).
The other option of course is to come up with some yourself – which could actually be more fun anyway.
Also, you would be able to personalise the beer for your own needs (intergrate friends names etc).

The idea is so good, that I have been thinking of having a go myself. I’ll post them here if I do.
I will also be looking for genuine spooky beers in the meantime.

Although I do love my Halloween cocktails, I think it’s important to start with beer to ease yourself in to the alcohol and prevent yourself from having to go to bed before midnight because the room is spinning.

This year, I managed to find a couple of nice Belgian beers, one decent English one, and I even had the pleasure of tasting some Canadian beer, brought over especially.

The Halloween beers contenders

Now, I’ll start with the bad news. The two Begian Halloween beers had some funky writing, and try as I could, I wasn’t able to find out what they were actually called.
Therefore, if you’re interested in trying them, you’ll have to go on the above picture (the middle and far right bottles).

The blue/purple one was almost a wheat beer (and could have been, but it was too dark in the room to tell). It was average in strength (about 5%) and was very smooth. Almost fruity.
It was a good place to start.

Next, we moved onto Rogue Brewery’s Dead Guy ale, a Canadian beverage which was pretty crisp, again average strength, and had a pretty cool corpse looking creature on the bottle.

The red Belgian beer, with a which stirring a cauldron was strong. Around 8% alcohol I believe. However, in true Belgian style you could hardly tell.
It had a slight tang to it, which was the only give away.

We also had the pleasure of tasting two pumpkin ales, two perfectly themed halloween beers. One of which was from the English Badger brewery, and the other from Canada.
I have to say that the Canadian ale won hands down. It was very fuity, without being too sweet. It also really retained its ‘pumpkin’ flavour, which you would expect, however the Badger ale was pretty disappointing where that was concerned.

The best of the Halloween beers

To conclude, the Great Lakes Pumpkin ale was almost good enough to move to Cananda for. I just hope that I can find somewhere in England that sells this and the other fine foreign Halloween beers next year!