Mahon's Mash

Hello one and all! Time again for my next update on whats happening and what I've been doing. This time I'm not waiting till the end of the month to report....So lets get started.

On Feb 3rd I stopped in at the downtown BW3's to have a couple pints, while I waited for the wife to get off work. Inside I found a few friends setting up for a vintage tasting. They were nice enough to invite me to join them. It seems that they have been getting together every Feb for a number of years each contributing beers from their cellars. In this case we had 50+ beers to sample.

Here is a partial list of what we sampled

Ertvelds Wit	Kirin Hojun (5.5% )
Jindaiji (4.5%)	Solera Lager
Samuel Adams Imperial Pilsener	Lang Creek Huckleberry 'N Honey
Ebulum Elderberry Black Ale	polygamy Porter
Hightail Ale (4.5%)	Magic Hat # 9
Two Druids Gruit	Cravymuy
AB 2005 Test Beer	A&E Pale Ale
Otter Head Ale 2005	Sawtooth Ale
Scapegoat Pale Ale	Hopfen Teufel Zwei 2004
Youngwood Imperial Porter pre 2003	LaFolie 2005
Indianapolis Brewing Co Duesseldorfer Bock (pre 1990)	Pecasse Tripel 1999
Anchor Christmas Ale 2005	Chambly Noire-750ml 2005
Edition 2005	Harvey's Elizabethan Ale 1996
Harvey's Elizabethan Ale 1997	lmmmort
Maximus 2003	Samichlaus 1997
BlackWidow Oatmeal Stout	Old Stock Ale 2004
King & Barnes Christmas Ale 1997	Doggie Claws 2003
Pipkin	Carolus D'Or
Bigfoot 1999	Artevelde Grand Cru
Scaldis Noel	Avery 11 2004
Seignuriaie-750mi 2005	Old Numbskull 2002
Beast 2004	Ted Williams Eisbock 2004
JW Lees Harvest Ale 1987	Gales Prize Old Ale 1997
Fullers Vintage Ale 1999	Samichlaus 1996
Thomas Hardy's Ale 1997

As many of you may know last weekend was Lafayette Brewing Company's Winter Warmer. I'm here to tell you, that if you didn't attend this you really missed out!

Lots of heavy hitters in there. Here is the lineup.

Barley Island

Java Stout
Oatmeal Stout
Razz Stout
Bourbon Barrel aged Oatmeal Stout (a personal fav of mine)

Back Road Brewery

Hop Monster
Smoked Red Ale

Broadripple Brew Pub

Barleywine
'04 Wee Alec Scotch Ale

Brugge Brasserie

Tripel de Ripple
The Black ( an 8 malt monster fermented with belgain ale yeast)

Mad Anthony

Snowplowed Winter Ale
Weissenbock

Upland Brewing

Wheat Ale
Winter Warmer
Dragonfly IPA
Amber Ale

Oaken Barrel

'03 Barleywine
Belgian Tripel

Lafayette Brewing Company

'05 Big Boris Barleywine
Emancipator Doppelbock
Barrel Select Big Boris

Tippicanoe Homebrewers Club

Baltic Porter
Russian Impeial Stout
Tripel

Here are a few other pics that I took.

Whew! It has been a great month so far! Here are a few things that are coming up.
The Dicks Bodacious BBQ in Broadripple has a great beer tasting on Feb 18th. $15 gets you a meal and 8+ beers to sample. For you Beer Advocates and Rate Beer folks, there is another gathering at Barley Island on the 25th.

Well that is all I have for now. If anyone has anything they want to contribute to the site, just drop me a beermail! Talk to ya all later.

Mark@Indianabeer.com