The weather is starting to clear I see some biking in my
future,
but as the weather clears I also see my oldest daughters Softball
season kicking off, my wife delivering our newborn within the next two months
and a lack of sleep that is just unreal.
Meanwhile tomorrow evening I will
officially brew my very first batch of beer at a brew class. I will let you
know how that turns out.
Over the last few weekends I have had the opportunity to try
some great beers,
some okay beers and one horrific tasting beer.
But the actual
tasting has been awesome. To get my Beers To Try Before you Die or the Beer Bucket 52 List I
would assume I will need to try closer to around seventy to eighty beers,
before it is all said and done.
So I have attempted to try at least one each
weekend day and on special occasions like when we have friends and family over
for a UFC fight, sports event or even a family get together.
Grabbing three
types of beers from the store and trying each one, sometimes this works great
other times one is so much better or worse it can boost or lower a rating, but
I try to keep some space in between to be fair to each and every beer. Now as I
say in all my blog entries these are my tastes and try to give props to a beer
that I may not like very much or give a lower rating to by telling the reader
what I think may be good about it. Like the Japanese Green Tea IPA, hell if you
like Green Tea and like a summertime IPA this could be tops on your list, not a
bad beer but not exactly my taste.
But this project has also given me the push to not only try
other brewery’s beers but styles I would not normally grab off the shelf. Was
never big into the IPA category, and now that I have tried some I am getting a
better taste for them. I would have never went out and bought this from Rougetheir Srirachia Hot Stout,
and will probably never go out and get it again, but
I tried it, not a bad Stout, myself I just did not enjoy the spicy finish, but
I can see how people who would enjoy a tasty stout along with a spicy Sriracha
finish would love this brew.
I have found a new love for Stouts and Porters, although I
have always enjoyed the Sam Adams Cream Stout, in the past I may have just
stayed the course buying only the Sam Adams version, I have tried and enjoyed
so many more already and next year will probably put together an all stout
list.
It has also been a blast seeing
friends and family who enjoy trying new beers reaction to a beer maybe I picked
up and hoped they would enjoy, but just as much fun when they pick something
up. A great example would be this past weekend (reviews coming soon) my friend
Rob lives on the Illinois side of the river and we cannot get Dogfish Head beer
here in Missouri, not sure if it is a distribution thing or what but I can’t
get it here. So he picked up three types for our UFC night. Namaste, 90 Minute
Imperial IPA and an Indian Brown Ale.
One was awesome, one was great and one
Okay, but all of them solid brews (more on those when you read my reviews) Man
I can say long gone are the days of drinking shitty beer just to get drunk. Now
I am not saying it doesn't happen from time to time both the shitty beers and
the getting drunk part, but at least I enjoy the beers. The Good The Bad and
the Skunky (well I don’t really enjoy the Skunky but the anticipation to try
any and all is part of the fun)
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