Chicago Beer Lovers: Next Event Date

Greatness!

 

Great time was had by all! See ya in Sept!! Thanks to Flesk, 18th st, Spiteful and Chaos for stopping by and/or donating beer to the event for all to try....And as always thanks to Aaron for opening up his place for us all to enjoy! We cracked 120 different beers and some growlers that did not make the pick.....not to shabby...Cheers! Fitz

 

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Uber is the greatest invention of last year.

Sorry I missed it (especially sorry after seeing that empties shot) and looking forward to the next one.

 

I need to get to one of these.

 

I was planning on going, but unfortunately had to work late. Hopefully I can make it out to the next one.

 

As most who were there know, my friend Ruth made a bold attempt to keep a running ledger of each beer we tried. Since so many were assiduous in seeing that she got a chance to write everything down, I though it was only fair that I post the resultant list on line. A few caveats: These are only beers that one or (as a rule) both of us tried, and even then it's not a complete list, as I believe a there were a couple at the end of the night that weren't recorded. There were, of course others opened that we didn't have. There were more vintage bottles than I made note of here - as a rule, we didn't record the years. I didn't include duplicates in the list. Finally, I'm not 100% sure of all of these (my tasting memory gave out around #75 or so, and, although Ruth was more judicious, even our collective memories of the bottles aren't great). Thus, a few of these may be misremembered.



1. Dark Horse BBA Plead the Fifth
2. Crooked Stave Origins
3. Saison DuPont Cuvee Dry Hopping
4. Victory Storm King
5. New Glarus Thumbprint Berliner Weiss (With D’Arbo Sour Cherry Syrup)
6. Hill Farmstead Birth of Tragedy
7. Dark Horse Sour 3 Guy Off the Scale Old Ale
8. Deschutes Mirror Mirror
9. Lawson’s Finest Paradise Ale
10. Alesmith Speedway Stout
11. Cantillon 2012 Cuvee des Champions (Saint-Gilloise)
12. Flossmoor Station Pullman Brown
13. Cascade Apricot Ale
14. Alpine Nelson IPA
15. Weyerbacher Insanity
16. Jack’s Abby Framinghammer Baltic Porter
17. Free State Iron Man Imperial Stout
18. Fantome Extra Sour Black Dark Extra
19. Deschutes Jubel 2010
20. Ommegang Seduction 2011
21. Homebrew Mosaic IPA
22. Homebrew Coconut Milk Stout
23. Homebrew Rye IPA
24. Weyerbacher Riserva
25. Deschutes The Dissident 2008
26. Fat Heads Head Hunter IPA
27. Rockmill Dubbel
28. Westbrook Dark Helmet
29. O’Dell Amuste
30. Colorado Guanabara (Imperial Stout)
31. Lawson’s Finest Chinookerd IPA
32. Cascade Kriek Ale
33. Alchemist Heady Topper
34. Westrvleteren XII
35. Perennial Woodside Tripel
36. O’Dell Deconstruction 2012
37. Rockmill Saison
38. Mikkeller Sour Bitch
39. Russian River Redemption
40. Hill Farmstead Everett
41. Evil Soft DK
42. Two Brothers Hop Juice Black
43. Smuttynose Zineke
44. Southern Tier Plum Noir
45. Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
46. Lawson’s Finest Spring Fever IPA
47. Flat 12 Cucumber Kolsch
48. La Barberie Rousse Forte aux Fruits
49. Spiteful Mrs. O’Leary’s Chocolate Milk Stout
50. Alesmith Decadence 2012
51. Great Lakes BA Black Out Stout
52. Homebrew 3-year-old sour gruit
53. Goose Island Big John
54. Russian River Pliny the Elder
55. Spiteful Messenger IPA
56. Foothills BA People’s Porter
57. Kloster Andechs Genuss Fur Leib und Seele
58. Revolution 3rd Year Beer
59. Upland Blackberry Lambic
60. Boulevard Love Child 3

 

(Cont.)


61. Lost Abbey Red Poppy Ale
62. Argus Cidery Lady Goldsmith
63. Lagunitas Gnarlywine
64. Funkwerks Saison
65. Boulevard Love Child 2
66. 3 Floyds Dark Lord 2013
67. Uinta Crooked Line Sea Legs Baltic Porter
68. Yuengling Traditional Lager
69. Karl Strauss Wreck Alley Imperial Stout
70. Aleworks BA? Kopi Luwak Speedway Stout
71. Cigar City Hunaphu’s Imperial Stout
72. Surly Smoke Lager
73. Alpine Pure Hoppiness
74. Elevation Senorita Horchata Imperial Porter
75. Westbrook Mexican Cake (Bottle)
76. Surly Darkness 2012
77. Cricket Hill Hopnotic IPA
78. Cigar City Camp Braggot Ghost Stories
79. Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout 2011
80. Flossmoor Bourbon BA Hi-Fi Rye Wine
81. Jester King Bonnie the Rare Berliner Weisse
82. Goose Island Madame Rose 2010
83. Karbach 003 Bourbon Barrel Hellfighter Imperial Porter
84. Westbrook Mexican Cake (Growler)
85. Perennial/Deschutes Recital Belgian IPA (Growler)
86. Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout
87. Cigar City Leon
88. Weyerbacher Heresy
89. Anchorage Love Buzz Saison
90. Dunham IPA Belge
91. Hopfenstark Saison Station 55
92. Boulevard Rye-on-Rye
93. New Glarus Anniversary Strong Ale
94. Alesmith Old Numbskull
95. Midnight Sun Arctic Devil
96. Logsdon Seizoen
97. Sweetwater 420 Extra Pale Ale
98. Marshall Wharf Cant Dog Imperial Pale Ale
99. Shorts Anniversary Ale (unknown year)
100. Thirsty Dog Siberian Night Imperial Stout
101. Founders Boltcutter
102. Alvinne Cuvee de Mortagne
103. Verhaege Duchesse de Bourgogne?
104. Shorts Bourbon BA Sustenance Black Beer
105. Ballast Point Victory at Sea
106. Grassroots Brother Soigne
107. Mickey Finn’s Butler Ballpark?
108. Brasseurs RJ Apocalypse
109. Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout 2012
110. New Belgium Rolle Bolle
111. Homedistilled Krupnik with nutmeg
112. Homedistilled Krupnik with anise
113. Pipeworks Better a Witty Fool Than a Foolish Wit
114. Alesmith Grand Cru?
115. Founders Devil Dancer
116. Begyle Hophazard IPA
117. Bear Republic Big Bear Black Stout
118. Pipeworks Blue Lady Berliner Weisse
119. Greenbush Doomslayer
120. Goose Island Pere Jacques 2012
121. Redhook Long Hammer IPA
122. Revolution Double Fist
123. 3 Floyds Deesko
124. Evil Twin Even More Jesus
125. Bruery Bois

Many thanks to all who were there for their generosity, and it was a pleasure to meet you. Ruth and I look forward to attending the next one,

-Dan

 

my body pretty much gave out around pour number 40 or so. i can't even comprehend how two people together could taste that many beers.

 

Yes, it is a lot of beer; however, Dan and I were sharing pours. If you think of it that way, even if you were drinking 2oz. pours x40 vs. our 1oz. each it is a little more understandable. That being said, it was a long and rough night for us and it was a long recovery the next morning. Looking forward to next time! Dan and I are already thinking of beers to bring.

 

Hi-res photo of the lineup

http://totallyhosed.net/images/Lineup.jpg

 

Many thanks to TotallyHosed, BeerMeFitz, and Heineman Bar Company for throwing a great gathering!

Any word on the next event?

 

Nothing yet, but you'll be informed.

 

If I had to guess, it will be a date when I am out of town...

 

Shall there be a Sept. gathering? If not...then perhaps Oct. when all the Fall brews are out in full force? Or even chilly Nov.?

 

We lost the venue. Not sure there will be another.

 

we are a powerful collective force, we can find a venue right? someone on here has to have access to an after hours warehouse or something, or hell I'd chip in 20 bucks to collectively rent out a banquet room or something.

 

Had a great time at the last one...I would totally toss in a $20 to get a banquet hall. Can't break up the force that is Chicago Beer Lovers!

 

in for $20, preferably a location near public transportation. And near a new-york style pizza place.