Friday evening we spent the evening tasting Buckeye Brewing’s Real ales out on the east side. Was a great time and I ran into the SNOBS. I forgot how much I enjoy tasting real ales–beer that is fermented but not really carbonated. Pulled right from the keg with gravity or a pump, not a tap or with CO2.

Saturday we hosted our first ever Belgian Biere Tasting. 38 bottles, 750mL each=28,500 mL. Plus 2 6 packs! We had a great turnout, about 25 people. Everyone brought fantastic brews for everyone to taste. Some of the more memorable ones were an 8year old bottle of Unibroue Terrible 10, New Glarious Kriek, Rodenbach Flemish Sour Ale. Thanks to all that showed up and brought something. This is an ongoing event. I think next we will do specific breweries, or pick one style. Belgians are all over the place and after a while it seemed I was drinking so many flavors that they started to meld. I think the best part of the evening was when Ed staggered into the kitchen and began to speak. He spoke in tongues and we had no idea what he was trying to say, but it seemed extremely important to him. He was still in the ‘hurt’ locker on Monday. Poor guy. I added pics from this weekend. There is a picture of Barley getting a 2 lbs marrow bone for his 6 month old birthday on Saturday.