Saturday, September 12, 2009

Blog #013 - Intro to Beer Tasting

On August 28th we had our first tasting group session. I invited everyone in the Fresno/Clovis area that I have met in the past 5 years that I thought might enjoy talking and tasting.

It was a Friday night and there were 6 of us total (I think that had to do with it being about a week's notice). The layout of beers included Hen's Tooth from GreeneKing-Morland Brewing, Liberty Ale from Anchor Brewing, Freestyle Belgian Style Blonde from Black Diamond (which I can't find on BeerAdvocate), Sierra Nevada's Anniversary Ale, Lost Abbey's Carnevale Ale and an Duchy Originals English Ale from Wychwood Brewery.

Now I know that we had zero organization and the beers were not of a similar style or from a single brewery. But tonight we are going to spend some time discussing how to better organize future tastings and what the members want to achieve. I am bringing Paddy's Irish Style Red Ale from Moylan's and the next beer in the Coney Island series from Schmaltz: Human Blockhead. Thanks in advance to Zach Reinhold for offering to host tonight's mixer.