Day 362 / December 28, 2011
Brauerei
Heller-Trum / Schlenkerla / Bamberg, Germany
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The Smoking Squirrel
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couple friends were kind enough to take me out Wednesday night to celebrate my
almost completed accomplishment of having a different beer every day in 2011.
As one of them said, “Hell, doing anything every day of a year is an
accomplishment!” I guess that’s true,
except for the basic life functions – eating, sleeping, breathing, bathroom
breaks…
At
the beginning of last night, I had just four beers to go! Actually, if I allowed myself to “drink
ahead”, I would have been done last night, because I had 5 different beers last
night. For that matter, I probably would
have been done some time in October, because I’m sure there’s at least 50 other
unique beers I’ve had this year that I didn’t count as the beer o’ the day.
We
met up at Smoke & Barrel, in the Adams
Morgan neighborhood of Washington DC. S&B is located on the second floor of
a retail rowhouse, long and narrow with tables in the front and the bar in the
back. They specialize in unique beers,
barbecue and small batch bourbons, and we had some of each, thank you.
My
first beer of the night (which only a four ounce sample size) was Verhaeghe Duchesse de Bourgogne (easy
for you to say), a Flanders Red Ale from Belgium. The bartender told (warned) me that it was a
bit sour, and he was right! There’s a
whole bunch of sour beers (on purpose) out there that I now really have no
inclination to try.
The
official beer of the day was Aecht Schenkerla Marzen, a rauchbier (smoked beer)
from Bamberg,
Germany. And it was smokey! It did complement the barbecue pretty well,
but it was definitely a one and done beer for me.
Other
beers for the evening, between Smoke & Barrel and the nearby Black Squirrel Tavern, included an Oskar Blues Little Yella Pils, Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale
and Short’s Brewery Bellaire
Brown (first time I’ve seen that around here).
So
thanks to my friends for a fun night out, and thanks to all of you have
supported my quest this year, either though comments on the site or to me in
person, donations of beer, or ribbing me about the 50 pounds!
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