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& so on...gates are open...

in line in Munster...just Deschutes Stoic & Ballast Point Victory at Sea so far...

fuck that...join us in Munster:)...

last year's Founders Backwoods Bastard...so good...

Founders Harvest...

Bell's Hell Hath No Fury... hope acceptable birthdays were had...

beer by candlelight...Sun King Jungle Room DIPA....love me a good description...Grapefruit Jungle meets Cream Dream IV: A New Hop West Coast Imperial IPA:)... wish this was still being growlered...FFF 15th Anniversary Party's Saturday...

Sun King Pale Ryder Rye Pale Ale...top notch...

there are instructions on the bottle....RTFM:)....

ya...so last night there was a going away party for a cool guy I know who's a pretty big player here... let's see...'07 Lost Abbey Cable Car, Bruery Black Tuesday, Three Floyds Alpha Kong, Jackie O's Brandy Barrel Superfly, first batch Ithaca Brute, '10 Surly Darkness, Surly Wet, Victory Otto, Deschutes Fresh Hop Mirror Pond, Goose Island Imperial Brown Goose, Dark Horse 3 Guys Off the Scale, Olde Hickory Irish Walker, Bier Barleywhine, Mikkeller Black, Hoppin' Frog D.O.R.I.S., '07 Alesmith Grand Cru, Allagash Vagabond, Birra Del Borgo 25 Dodici, Deschutes Hop Trip, Russian River Pliny the Elder, '09 Founders Nemesis, '10 Founders Nemesis, Hill Farmstead Anna, Lost Abbey Angel's Share (Bourbon)...I'm sure there were others...

I've really liked all that I've had from New Glarus... Surly Wet...

two for Tuesday...

Saturday: started with Dark Lord Eggnog...delicious... table full of goodies... my table had a selection of cheeses & bread...I brought regular, vanilla, coffee & rare BCBS as well as Jolly Pumpkin La Parcela, Nøgne Ø Sunturnbrew, HaandBryggeriet Smoke without Fire, Smuttynose Homunculus, FFF/DFH/Short's Cornholio, Jackie O's Grand Wazoo, CCB Guava Groove & some others... Flossmoor Station Killer Kapowski, Bruery Mischief Gone Wild & Jackie O's Oil of Aphrodite... Jackie O's Rum Barrel Oil of Aphrodite... Olde Hickory Imperial Stout (2011) & Death By Hops... Odell Friek... Short's Soft Parade & Bloody (Mary) Beer...their Key Lime Pie (beer) was also there... Trinity Emma's Coffin... Twisted Pine Ghost Face Killah...world's hottest beer(?) made with ghost peppers... East End Gratitude... there were others, but those are the ones I took pics of:)...I also recall Surly Wet & Furious both being there...& some CCB Warmer Winter that I didn't get around to...New Glarus Spotted Cow, a truckload of homebrew most notably from Balls Brewing...& someone pushed that banana bread beer on me...I got better...

unbelievable...eagles had 'em beat on the receiving game so they chose to run it in crucial situations... raffy's revenge:)...

four Eagles...do something...ANYTHING Vick & I'll win...blerg...

Founders Red's Rye on tap... Central Waters Glacial Trail IPA....workin' on a sixer...

been feelin' rotten the last few days...can't motivate myself to post the twentysomeodd beers I had Saturday...but I am proud that I didn't cave & drink all the bottles of this I bought to ship:)... Founders Backwoods Bastard on tap...

I'm at a beer event...will post more later... but to give you some idea: Dark Lord Eggnog...

Dark Truth to comply with International Stout Day...saving some stuff for a beer event Saturday...

guess there's more to the 15:15 description... 5 malt, 7 hop barleywine aged in Sazerac 6 year rye whiskey barrels... next beer coming up...if this one doesn't first...

Shmaltz/HE'BREW Genesis 15:15 Barrel Aged Harvest Barleywine Ale... ale brewed with pomegranate juice, fig juice, date & grape juice, aged in rye whiskey barrels... well...it's not boring...

2 x Bruery/Dogfish Head Faster, Bigger, Better, Bolder (Gradually, Quietly, Steadily) 2 x Mikkeller Barrel Aged Chipotle Porter (Texas Ranger) 6 x Founders Backwoods Bastard I insist that the beers I buy have silly names...

fair point, but I was close enough that my sister would've got it:)...I'm tempted to check my notes for the rest of that night...I hope it wasn't expensive...

you don't remember the time that Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out?...

^^no one else grew up in the '80's?...Shel Silverstein?...fine:)... Abita 25th Anniversary Vanilla Doubledog...a light bodied dessert beer?...why didn't anyone else think of this before?...um...ya...not my favorite brewery...& I've been there & taken the tour...