Tuesday, April 15, 2008

WTF?

Today was the first day of the World Beer Cup and the best word to describe it was...Cornucopia! There were so many beers it was amazing. There were 6 rounds with many beers in each round. The amazing thing was the beers that did not get passed on got sent to the sample table...THE SAMPLE TABLE! So Amazing!I got to sample so many beers I can not remember all of them but here is a sample:
Terrapin Rye Pale aAle
Il Vicino Baltic Porter
Rouge Old Crustecean
Ommegang Chocolate Del...
Ommegang Rare Vos
Ommegang Wit
Moylans Double IPA
Moylans Hopsickle
Dogfish head 60' IPA
Many Pizza Port
Pizza Port Imperial Red
Pizza Port Shark Attack
Lost Abbey 10 Commandments
Odells Red Ale
Odells Pils
(Japanese) coconut porter
Maui Coconut Porter
Many fruit beers
Unibroue apple
Unibroue strong ale
New Belgium La Folie
Many Flanders Reds
Rogue Chiptole Ale
Rogue Chocolate Stout
Rogue Hazel Nut Brown Nectar
Rogue Morimoto Black Obi Soba Ale
Rogue Moritmoto Soba AleYes, Yes, Yes I at some point had palet fatigue, but I can not tell you when that was. Most beers were very delicious and would purchase many of them down the road.I got to steward the table that had: other Belgian beers, strong ales, english esb's

I got to take home: Le Proef Boruweru La Grande Blanche, Howesound Brewing Nut Brown Ale, Rogue Old Crustacean 2006, Rogue Imperial Red Ale

What does tomorrow bring???

1 comment:

The Bearded Brewer said...

How cool! What a great oportunity. I'm very jealous.