The Beer Tent

Hoegaarder, one of the best tasting wheat beers I've ever had.

 

Tonight's beer of choice... Sling Jaw IPA from Moonraker, Auburn Ca.

 

This is interesting ... 25 of the Worst tasting Beers

Would make good barter though!!

25 Worst Tasting Beers in America

 

I post here and I have lost this thread so many times it is ridiculous.

As for who drank all the beer.... I think it was @Yard Dart

 

Or three......

 

Found some of this today, had to get a sixer to try. Haven't found my ceremonial church key yet, but will report when I do.
Victory Golden Monkey

 

It is in the drawer, next to the Fridge......

 

Hmmm.. 9.5% Spiced Belgian Blond an a BA Rating of 84 points, not bad!! Golden Monkey | Victory Brewing Company - Downingtown

 

Allrighty then, found the ceremonial church key. Herewith the evaluations.
From my stone mason and his helper:
Panther piss, do not drink. (But they both like pale ales like Yeungling and Bud. Cretins.)
From me:
Very faint sweetness with a rather mundane beer/hops flavor gratefully short on burnt hop undertones. Cannot call it great, but well withing parameters of getting buzzy fast, even faster than a 14% wine. In short if you drink for pleasure, try something else. If you drink for business, it's good stuff.

 

Where I've bee working tha past few weeks...

 

More pics...

 

Today, our two brewers were introduced to the greater Sacramento Beer Community with a meet and greet hosted by Old Town Pizza in Roseville, California. The first 100 through the door received a ticket which allowed them to purchase a flight of four 4 oz. tasters of beers our brewers created. To say this was a success is an understatement. Conservatively, on a cold an rainy morning there were thirty people in line at 9:00AM for and event that did not start until 11AM. The line grew over the remaining few hours and more than 100 were seated in the reserved area for the event. All four of the tasters in the flight were stouts... Ranging from 9% ABV to 14.5 ABV, with three of them being bourbon barrel aged, two of those coffee infused.

After that, the event turned into a bottle share with guests opening one amazing beer after another. One I tasted was a Peanut Butter Stout (PB-Thursday) at 19% ABV from The Bruery in Placentia, California. Our brewer from San Diego brought three kegs from his former brewery Abnormal, they were three of the beers in the flight of four. The forth was brewed by a local brewer in collaboration with an existing brewery/restaurant in Roseville. Did I say that the flight of four were each equally amazing!

Anyway, so much for my first day, now comes the work to get this brewery going and the brewers freed up to brew instead of painting and decorating or running lighting...

 

The radio club meetings are held in a pub just down the hill from here. Pete dabbles in serving experimental brews from more or less local breweries. I almost always take his recommendations, and the best so far was a 14.5 percent chocolate porter. Did I remember the name? Hah. What chu think, Willis?

(The sibling vanilla porter just plain sucked. Only 9.5 percent and tasted awfully thin.)

 

I agree in that I like my Stouts and Porters to have plenty of malty backbone, to the point where they are almost chewable or approach the consistency of syrup! One guest brought this bottle... Well, one like this bottle because I didn't get a pic!

 

Side light. When I showed up at one of the meetings I mentioned above, Pete asked me what I wanted. My very loud answer was something like "Gimme one of the blackest sewer bottom brews you have back there, draft or bottle." Heavier than I should have been on "black" but drew some laughs as well as funny looks.