Tell Me About Beer Events
Amongst our tasting group, the general consensus is that last year’s barleywine theme took the crown for Most Ridiculous Tasting—complete with dogs, camping, cookout, bonfire, and a collective next-day headache. (see illustration above) That was until last Saturday with our favorite Kledi family. Our Pennsylvania friends trecked down with a bounty of Tröegs and the Kledi organized a “little” get-together for us to all catch-up on life and try some special stuff. And special it was, as everyone seemed to break out the big guns. (Not literally, of course.) You can see full list of insanity here. Even Asheville Beer Blog deemed it The Night of a Thousand Beers, which admittedly is much more romantic than our title. There was just too much good beer to choose from! Of course, we forgot our camera—that is the only regret. Everyone grazed on incredible food (and thanks, Deuane and Carolyn, for bringing the Pennsylvania-Dutch girl some ring bologna), went home with expanding beer bellies, and likely woke-up with a collective next-day headache. (see illustration above)
Some of our highlights:
Alaskan Barleywine 2007
AleSmith Speedway Stout
AleSmith Yulesmith
DeSchutes The Abyss 2007
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
Fantome Chocolate
Drie Fonteinen Oak Aged Kriek 2005
Lost Abbey Lost and Found
Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut-down AleÂ
Moylans Hopsickle
Old Dominion Oak Aged Millennium Barleywine 2006
Pike Old Bawdy Barleywine
Pizza Port Old Viscosity
Saint Somewhere Saison Athene
Southern Tier Gemini
Southern Tier Choklat
Three Floyd’s Dark Lord
Voodoo Brewing Voodoo Love Child
We can’t stress enough how fun it is to go to beer tastings (or host one). You get to try so many things and after all, sharing is caring! Not to mention you can learn. A lot. Sounds like fun to you? Let us know. We can help you plan.
