A MONTH OF BEER

Well, well, well! I have returned from the lazy vacation vortex known as "The Cottage".  Of course, stated cottage includes lots of beer/rocking chairs/lake.  It always has, always will.  We dranks lots o' beers (probably too much), including a tasting.

The tasting was interesting, I MC'd as I usually do at these Lamanna beer tastings.  I threw in a couple wrinkles as we went from (an excess of craft) lagers to ales; the wrinkles were Labatt Blue Light and a Bud Light Platinum interspersed throughout.  This was a blind taste test by the way, and it was really interesting to see how some beers were rated.  For example, for many rounds, Magic Hat's Demo Black IPA was the leader, PBR and Sam Adams  Long Shot Derf's Alt  (9% abv?) were the bottom dwellers (That's right, Blue Light and Platinum weren't there with them).  Anderson Valley Hoppin Ottin IPA is a GREAT IPA (the number 3 bottom dweller) and was the best beer we had.  My brother-in-law and I actually did a side-by-side tasting of Hop Ottin and Union Jack the next day and we both agreed, "RAD DUDE THEY'RE BOTH LIKE AS GOOD AS EACH OTHER YO MAN WOO!".

In the end, Dogfish Head's 75 Minute IPA aged with maple syrup won.  It was delicious.

On the topic of top notch IPAs, Troegs Perpetual IPA is also up there in the Union Jack/Hop Ottin category as well.  I recommend trying those immediately!