Beer Club Meeting: Festival of Lights and Darks

Theme: Festival of Lights and Darks
Date: January, 29th, 2009
Host: Brewtus
Special Notes: Congrats to Ariel for finishing her Med School Boards the day of the meeting! We had a special test on the health effects of alcohol in her honor - who was the Beer Boards winner, again? - obviously not the secretary .
Majority Whip: First Lady of Beer Club
Secretary: Christout
Line-up: Brewtus and King of Beers(club)

Rules Created:
1)No judgement before tasting
2)Ebert control of categories for rating "For a Pilsner, this is..."
3)Rotating person to take secretary and majority whips duties each meeting
4) 1 pourer per beer in order to control equal distribution
5) The club is closed to membership. The host may invite a guest, but, unfortunately, we do not have room for additional full time members. We encourage those who are interested to start a beta chapter.

Future Theme Suggestions:
Girls vs. Boys
Beer, bourbon, and bonfire
Cans & Camping
Extreme
Colorado
Islands
South East Asia
India Night - food and IPA's
Barley wine
Creative Loafing beer blogger as guest lecturer
Belgian
barrel aged/oak oaged

Quotes:
"You were at the DeKalb Farmers Market, weren't you? I can smell it on you"

"I don't know you without a mustache, and I hope I never do"
"Every day it looks better"

"This is chocolate stout cake"

Beer Tasting and Rating:
1) Brooklyn Brewery Pilsner, NY
Golden, crisp, clean, refreshing, clean finish, good mouth feel compared to mist Pilsners
"I could bong this"
5

2) Three Floyds Black Sun Stout, IN
Oil slick, doesn't finish, let down, medicinal, sour aftertaste
-5

3) Blanche De Chambly, Montreal
Grapefruit, good starter beer, like apple juice, kindergarten, citrus, Belgium style bubbles, delightful bubbles, miller high life but fancy
8

4) Allagash black Belgium Style Stout, Maine
surprising, goes well with baklava, surprisingly Middle Eastern
11

5) Kentucky Light
Good for a light beer
1

6) Rogue Shakespeare Stout
Gym shorts, funk, little decay
4

7)Rogue Chocolate Stout
intense chocolate, crazy chololate, chocolate milkshake, hershey chocolate, not a high quality chocolate bar
5

8) Staropramen, Prague
metallic finish, same old Czech, grape candy- hint of artificial grape flavor, pleasant kick, nose wrinkled, , floral
-2

9) Flossmoor Station Brown Ale, IL
complex, sweet, molasses, needs contemplation, upper 80% for a brown ale
1

10) Duck Rabbit Milk Stout
creamy, cheesey, balance b/w sweet & sour, chewy, not a vegan beer
9

11) Bud Light Lime
water with lemon, cirtrus oil bathroom cleaner, lemon time dish detergent, sprite in my car for 2 years
-2

10) Miller High Life
No rating. Just drink

11) Yuengling Black and Tan, Pottsville, PA
Porter and premium, flat, normal, no 2 tastes
0

12) Terrapin"Dos Cocos" Chocolate Porter, Side Project, Vol. 4
smells like body rot, starts strong, doesn't finish
-1

13) Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter
most complex, damn good
15

14) Redhook Double Black Coffe Stout
Nice finish
8

15) Busch
Yes, we decided to drink it. 32 oz of light golden beer - sort of beer

16) Stone Russian Imperial Stout
Dope
11

17) Avery Czar, Imperial Stout
Very different


Closing Notes:
Obviously, we were pretty done tasting and describing by the end. It was too many beers to give fair scoring and description at the end. It was suggested that we bring less kinds of beer, but more of each for larger servings in the future.
Taking a cab from EAV to Decatur worked out aight!
Thanks to the host for preparing pizzas, Kwaktastic for the stout cake, and Brennanttanomyces bruxellensis for the Turkish baklava.

Next meeting: February 19th, at Christout's
Theme: Pairings: Your Perfect Pair