Foam Hopping...

A new technique developed by home brewers to improve beer...

"It smells like fucking pumkin pie!"

"Yeah, it does. Exactly." Responded my brewing companion. We'd just finished the Goat Scrotum Wort and put it into fermentation. He'd gone to The Beer Store (that's the store where I buy my Pilsner and Franziskanner, just up the street) and asked for a recommendation. Only the guy who used to work there and has excellent taste in beer doesn't work there any more. So we had to ask for a rec from a different guy. He assured that the Pumpkin Ale is good.

It's not fucking good. It smells like pumkin pie and it tastes like pumkin pie and fuck that.

This is how foam hopping was invented: that goddamn pumkin pie ale needed to be fixed. I had about half an once of old cascade pellets. I crushed one into the pumkin pie beer. Wait five minutes. The bad beer now smells like hops. This makes it more drinkable bad beer.

Foam hopping is best avoided. To avoid it, drink better beer. Failing that, foam hop it.