drink 43 different beers

Too funny that I just achieved this goal and the next night my friend Braveheart had this one for me to sample. It was really good! Such a light hint of Orange!

We pass this brewery every few months on our way to the Owens Valley.

I used to work in a coffee house that served beer and wine. We specialized in imported beers when that was a big deal in the early eighties.

We used to make up a six pack of six different imported beers and take them to our friends Bonnie & John’s house and we’d have a tasting amongst the four of us and play Trivial Pursuit. How eighties can you get? (I wore a leotard and a wrap around Indian skirt, too…sheesh.)

I like dark beers and pale ales. A black and tan makes my night.

Can I name them all?

1) Hannen Alt (only in Germany, sigh)
2) Pilsner Urquel
3) Mississippi Mud
4) Chimay Trappiste Ale
5) Falstaff (local N. Indiana brew)
5) Mojave Red
6) St. Pauli Girl
7) Whitbread
8) Sam Adams
9) Budweiser
10) Miller Genuine Draft
11) Coors
12) Olympia
13) Heineken
14) Fat Weasel
15) Shiner Bock (recently in Texas for the first time)
16) Hamm’s
17) Pabst Blue Ribbon
18) Stroh’s
19) Dos Equis
20) Tecate (first time with lime)
21) Bass Ale
22) Guinness Stout
23) Corona
24) Beck’s
25) Foster’s Lager
26) Moosehead
27) Labatt’s (skunky and wonderful…wow, it’s been years and I need another taste!)
28) Pete’s Wicked Ale
29) Amstel
30) Molson’s
31) Asahi
32) Kirin
33) Carlsburg (oh, the Carlsburg salesman who used to come to the sports bar I worked in was so…NORDIC and fabulous!)
34) Grolsch
35) McEwan’s (oh yum)
36) Tsing Tau
37) Watney’s
38) Wurtzberger Haufbrau
39) Fischer Labelle
40) Killian’s Red
41) Newcastle Brown Ale
42) BJ’s Pirhana Pale Ale
43) Tatonka Stout

Apparently I could go on, since I’ve tasted varieties at BJ’s Brew Pub, etc.

This is over the past 25 years, you understand.