If only Kerry had won the election, this is the type of utopia we'd live in:

http://beeronomics.blogspot.com/2010/07/taxes-again.html

So we've all become teetotalers then?

Apostel Bräu

This is a lager, German style.  Erstmals gebraut 1713.  I wish it came in a can the size of the one pictured on the label.  It's humid here and I'm thirsty.

I'm totally out-posting you all.  And you're apparently hanging out without me this weekend?

Oh hell yes.

But what's inside those bottles....?

Think I might.

Darkness

Drinking an 09 darkness - good, but not as good as they were with hot hops. It's a little Too mellow now I think, but still tasty. Mental note: next year drink the full allotment on day one.

Barrel of Monkeys

Duane & I did the Mikkeller barrel horizontal on Sunday. Luckily these were 12oz bottles because it is a very diesel beer. It was pretty cool to see how different the exact same beer tasted out of different barrels. We ranked them:
Bourbon>Wine>Rum>Scotch

I thought the bourbon ones were great and highlighted the coffee. The wine was a little fruitlet and more mellow but kind of plain. Rum was too sweet and highlighted the honey too much in a weird way. Scotch was a drainpour - tasted like celery juice or like it had been in treated deck lumber barrels. Awful. Crazy how different bourbon and scotch could be though.

I also decided something with peppery hops would be good in tequila barrels.

Trpoical Fruit Bomb!?

So our efficiency was quite poor, but here's to good things a comin'. Preliminary tastings, I shit you not, this beer tastes like Guava. Make of that what you will.

Immort

REALLY sweet ; peppery hops ; campfire smoke - like a slightly better new holland smoked doppelboch

14 ... Like Pete Rose

Tiny?