Tasting- An evening of Darkness

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:27 pm

Evil is lurking in my closet, and it needs to be unleashed. The evil I speak of is beer. Stouts to be exact.

I will be hosting a tasting on November the 11th. It is a saturday.

There will be many stouts on hand. Mostly imperial, and mostly top rated stouts.

ALl are welcome, and can stay over if necessary.

If you are interested in this, and are willing to come to London, then message me privately, and I can start to put things together.

Thank you

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:03 pm

Sounds good... I've certainly got a few stouts on hand!

mds · Post by **mds** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:56 pm

I should be able to make it and I have a couple of dark beers from Ølfabrikken that I can bring.

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:43 pm

what about a sunday aft session for Belgiums? I am Ohio until Saturday night. I can also offer lifts both or either way from the subway

DougShoemaker · Post by **DougShoemaker** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:16 am

I will try my best to make it Len. Thanks for the invitation.

Cheers, Doug

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:45 pm

northyorksammy wrote:what about a sunday aft session for Belgiums? I am Ohio until Saturday night. I can also offer lifts both or either way from the subway

In addition to the stouts the night before?

Could be interesting. :D

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:03 pm

"I should be able to make it and I have a couple of dark beers from Ølfabrikken that I can bring"

I really like their stuff and have been trying to engineer another trade before the freezing weather. WHat will it take to hold off till the Sunday session.

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:26 am

If you guys want to do two days that's great.

We could hit the ceeps too for any of you who haven't been there.

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:42 am

We could hit the ceeps too

is that the local brewpub

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:43 pm

It would certainly be classified as a brew pub, but it's not the sort of pub most of us would frequent.

The Ceeps is the old CPR hotel... one of the older buildings in London. In the 90's, Maclean (who went on to F&M) got them brewing. They wanted a cheap knock-off of Labatt Blue. I haven't had a pint in 9 years, so I can't really comment on the current quality... but back then, it was certainly a cheap knock-off of Labatt Blue!

Plenty of University & College kids during the school year. In the summer, they have a HUGE patio (Barney's), which is probably our closest thing to a beer garden.

It is pretty close to the Alex P Keaton though... and they usually have some interesting craft on tap (as good as it gets in London):
http://www.thealexpkeaton.com/beer.htm

We've also got the Marienbad/Chaucer's which has great food for a reasonable price, and a good beer menu:
http://www.londonsource.com/pdf/service ... 93beer.pdf

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:40 pm

Ok, things are looking good. I feel it is enough notice for everyone to make plans.

I have changed the beer schedule to include a whallop of Newfoundland beers as well. All are low ABV, but most of them will be new to all of you. (My dad just dropped of 2 12 packs of all different newfoundland beers to me today.

So Dark Lord will bve making an appearance, as well as barrell aged fish tale poseidon, and you can include some other top rated fruit beers as well.

But the darkness is consuming me, the Dark Lord must be released.........it is calling my name (Mike, it whispers for you too)

northyorksammy · Post by **northyorksammy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:08 pm

any screech barrel aged beers

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:21 pm

No, but I will have:

Quidi Vidi Lager
Quidi Vidi Honey
Quidi Vidi Honey Light
Quidi Eric Red Cream
QUidi Vidi Light
Storm Hemp Ale
Storm Red
Storm Island GOld
Storm Coffee Porter

and more

Len

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:40 pm

It'll be interesting to see if the Storm Porter has that Brett character again:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2595/28753

(hmmm... that rating was probably a little generous).

Can Brett survive the screech?

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:08 pm

All attendees will get a chance to sample almost every brew from storm and QV, plus some stouts!