Beer Club Needs You

Well folks, we just can't do this alone. Beer club is a team effort, and as a blog reader, you are part of the team. We have been stalling out lately. Yet everyone is surely aching a little bit in their hearts from a lack of regular Beer Club meetings. In fact as I sat doing something on this past Thursday I thought--wow, today is the Third Thursday and we are not doing Beer Club. Something is really wrong.

Some clubs naturally die or phase out, but I am quite confident that Beer Club is not one of them. Simply put, we are too committed. To each other. To All that is Right. To Love. To Life. To Good Beer.

And we do have some ideas. In fact today during my apartment clean up, here a number of beer club ideas I found.

Here are a few:

1. Cheese & Beer: This is not pleasing to Ariel--our resident cheese hater
2. Barrel & Oak-aged varieties: However, as Brick Store employees pointed out to us, this is really just a trend right now. But hey--we are nothing if not trend seekers.
3. BBQ & Beer: This sounds like a great idea and pretty easy to arrange. We did something like this semi-recently with a quorum of us but was unofficial. So that means we reserve the right to do it again.
4. Cans and camping: We already did this, sort of of, without the camping.
5. Imperial beers: We've long discussed this, and as good patriotic Americans, most of us really love the imperials more than anything else. But this would be hard because we'd be able to consume so very little--imperial beers are simply too high in gravity!
6. International beers: Obviously we know Mikkeller and a lot of the Belgians, but this would be a compromise between the Tet-Offensive idea and the Below the Border idea. This would give us more room for finding special international beers. Personally, I do not think this would be a good one.
7. Macro beers: Well, you can't win 'em all, and speaking of theme ideas I'm not crazy about, this one just won't go away. The King of Beers Club has long wanted to a taste testing of the macros, or "Buy what you can get as a gas station." I would have to fake sick this day.
8. Beer Prom: No idea.
9. Beer Babies: WHAT?!?! Why did I even write this one down on my scrap of paper? Is this in honor of the Founders beer with the baby on it?
   
10. Lawn games & Beer Club: This is not a theme.
    
11. Fatty night: Um...someone help me out here!
12. Five Seasons: This is an idea Sam has been long cooking up, and we will be ready to jump when she says the word. How high, Sam?
13. Japanese: A riff on some other themes. I think it would just feature Hitachino. Yawn!
14. Single Hop: Wouldn't be too vast, I think Mikkeller would be one of the only (??)
15. Restaurant Beer Club: Idea is to take over a BYOB place like Lunacy Black Market. Fun!
    
16. Beers You Crave:
    
17. Special Stash: This is a GREAT idea, whoever came up with it--we all bring someone super special and delicious. Kinda a "best of" night!
18. Non-Beer Night: We've often talked about bourbon tastings, wine tastings, etc. And taken no action.
19. Southern European/Mediterranean night: Nothing comes to mind. Blank slate!
20. Best Name: Like it sounds.
    
21. Best Looking: Like I said.
22. North Cakalacky: How could we not?
23. Pies, cakes, and beers: Yum.

Friends, those are our brainstormed ideas, generated a few beers in. Let's see where we can go from here.