We spent more time drinking and watching TV than rating news beers. it was a great evening!

Got together to enjoy some of our beers.

No real order here or connection. We just open things that need to be opened and rate them. Nice evening! The Chronology Old Ale was really good. It’s about what I expected. 6 Months, very hot, boozy, no barrel. 24, raisin, fig, way too cloying sweet and a ton of wood. 12/18 were pretty close …

John comes to VT twice a year to grab his Collected Works Beers. We had a few really great items on Thursday:

Our tasting group has seen a set-back in numbers. Glad the 3 of us are still keeping this thing going!  We should talk about that Stone Porter. That’s the original 2002 batch! Clark had that one stashed away and it was delicious!

Here’s a link to the 2015 Edition of this great tasting. Exactly 2 years later, we’re back with another version of this. This time, I had stockpiled 22 magnums to open. We only got through 7 of these but we did have a lot more beer overall. It was 5 of us instead of 12 …

Chris and Michael came over to talk RateBeer, InBev and enjoy some beer!

Two Ratebeerians were passing through my area on their way home from Hill Farmstead. I got to open some beers they haven’t been able to try. It was a nice evening! 2003 Inspiration Ice Cider, amazing still too cloying to enjoy more than this much. Works of Love Sante is perfection, 2013 Port Damon, going …

We had some great beers! Got home later and had these: Overall nice weekend!