New Year's Eve beers

Had a Tuscan red with dinner, but went to the pub afterwards.

Started there with Flying Dog Gonzo Porter on tap.

Then, we shared a 750ml bottle of De Proef's Zoetzuur.

Toasted the New Year with Liefmans Goudenband, also on tap.

It's been a good beer-drinking week. Looking forward to lots more in 2006.

Bink blonde, Thiriez XXtra dry-hopped farmhouse ale, and Left Hand Brewing's 10th Anniversary Imperial Stout.

Weyerbacher Heresy, Bigfoot 2001, Thomas Hardy 2004 and a few nips of Elijah Craig 18, 2005 Sazerac, and 2005 Eagle Rare 17.

eugene

I had much less than I had planned on. A sip of Utopias, 2 bottles of SNCA, and a bottle of Thirsty Dog Siberian Night IS.

Tom Wolper wrote: : I started with draft Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout and Stoudt's Winter Ale. I : came home and opened a Gouden Carolus Noel. : : What did you drink?

New Years' Day:

Samichlaus vertical ('03, '02, '01) -- liked the '02 best -- crisper than the '01, the '03 is way sweet.

North Coast Milennium Old Rasputin

Assorted homebrews.

was in hamburg and stopped at schiphol on the way and picked up some texel's tripel and orval and karmeliet tripel and was right impressed at how spicy satisfying the karmeliet tripel was even though the native jever pilsner is twelve shades of amazing and the maisels weisse is pretty pretty to boot

orval is still wild yeast heaven, no matter what the configuration

Tom Wolper eats posts like this for lunch news:DIJtf.653$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net:

Had an '03 World Wide Stout at the crack of midnight. Yum.

Growler of Old Horizontal. It has a special flavor fresh. We all know it develops an even more special flavor with age, but I enjoyed the growler.