Matt is a 12.5% beer made with munich and smoked malts, and aged in bourbon barrels. The one I opened is really flat unfortunately, but it is delicious. I plan to age the rest and see what happens.
Doggie Claws is a barleywine, about 11% abv. It’s usually a great beer, but I haven’t had this year’s yet.
If you get a chance to try any of the Hair of the Dog beers, I highly recommend them
Although one dig against Alan - how do you have a dock sale at your pub and NOT open the taps and let people buy beers? They don’t open until 2, I had places to be and couldn’t wait 4 hours to try peach infused Fred (although I wanted to). It made for good business at Cascade down the street though, every one in there when they opened had come from the Hair of the Dog dock sale. :)
We were still working on getting to that point, as I think I may recall. I started judging at 9am and did 3 first round flights, then went on the pub crawl. By the time you tuned in it had been a full day.
thanks guys! 5 outta 6 ain’t bad - specially when I expected exactly zero
as far as the Ceremony - yeah, similar to Jeffy - I judged 5 flights beginning at 9am (after judging 4 the night before, prior to the beer festival) before going to the pub crawl (which involved $3 pints of fresh Celebration ) so by the time the ceremony rolled around, I was done.
The important part is that Jeffy gave me the correct score on my IPA ;D
