BEER WERE IN MY MOUTH

Last night I drank a variety of beers. It was one of those nights that gets away from you. You just go somewhere and you buy something and then you buy some more stuff.

A list of the beers I consumed in chronological order:

1. (2) Brideport Hop Czar

2. (1) Southern Tier Creme Brulee Stout

3. (1) Elliott Bay Pumpkin Ale

4. (2) Victoria Cerveza w/ lime (duh).

What to make of this diverse array of beers? How to think of them all? I've worked at thinking about beer since moving to Seattle. I love it so much. I am a very analytical person and I've tried to apply those powers of analysis to beer. Because it is fun! DUH!

Well. Lets just take it from the top and start talking.

Hop Czar is a really nice beer.

I like it a lot. Really intense bitter hoppiness. I can really get into that bitterness of an IPA. I had read something about how the beer world at this point in time was really hopcentric, really into IPAs and their bitterness. As a result I've attempted to drink different types of beers, lighter beers, milder beers. But there is still something to be said about intensely hoppy beer. And Hop Czar is a good one. There is something more drinkable about it than other IPAs too. It has a nice balance between the bitterness and a clean after taste.

After that me and mghtrmndu headed out to one of our local fav pubs. Super nice staff. Great selection of beer. Something like 15 taps, which is awesome for a place that is literally a block from my apartment. There I immediately saw they had the Southern Tier creme brulee stout on tap. I was like wtf that sounds crazy. The Souther Tier chocolate ale is crazy good. I've had it several times. Tastes like Hershey syrup in a beer. The creme brulee stout, just like the chocolate ale, is served in a schooner, 10 ounces. It is an intensely flavorful beer that is also pretty alcoholic. The chocolate ale has a stronger alcoholic taste. The creme brulee stout is surprisingly mild on alcohol (at least in taste). Prominent flavors: sweetness, caramel, vanilla, and a mild but discernible smokiness. The smokiness was awesome because it reminded me of the charred surface of creme brulee. Overall a delicious beer that did not disappoint. Really did remind me of creme brulee.

Imagine a beer that tastes like this:

I don't have to. I drank it last night. Booya.

After that I decided to try the Elliott Bay pumpkin ale. Pumpkin beer is in season and I'm curious about them. This one, however, was not my favorite. It was not very aggressive on the pumpkin flavor. Rather, I tasted a lot of the spices that you associate with pumpkin pie: nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, etc.. But not a lot of pumpkin. Pumpkin spice beer is more like it.

This picture shows spices with the pumpkin. It was mostly the spices. One thing I did notice about the beer was the thickness of the lacing. When you take a sip of a beer you can look at the glass and check out the rings of foam that are left behind. Lacing, this is called. Gives you a sense of the thickness and texture of the beer. The lacing was prominent on this one. What does this mean? Who knows. But I noticed it.

Finally I decided to join my friend in his consumption of a milder, more refreshing Mexican beer: Victoria.

He has been hooked on Victoria for a little while now. Victory tavern serves them. He saw it there for the first time maybe? In any case, there is something delightful about a nice Mexican beer with lime. The lime tastes really really good. With a mere 4% alcohol content it is much lower in alcohol than some of the other brews I was sipping on (Hop Czar clocks at 7.5%, the creme brulee stout at 9.6%). It was a great way to wrap up a night of beer. A great way to enjoy myself.

I certainly did enjoy myself. The whole night was filled with good things going into my mouth (including the pea barley soup that mimi wrote about yesterday).

I also had a lot of good stuff coming out of my mouth (words not puke). We didn't stop talking for the whole 2 hours we were at the summit public house. Well done!

I often have beer in my mouth. But this is the first time I've written about it.

It is fun.

Drink and be merry bitches!