dang...wasn't quick enough
soo barren here I look forward to reading dots now
here's a beer story for ya:
last week my local homebrewers' club had their christmas party, including a secret santa/white elephant exchange. folks were to bring a desirable bottle from their cellar. observations from a bunch of beer nerds coveting bottles and repeatedly stealing them from each other:
- most stolen (AKA most desired) bottle: barrel aged rasputin. it's a good beer but given how widely available it is, i found the fuss over this bottle surprising. in second place was a bottle of flanders red from a recently-closed local brewery.
- most undervalued bottle: calvados-barrel aged gulden draak. stolen only once.
- most over-valued bottle: anderson valley BBA'ed stout. it's an insipid beer that is widely available... both the person who brought it and the person who ended up with it fell in my estimation.
- most interesting bottle: a brett'ed barrel-aged cider. it was the only homebrew on offer as gifter didn't realize we were supposed to bring commercial bottles. he brought a second one to share, after tasting it i would have considered stealing it.
- best score, IMO: the bruery cuivre, which i ended up with. i was very late in the picking/pecking order and clutched that bottle tightly as the last few folks picked/stole their bottles.
the party was on a heated patio of a condo with nice views. so much good beer and mead on offer. when we got kicked off the patio we went to our host's condo, where he put on some Throbbing Gristle (not exactly party music IMO) and got all emotional about a 10-year old homebrewed barleywine he shared with us... ahh, alcohol... good times.
