Beer Bums Meeting – May 2016

Summer O’ Sours.  With more and more sour beer commonly available in the Texas market we thought it a good theme for the heat of May.  These tart and sour brews make for a refreshing beverage as the temperatures in Texas begin to soar.the new and local sour favorite Blue Owl Brewing made a big showing as did an exceedingly excellent array of guest beers.

DeStihl Counter ClockWeisse

DeStihl Here Gose Nothin

Blue Owl Brewing Spirit Animal

Blue Owl Brewing Little Boss

Blue Owl Brewing Professor Black

Sierra Nevada Otra Vez

Boulevard Tell-Tale Tart

Lindemans Gueze Cuvee Rene

Pairie Artisan Ales Prairie Somewhere

Pairie Artisan Ales Prairie Flare

Petrus Oud Bruin

Petrus Aged Red

Petrus 50 50

Next Month, June – Imperial Stouts

Beer Bums Meeting – December 2015 - Beer Bums Christmas Spectacular

The Bums Annual Holiday party!  Once again great beers, great food and great people.  A long list of excellent beers and then some.  I left early so missed out on a few big ones, but as you can see below I didn’t miss much.  There were a lot of big beers and variety this year and the (512) Brewing Wild Bear was a treat for me.  The Indra Kunindra and 24 Carrot Golden Ale taking the titles for most unique.

Lagunitas Sucks

Delirium Tremens

Bastogne Belgian Wheat

Lagunitas Equinox

Stone 24 Carrot Golden Ale

(512) Brewing Wild Bear

Alaskan Double Black IPA

Boulevard Quintaceratops

Uinta Labyrinth

Ballast Point Indra Kunindra

Next Month, January – Best of 2015

Beer Bums Meeting – December 2013 – Holiday Party!

The best Holiday Party of the season.  We always eat well and drink even better.  A large lineup of beers this year that started with two growlers of homebrews from Shawn, an IPA and a trippel and a growler of the NXNW barrel aged holiday beer.  Lots of quads and Imperial stouts with my personal favorites from the night being the Boulevard Bourbon Barrel Aged Quad and the Prairie Artisan Ales BOMB!  Too many great beers to recount in any detail so I'll let the photos do the talking.

Homebrew IPA

Homebrew Trippel 

NXNW Baha Barrel-Aged Holiday Ale

Boulevard Brewing Bourbon Barrel Quad

Troubadour Imperial Stout

Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout

St. Bernardus Christmas Ale

Ommegang Three Philosophers

Prairie Artisan Ales BOMB!

Next Month, January – Favorites of 2013

Beer Bums Meeting – Christmas 2012 Party!

The Beer Bums 3rd Annual Christmas party that was another marathon of great beers.  I took notes on the beers as we went so I wouldn’t forget what I thought about each one, but I was having trouble keeping up.  I had to leave early so this is a list of what we had while I was there.  There were many more fantastic beers to be sampled after I left. A good time as always.

Leibinger Zeppelin Bier  The warm-up beer.  A good solid German beer.

Unibroue Trois Pistoles  I have had this many times, and it was as great as ever.

Gavroche  A Biere De Garde that tasted more like an amber.  Still a good beer with good carbonation.

Rogue HazelNut Brown Nectar  Excellent.  Sweet but like a hazelnut flavored coffee.  I need to try this one again.

Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic Ale  Dark and foreboding with lots of spice.  Initially very tasty, but the spices may get overwhelming after a while.

Boulevard Smokestack Series - Harvest Dance Wheat Wine I like this one a lot.  Sweet with the taste of apricots.

New Belgium Lips of Faith - Biere de Garde  It took me a while to figure out what I was tasting in this one.  It was orange.  A tasty tasty orange.

Avery Hog Heaven A dry-hopped barley wine.  Exciting and tasty, although a bit young for a barley wine.  I need to try it again.

Ommegang Goudenhop  I must have had a few by this point, because I thought this was Ommegang’s version of Duvel, but I was totally wrong.  I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t taste at all like Duvel.... because I’m an idiot.

Adelbert’s Tripel B (Bad Boy Brew)  OK, I don’t even remember this one.  Maybe someone else took the picture with my camera? hmmm