Yesterday I attended the annual Brickskeller Holiday Extravaganzee. This is pretty popular with both the tasters and the brewers. They had a full line up of 13 beers to taste with the brewer on hand to discuss each one. These were all local brewers as opposed to the all-star event last spring. And the beers averaged about 7% or 8% so as usual things got more interesting as the evening went on. I don’t seem to recall going to bed last night. List o beers:
- White Marsh – Winter Solstice
- Vintage 50 - Wee Heavy
- Brewer’s Art – Coup de Boule Grand Crue 2008
- Brewer’s Alley – Three Kings Spiced Ale
- Legend – Belgian Triple
- Flying Dog – Snow Goose
- Flying Dog – Dog Schwarze
- Franklins – IPA2
- Franklins – Imperial Stout
- Sweetwater Tavern - Happy Trails Spiced Ale
- Sweetwater Tavern – unfiltered Holiday Bock
- Johannsens – Black Forest Stout
- Star Hill – The Gift
Mark Thompson of Star Hill, the evangelist, was pretty funny. Apparently he is known to be entertaining. I don’t remember his beer much but I may go to RFD tonight to taste the last ever keg of the award winning Smoke Out.
I learned that Sweetwater Tavern is three independent operations that try to brew the same beers. The Holiday Bock was still about 3 weeks away from being tapped and will be served filtered.
The young brewer from Johannsens had a pretty funny story about having to decide between the shitter or the beer when he was brewing the Black Forest Stout.
The Winter Solstice had cocoa nibs and some crazy strain of vanilla in it. It was definitely unique and not bad. I think this was the brewer who was a baker for his day job which is an interesting combination.
It was a good sample of different winter beers. I need to take notes next time.
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