Pleasant surprise running into stevewizzle. though he was the one doing the running.
funny, i also ran into stevewizzle! t'was at the DC Homebrewers' Club monthly meeting, so after your meetup at the PP, and we talked about the Ola Dubh he had just tried (although neither one of us were able to get the name right...). another successful meeting.
Mike the Mad Fementationist gave a talk on brewing sours. he passed around 4 brett'ed beers but i didn't get to try them as i was too far back, bottles were empty before they got to my area. i got to taste his soured dubbel aged on plums afterwards - wow. tried another more traditional, straight-up soured pale ale and a bunch of other things including a citra-hopped ESB which was interesting. even walked out with 6 pounds of crystal wheat malt thanks to a club sponsor (Briess Malting).
i left a tad early to make the HTDA show at the FSS (comments on the show in the "this week's roll call" thread). they had harpoon IPA on tap, which at best is mediocre but the keg mine came from was clearly oxidized and tasted stale. washed that down with a ruthless rye in a bottle and finished off with a flying dog belgian white (seasonal). they had other FD options as well, it varied from bar to bar. so not an amazing beer selection but there were a few options to choose from.
