Autumn Beer Review 2016

So maybe you already knew this, but I just figured it out... in the android app you can select all the beers you interested in with the checkmarks and then go to To-Do, Sort how you like (booth, name, release-time) and then hit the share icon at the top and voila you have a full list of all the beers you want which you can e-mail, copy to clipboard or whatever that looks like this (I truncated my list since it was long):

Azacca-to-Me! (Castle Danger Brewery: 10)
Mango Habanero Ode (Castle Danger Brewery: 10)
Nelson Sauvin (Funkwerks: 102)
Raspberry Provincial (Funkwerks: 102)
Saison (Funkwerks: 102)
Solenna (Funkwerks: 102)
Berliner Red Barrel Aged (Empyrean: 109)
Dark Side Vanilla Porter (Empyrean: 109)
Imperial Mango IPA (Empyrean: 109)
Long Route Peanut Butter Porter (Empyrean: 109)
2011 and 2016 Alaskan Perseverance Ale (Alaskan Brewing Co.: 110)
2013 Alaskan Barley Wine (Alaskan Brewing Co.: 110)
Skully #35 (Paradox: 112)
Skully #39 (Paradox: 112)
King Sue (Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.: 114)
Pseudo Sue (Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.: 114)
Sosus (Toppling Goliath Brewing Co.: 114)
...
etc..

 

Yup, I just printed mine, 3 pages front and back. Of course I went with 8 font and have no plans of reading it... just being honest to myself.

 

Anyone have a couple tickets for sale?

 

Did you title it "A guide to alcohol poisoning" ?

 

This is Sold

 

Stubhub had some yesterday.

 

I'll be down to meet anyone at the event. I have 2 tickets if anyone is looking for a pair. PM and I'll get back to you.

 

Is the event okay with people bringing in their own food/snacks?

 

Snacks are fine. You will see lots of people with crazy pretzel/cheese/meat stick necklaces.

 

Goose Island now lists their beers:

2013 BCBS
2014 VR
2015 Halia
Matilda

My body is ready.

 

You must be young. I've thought this many times. I haven't been right yet...

 

GI line was long. I had GI Vanillla many times with almost no line at rare beer fest & the cask of Surly Darkness Vanillla was a a available til 4. I have no regrets,

 

Bouncing between Vanilla Darkness and Double Shot Double Black, I'm still not sure why I even bothered going onto the pavement other than to get a pour of Black Gold. A truly wonderful day today!

 

A lot of fabulous beer. Vanilla darkness... or "vanilla darkness," however, was fucking terrible, despite all of our best hopes. At best it was godawful. It tasted like Able and Eastlake collaborated on a porter that had a baby with vanilla extract and bubble gum.

 

My top beer of the day was Schell's Harmony of Spheres. I will definitely be buying up as many bottles as possible when it is released.

 

I completely disagree & really liked it. BA Ten was really good too.

 

My highlights included Barley John's Old 8 Porter, Bent Paddle DSDB, Forager Cherry Darlin' and Schell's Harmony of Speres. Great day, well-organized with the best weather I can remember.

 

I also enjoyed BA ten quite a bit.

 

Glad to see that Surly really brought it this year, great lineup with some new stuff. I only went through the line once to try BA Ten, which was very good.

Black Gold stole the show, Disgruntled BA Brunch Stout was the new brewery hit of the day, & Tallgrass Key Lime Pie was the absolute surprise of the day. The rep said they were going to can it next summer, & I will be on the lookout. We waded through some other new MN breweries too & did not find anything remarkable, sadly.

Overall a fantastic day, one of the best ABRs I can remember.Mostly.

 

Bruery Sour in the Rye was one of my favorites as well as Lucette's Watermelon Sour Patch Hips don't Lie Hefe and Bad Weathers DIPA, Very fun festival met a lot of familiar faces and made some new friends too