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22 dead soldiers

Rob for a couple of weeks talked about getting some people together for a beer tasting at his house.  He would invite a few people and everyone was responsible for bring a six pack or two of something you have never tried.  Well Nancy and I were certainly in for that.  We managed to convince Matt to come along which added to the fun.  We were all at Sweet Water after Ellie’s birthday party at Wolf Trap discussing our engagement party and talked about the beer tasting.  Matt was in but only if we picked him up so he wouldn’t have to drive.  A small price to pay to get him to come along.

We arrived at Rob’s house a little late, but we certainly were not the latest to arrive.  We eventually gave up waiting for everyone else to arrive and started the tasting about 6 o’clock.  Rob printed out tasting forms from the Sam Adams web page which was really cool.  Because of the number of beers most of us just graded on a scale from 1-5 for each of the different categories.  Two hours later we finished sampling all 22 beers.  We tasted beers from Germany, Belgium, the left coast, East coast and one from Virginia.  The styles ranged from ales to pale ale, several stouts (chocolate was popular), weissbier, even a raspberry sparkling champagne beer that was pretty good.  A very sweet beer, not something I could drink a lot of, but definitely tasty.

We hung out for another hour and bounced around 9.  I had a small buzz from all the samplings and a few extra tastes of the really good ones.  I could have spent hours talking with the guys outside, but Matt and Nancy were ready to head out.  We brought three six packs and walked out with two, not a bad deal if you ask me.  Being early and still having plenty of beer we headed back to Matt’s house were my Dad and Pat were just cleaning up after a late dinner on the deck.  We processed to spend the next four hours with them drinking more and have a great time relaxing on the desk.  We burned through three of the four touches we were out there so long.  Eventually everyone called it quits around 2am, well past everyone’s bed time.  What a kick ass beer tasting, Rob is already talking about doing it again and we can’t wait till he hosts another one.

Beer Tasting