Comments on: Cleaning Out Jay’s Fridge

By: Mario (Brewed For Thought)

Mario (Brewed For Thought) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:38:39 +0000

And I did not take copious notes. I have a Bill brand inspired note pad, but I only wrote down the names of each beer and poor notes on the ones that struck me as special. Hell, I didn’t even have a note written for the West 8 and 12, except the “yuck” someone wrote on my pad after I drunkenly left it at the table.

By: Beer & Nosh » Blog Archive » Want Some Homebrew?

Beer & Nosh » Blog Archive » Want Some Homebrew? — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:16:08 +0000

[...] of PFIFF! will be contributing as well, and if they’re anything like the homebrew of his I tasted this past weekend, Bi-Rite better be kicking in some big blue cheeses to stand up to this abuse. The event is open [...]

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:53:35 +0000

@Mario – But you’re in the video toast!

By: Mario (Brewed For Thought)

Mario (Brewed For Thought) — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:47:55 +0000

I feel left out. the picture of “The Crew” must have taken place after I left.

I left at the 35 beer mark or so and seeing that The Abyss and Jewbelation 12 made their way to the table after that make me sad.

Oh, and that dump bucket was pretty gross. I tossed it the first time through and it wasn’t pleasant.

Nice pictures, much better than the crap I put on my page. Then again, I use a pocket sized point and shoot.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:57:10 +0000

In this case, there was a lot of wild variation on the quality of the beer. When a beer was worth pausing over, everyone did. When the Westys came out, everything came to a pause to enjoy. But remember, the goals of the day were to taste, but also to clean out the space. We tried to balance both.

But I agree – my taste buds burned out after a while, and the more nuanced beers were harder to taste, especially since there was no style progression.

By: Mike W

Mike W — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:52:47 +0000

So Jealous!

I’m no stranger to multiple beer sampling, but would find large volumes of beer sampling kind of frustrating. I would want to “TASTE” every beer, but after about 14+beer samples my taste buds would start getting burned out and I wouldn’t be TASTING anything accurately. At that point, I would get frustrated and try to tell people to STOP opening new bottles because no one was going to appreciate those beers real nuances. Of course, as my friends know, we ALL went WAY over board with multiple samples, more often than not….. ;-}

I regret that more NOW, than I did then…. :-(

Sean will remember how anal I used to be with tastings….. Making sure we started with the lightest in palate and building up to the big rich and exotic. I guess, I didn’t want to ruin anyone’s palate….. ;-}

Maybe I’m just getting old….?

Still would have loved to been there… :-O