The latest beer session

I got together with carl and Scott last Sunday to drink beer -- our first session of the year. We actually started off at the Big Time brewpub, where Scott finally got to taste the Saison Grisette, which is a very good saison that I've been drinking a lot of lately. Because of that I actually opted for the cask-conditioned Dark Days Black IPA, which had been dry-hopped with, IIRC, Amarillo hops. (Scott, carl, and I agreed in our conversation at the Big Time that beer geeks are people who know the names of hops. I'm getting there!) The Dark Days is extremely hoppy to begin with, so the dry-hopped version was goddamn hoppy. After that carl switched to the Golden's Tate Maple Nut Brown, while Scott and I had snifters of the Old Wooley Barleywine. I was surprised that the barleywine was still on tap, but the bartender told me that business in general has been down this year. I've been doing my best, but apparently it isn't enough.

After that pre-session, we headed to my place and cracked open some bottles. Here's a picture of the lineup. Click once to get a bigger version, and click again for the hellanormous version.



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