Pumpkin Beer Tasting + Birthday Recaps • Kath Eats

Right here’s a recap of my pumpkin beer tasting celebration and Birch’s celebration!

Birthday week (and month!) is wrapping up!

I feel the spotlight for me was at Birch’s celebration when he acquired a scorpion LEGO and he checked out me, smiled, and seemed again at his pals and mentioned, “My mother and I are each Scorpios.” He and I actually are two peas in a pod, personality-wise!

I’m completely caked out at this level, which may be good going right into a weekend of sweet! Please deliver on the autumn salads and roasted veggies!

My 2026 Bday Social gathering

Katie and I’ve our birthdays two days aside, so we have now finished a joint celebration the previous few years.

This yr, as a substitute of a bar crawl, we determined to maintain issues a bit extra low-key and I hosted a pumpkin beer tasting at my home.

In the event you recall my tastings again in 2012 and 2014, this was not my first pumpkin beer tasting. Nonetheless, this one was a bit extra laid again. There was no formal blind tasting, however we sampled and rated a handful of the most effective! (Sadly, we couldn’t discover Pumking on the final minute!)

I printed out a bunch of little tasting playing cards, and we wrote the identify of the beer, our score on a scale of 1-10, and notes concerning the style.

We had just a few UVA PhD scientists who determined to compute the outcomes by hand on the spot reasonably than utilizing a pc!

The Greatest Pumpkin Beers (and Their Averages)

Schlafly – 8.56
2 Silos – 7.77
Alewerks – 7.6
Starr Hill – 6.75
Atomic – 6.66
Dogfish – 6.56
Pumqueen Cider – 4.75

In fact, we snacked on cheese, crackers, pretzels, hummus, carrots, and Katie’s epic whipped feta dip.

Ivy The Baker

We’re unsure how critical she is, however Ivy needs to open a bakery, so she supplied to make the cake(s)! She made a pumpkin layer cake with buttercream and a key lime cheesecake that have been each AMAZING!

(For individuals who requested on IG, these are the Quince Bella Denims!)

Afterward, we had just a few karaoke performances after which performed Quiplash and homicide trivia on my TV whereas consuming numerous water!

Birch’s Bash

The subsequent day, Sunday, I performed a morning soccer recreation, after which Thomas and I celebrated Birch. T received a bounce home and these blow-up human balls, and we had pizza and cake. The youngsters didn’t cease shifting for 3 hours straight!

10.26

Then on Monday, the enjoyable continued with my precise birthday! (Birch’s is 10.29!) After all of the weekend celebrations, I merely wished a day stuffed with my favourite issues.

Espresso and oatmeal

And a few studying from this e book {that a} good friend received me!

I headed to the fitness center for Monday morning Flex class.

Maddie received me the brand new anniversary ACAC sweatshirt, which is so cozy I haven’t taken it off! And naturally I wore my Scorpio shirt all day post-shower.