It seems to happen more and more often: You go out for a beer and the guy on the stool next to you is a fellow beer-lover/beer-geek. Mark is one I met just this week and he was kind enough to send BLCB a complete report from the beerfest this past weekend.
From Mark (My notes are in parentheses)
For the record, here was the list of beers that I sampled:
Scarlet Lady
Stoudts
Copper Ale
Otter Creek
Blonde
Hooker Ales
Extra Brune
Brooklyn
Nut Brown Ale
Spanish Peaks
Extra Dry
Asahi
Kellerbier
Triumph Brewing
La Nuit
Triumph Brewing
Vibrator
Nodding Head
Double White Ale
Southamptom
Ruination IPA
Stone Brewing
Big Dicks Olde Ale
Arcadia Brewing
Oktoberfest Biere
Spaten
St. Bridget’s Porter
Great Divide
Pomegranate Wheat
Saranac
Hoptimus Prime
Legacy Brewing
Porter Ale
Cricket Hill
Golden Ireland Parish Ale
Paper City
Amber Ale
Eel River
Railbender
Erie
Scottish Ale
Gritty McDuff
Old Brown Dog
Smuttynose Brewing
#9 (to clear your pallet?)
Magic Hat
Double Bag
Long Trail
Morimoto
Rogue
Shakespeare Stout
Rogue
Hairy Eyeball
LaGunitas
Small Craft Warning
Heavy Seas
Loose Cannon (I was raving about Loose Cannon just last week)
Heavy Seas
Pils (I’m glad to see Straub still kicking. Wish I could find it on tap in Philly)
Straub
Helles
Climax Brewing
Big Black Voodoo Daddy
Voodoo Brewery
3 Philosophers
Ommegang
Grand Cru
Atomium
Best in Show (my opinion) went to Big Black Voodoo Daddy, a pretty strong, Imperial Stout made by a relatively new brewery up near Erie in a little town called Meadville… decent name for a brewery’s home town.
They give you 4 hours to sample as many beers as you’d like. Pacing is critical so that everything doesn’t start tasting the same. There were probably more than 100 brewers represented and each had between two and five beers.
It’s Sunday morning and I’m up writing emails… how bad could it be? One solid word of advice, don’t drive to the Beer Fest because you’d have to drive home.
You gotta give him props for remembering every beer he tasted. He must’ve written ‘em down on his arm!
Thanks, Mark!
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