Labor Day Weekend 2016 Beers?

Black Note
Maybe I can get my hands on the latest Grimm release, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

This weekend and all of next week we will be in the Boston area on a trip, so we will be stopping at around 10 different breweries.

 

Labor Day weekend means it's lake time. As always that means there will be a couple 4-packs of both COOP F5 & Horny Toad in the cooler, Miller Lite (for the ladies & to use for Beersbee), Lost Forty Love Honey, Ozark Pale Ale & SN Oktoberfest. Bombers for the evenings include: Mother's Imperial Three Blind Mice Bermuda Style, Stone Southern Charred (2015), & Boulevard Rye-on-Rye X Sazerac Cocktail.

 

Not a fan of pumpkin beers but im open to any recommendations? Is it too soon to just drink all octoberfest!

 

Well, since Labor Day is the mythical end of summer & the beginning of fall, you could start with hefeweizens, transition to Kölsches, then some blondes and/or session pale ales (with or without the "I"), then a few top quality Pils, and then end the weekend with the Oktoberfests!

 

No, If you want to drink Octoberfests drink them!

 

I just got a beer of the month pack from Craft Beer Cellar in Fort Collins. Most Oktoberfests and pumpkin beers which I'm not super thrilled about. So this weekend's beers will likely be:

Avery The Kaizer Imperial Oktoberfest
Santa Fe Oktoberfest
Dry Dock Imperial Pumpkin
Southern Teir Warlock
Sierra Nevada - Mahrs Oktoberfest
Fort Collins Oktoberfest

I will be quite the Oktoberfest expert by Monday.

 

Romulan Ale?

 

I am drinking my usual bittburger and maybe another of the fall case from saranac. This is one of those cooking holidays yes? Something new of course.

 

Demo Tape Five: American Brown Porter from Exhibit 'A' Brewing (in the old Jack's Abby space)
Have a few cans of assorted Burlington Beer Co beers to try
I've got a bottle of Rubens (Belgian-style dark ale aged in oak barrels with cherries, cacao nibs, and coffee beans) from Night Shift my Brother in-law is begging me to crack open. Maybe we will light a fire and enjoy that one.

 

I'm headed to Vermont tomorrow for the mount snow brewers fest...
Pretty solid lineup there..

 

Currently in my fridge for the weekend:

Alchemist
Element
Rock Art
Lord Hobo
Weyerbacher
Slyfox
Old Milwaukee
Troegs
Lagunitas

 

What is it about Brooklyn Lager? I loved it the first time I had it, went through the IPA phase, wondered if I would still like it and can't quit.

 

Brick & Feather, Throw Me The Idol DIPA

 

I still have a bottle of Parabola waiting to be drank...maybe this is the weekend.

 

My drinking buddy is coming over Saturday night. Hoping to pop open the following:
Stone WootStout
Mikerphone Special Sauce #7 (If I can get one)
Some Octoberfest Beers
Maybe a BCBS if we are not too shitfaced

 

I've got:

Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
Bell's Octoberfest
Bell's Special Double Cream Stout
Ayinger Celebrator Dopplebock (starting up with the German beers for Autumn 2016)
Big Timber IPA (West Virginia local beer for the WVU Missouri game tomorrow)
Great Lakes Nosferatu

also leftovers from last week:

Fat Head's Trail Hunter Pale Ale
Jackie O's Ohio Pale Ale
3 Floyds Gumballhead

 

SN Oktoberfest
Firestone Union Jack
Southern Tier 2xIPA 16oz cans
Troegs Hop Knife

Lagunitas 12th of Never Ale is a great session-able (and hoppy) suggestion. Won't break the bank either.

Cheers!

 

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