The List 2010 - Part III

Airports are stupid.

My List

Brewery List

Winners

The List 2010 - Part II

One festival day down, one to go. Rachel and I conquered the following tasty beverages last night, and will rack up a few more points with the full 10-person drinking team tonight. Current count: 120

In chronological order (yeah, that's right...I took notes!)

Dogfish Head
-Chateau Jiahu
-Grain to Glass

Hangar 24
-American IPA (dWiGhT's pro-am!)

Firehouse Brewery and Grill
-Veles Baltic Porter
-Pete's Support Belgian IPA

Firestone Walker
-Velvet Merlin
-Union Jack

Greenflash
-Palate Wrecker
-Le Freak

Rahr & Sons
-Ugly Pug
-Blonde

Yards
-George Washington Tavern Porter

Weyerbacher
-Imperial Pumpkin Ale
-Double Simcoe IPA

Troegs
-Flying Mouflan
-Hop Back Amber

New Holland
-Full Circle Kolsch

Arcadia
-Hoprocket

Flat Branch
-Green Chili
-Indigo Pale Ale

Fitger's
-Starfire Pale Ale
-Edmund Bourbon Imperial Stout

Goose Island Brewpub
-Sgt. Peppercorn
-Goose Me!

Rogue
-Old Crustacean
-MaierFest

Pike
-IPA
-Monk's Uncle Triple

Pelican
-Cream Ale
-Scottish Export

Ninkasi
-Tricerahops
-Total Domination IPA

Note: Tiara made of pretzels is cool

Elysian
-Men's Room Red
-Dark o' the Moon Pumpkin Stout

Deschutes
-Black Butte XXII
-Inversion IPA

Alaskan
-White
-Stout

Stone
-Cali-Belgique
-Russian Imperial Stout & 10th Anniv. Blen

Black Market
-Dunkelweizen
-Rye IPA

The Bruery
-7 Grain Saison
-Rugbrod

Russian River
-Pliny the Elder

Lost Abbey
-Cable Car Wild Ale
-Framboise de Amorosa

Pizza Port (Carlsbad)
-547 Haight
-Good Grief Brown

Great Divide
-Colette
-16th Anniv. Wood Aged IPA
-Wild Raspberry Ale

Redstone Meadery
-Nectar of the Hops
-Raspberry Nectar
-Sunshine Nectar (apricot)
[Note: all "Nectars" are same base mead with different secondary additions]

Brooklyn Brewing
-Sorachi Ace
-Local 1
-Local 2
-Manhattan Project
-Black Chocolate Stout

CH Evans / Albany Pumphouse
-Kick-ass Brown

Odell's
-Deconstruction
-Myrcenary

Left Hand
-Milk Stout
-Oktoberfest

Cascade
-Bourbonic Plague

Elysian (again)
-Wise ESB
-Jasmine IPA

3 Floyds
-Sandpebble
-Schwartzbier

Square One
-Bavarian Weizen
-Spicy Blonde

August Schell
-Firebrick
-Hopfenmalz

Bell's
-Porter
-Contrebassite

Boulevard
-Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale
-Unfiltered Wheat

Great Lakes
-Commodore Perry IPA
-Glockenspiel Weizenbock

Fat Head's
-Hop JuJu
-KoKo Head Chocolate Coconut Cream Stout

Thomas Creek
-Vanilla Cream Ale
-Up the Creek Extreme IPA

Terrapin
-Hopsecutioner
-Hopzilla

Sweetwater
-420
-Sch'wheat!

Asher
-Green Monster

Avery
-The Maharaja

Wynkoop
-WIXA Weiss
-B3K Schwartzbier
-St Charles ESB

The List 2010 - Part I

Back in Colorado for the Great American Beer Festival. Day one was spent in Boulder. We ended up at Mountain Sun for lunch and then off to the Avery taproom. From there we picked up some bottles for a small party later in the evening and stopped off at Boulder Beer for a quick sample or two.

Now we just have to figure out how to get to Denver for the opening session at GABF tonight.

Draft...

Mountain Sun
-Hop Vivant (2009 Alpha King winner...delicious)
-Resinous Rye (good...had better versions of the style)

Avery
-Joe's Pilsner (great!)
-Jerry's Roggenbier (nice chocolatey rye)
-India Pale Lager
-IPA w/ Chinook dry hop
-Altar Boy (The Reverend, oak aged and dosed with Brett....excellent)
-The Maharaja (cask...excellent)
-Seventeen Anniversary (hoppy black lager)
-Out of Bounds Stout (cask)
-Missionary (Belgian quad with guava)
-Voltron (sour blend...good but Altar Boy was better)
-duganA IPA

Boulder Beer
-Singletrack Copper Ale (very nice)
-Bourbon Singletrack (nowhere near as good as the straight version)
-India Brown Ale (cask...too much oak)
-Mojo Risin' (DIPA on nitro, nice)

Bottles...

Ska Brewing
-Ten Pin Porter (tasty)
-True Blonde Ale (my last of the night...good, not one of my usual go-to styles)
-Pinstripe Red (great)

Left Hand
-Black Jack Porter (excellent)
-Polestar Pils (very nice)

Great Divide
-Titan IPA (excellent)
-Claymore Scotch Ale (excellent)
-Samurai Rice Ale (only had a drop but Rachel liked it)

Boulder Beer
-Hazed and Infused

The List

We're back from the Great American Beer Festival. There are a few that I tasted that didn't make the list since this was put together during the recovery hours. I've included the state, a better style description, and any medals. Italics means I had it at the brewery. This is only around 5% of what was available. But hey, it was my first try.

My updated list

List of participating breweries
List of all medalists