365 Days of Beer

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Well Cracka is heading to the west coast, so this weekend we held a little farewell dinner and drinking thing to send him off on his merry way.

This weekend was also a good one to be a Mets fan, watching them drub the Diamondbacks. The Braves are way back now, and I don't know if they have what it takes to catch the Mets this year.

My new policy, which I will try to uphold, is to get a picture of every new beer I try. Since I didn't have the camera at Cracka's farewell bash, I just drank stuff I already had before.

Here's one from the past that I didn't get a picture of last time. It is the River Horse Hop Hazard Pale Ale, and it was beer #149 on the year.


#149

Now this weekend due to a lack of funds mainly, I decided to work over some of the bottles I have in the fridge.

First one up was:

174) Hair of the Dog Rose - This Belgian inspired brew comes to us all the way from Portland, Oregon. Hair of the Dog is a highly regarded microbrewer and this is the first beer I've been able to try from them. This is in the tripel style. You can see that this beer has a thick, apple cider-like appearance. It's cloudy and opaque. Rather sweet with a cotton candy finish. Overall I liked it but I have had better in the style.


Hair of the Dog Rose

175) Heavyweight Stickenjab Alt Bier - Beer #175 comes to us from New Jersey. This is an altbier and only the 2nd one that I've had. I'd like to have a few from Germany but I will say I rather enjoyed this. It had a sweet caramel aroma and better depth of flavor than the Tuckerman I had a while back.


Heavyweight Stickenjab

Yesterday I stopped at another supermarket close to my house, but in the Russian section. I bought 9 new bottles of assorted Russian, Ukranian, and Czech beers. Expect to see a little glasnost spirit on toomuchbeer.com for the next week.

I opened one of them with dinner last night.

176) Ochakovo Zhigulevskoe - Apparently a "zhigulevskoe" is a style of Russian lager. Pours a pale gold with a fluffy head that dissipates quickly. Taste and aroma is that of sweet corn. Finish was... buttery?


Vodka this ain't.

No beer for me today, as its a gym day, but I will have more Russian beer for you this week.

Here are the stats:
176 new beers down and 189 to go.