new belgium le terroir 2014 is the finest beer i've had this year. i could drink it all day.
that said, that's bound to change today as i have a 11am date with hardliver fest and then a bottle share at 3pm where i'm told "whales" will be present.
if i don't make it out alive today, hutch can have my record collection and yada can have my beer cellar.
Are you still alive?
i chose to live and skipped the bottleshare. if i could do it over again, i probably would have skipped hard liver and only gone to the bottle share. i ordered nine 3 oz barleywines by about 1230 along with lunch, and had about enough calories in a 1.5 hour period for the entire weekend.
le terroir was still the best thing i drank all weekend. sucaba, arctic devil, and angels share are all near perfect barleywines and it's hard to pick which is the best. i focused on most of the local breweries: fremont, E9, old schoolhouse, anacortes, silver city, and reubens. fremont's brew 1000 was probably the best of the bunch, followed by a weird "barleywine" by E9 that was barrel-aged and had some funk to it.
