59. Maudite 60. Old Thumper (USA)
61. Pale Chamberlain Ale (USA)
I figured that my trip to visit New Hampshire would give me opportunities for beer drinking. Dave brought a large bottle of Maudite. It is a 9% beer that has an image of a dwarves rowing a viking style long boat into hell. It was really good and muddy looking and went well with the burgers we grilled up. Maybe I'm getting much more used to it but I drank a higher alcohol beer and had no wobble afterwards.
Last time we were up head I had the Pumpkin beer from a local brewery called Shipyard. We went to the supermarket and grabbed a variety pack from them. I got around to drinking two of them, Old Thumper and Pale Chamberlain Ale. I was really not impressed with either one. Both were a little too bitter for my tastes. I was really hoping some something as soft and flavorful as the Pumkinhead. But alas.
58. Samuel Adams Summer Ale (USA)
We are up in New Hampshire, and one of Kelvin's neighbors is moving. So a bunch of them are drinking on the outside lawn of their housing complex. We had some Sam Adams, I had a Summer Ale it was too lemony. I'm hoping to try some of the strong beer that Dave brought up, and perhaps we'll pick up some local beer in the morning.
57. Modelo Especial (Mexico)
56. Samuel Adams Brown Ale (USA)
I'm in the middle of my fantasy draft and I'm enjoying a Sam Adams Brown Ale. It had a really good wood color. Like liquid bark. My posting when I am in the process of drinking are a little different than my memory posts.
Anyway. Good beer. And I took Peyton Manning with the 5th overall pick.
54. Samuel Adams Boston Ale (USA)
55. Lakeport Honey Lager (Canada)
20 years ago a collection of 25 brave men brought glory to the city and on Saturday August 19th they were honored by those who saw it, those who kind of remember it, and those who missed it all together. That's right the Mets honored the 1986 championship team at Shea, and what better way to honor a great hard working/hard playing team than toasting them with a beer. But this was a pretty rowdy bunch, they got a two beer toast from someone who was too young to fully enjoy it the first time around.
The first beer I had was a a Sam Adams Boston Ale, very appropriate considering the victims of the 1986 world championship the Boston Red Sox. Its a good solid beer, it has a nice taste not to heavy. Its not a Keith Hernandez or Gary Carter of beers but it solidly a Tim Tueful. Solid, gets the job done, nothing too fancy.
The second beer I had was the last Canadian can I had in the fridge, it is called Lakeport Honey Lager. I was really disappointed in it, I would really like to taste a twinge of honey in these so-called honey lagers. So in the terms of the Mets its like a Kevin Elster or Dave Magadan, its not getting into the line up, but in a pinch its there but not something you'd depend on.
52. Red Stripe (Jamaica)
53. Bavaria (Holland)
Rarely have beers that have funny commercials and are well known to college kids any good. They are usually cheap, readily available and very generic. But Red Stripe is so the exception. When I bought a six pack of the cute little fat bottles for Mike's birthday I had no idea how good they were going to be.
The beer had really good flavor, but not an overwhelming non-beer taste. All I can say is Hooray Beer!
I also brought some Bavaria beer over. It was very plain and uninspiring, and despite not feeling it. It leveled the playing field while we played Trivial Pursuit. I can only see the reason to drink this beer is that is it cheap.
51. Kronenbourg 1664 (France)
Can't the French do anything right? One of the beers I got in Canada was a French beer with a very German name (Kronenbourg) and very British packaging. It is really too bad they didn't go with the taste of German of British beer. Wow this is awful beer. It is the fourth beer I drank that came out of a can, but it is the only one that tasted like I was chewing tin foil.
When I told people about this horrid beer, they mentioned cheese, snootiness, and toast as things the French do well. Beer brewing is not one of their specialties.
48. St. Paulie Girl (USA)
49. Pumpkinhead Ale (USA)
50. Heineken Light (Holland)
We visited our friends Mark and Becky up in Maine to celebrate Mark's successful return from his overseas deployment. I brought up a six pack of St. Paulie Girl, who can't trust big busted beer maiden to serve you a delicious beer. You would never buy a beer whose logo was a flat chested woman. But I digress.
After we arrive in Maine, Mark, Kelvin, one of Mark's college friends Elizabeth and I drove over to the supermarket. We picked up some national beers like Heineken Light, Guinness, Miller Light, and Bud Light along with some malt style drinks (Twisted Tea - Smirnoff coolers). We also got a local beer called Pumpkinhead ale. Grabbed some ice and headed back, we filled up the cooler with the beers and soda, ice and then stated pouring in salted water. Within a few minutes we had ice cold brews. A side note the next morning we still had ice cold drinks and ice floating in the cooler.
Yes the bottles were a little salty, but we had a rag to wipe them down so no worries. The first beer I drank as St. Paulie Girl, it was a nice hearty beer. But it went down really smooth. I am glad I went for this one first, since all six were quickly gone from the cooler.
We ate and then I had a Pumkinhead Ale. Wow was this beer the surprise hit of the party. For starters when you smelled this almost orange colored beer, it had the distinct smell of pumpkin spices. It was like a pumpkin pie. It was awesome. The beer itself was unremarkable (though good) but the aroma was so great. Unlike other beers that have had strong other smells this one is not something that I could see people getting sick of. Perhaps when I go up to New Hampshire in a few weeks, I'll pick some of these up for Thanksgiving.
A little later, I reached a milestone and hit the halfway point in my journey. I drank beer number 50, Heineken Light. I really like Heineken, but Heineken light is so tasteless. Dave once told me about a place where they track the beers that you drink, and its tradition to have a loser at your milestones. Well mission accomplished.
There were never any of the beers I hadn't drunk cold at a time when I wanted a beer, so I didn't drink anymore while I was up there. I would have loved a Bud Light at 7am. But alas.
