Mother's Imperial Three Blind Mice & Trouble Maker

The Imperial next to the original.

Still working on clearing out my backlog of beers and one such beer was Mother's Imperial Three Blind Mice. Their regular Three Blind Mice is one of my favorites and I was excited to hear they were coming out with an Imperial of it. Needless to say, once I finally had a chance to try one, it was worth the wait.

Father's Day Beer Sampling

Father's day was a few weekends, but we celebrated it the week prior with a small family get-together and BBQ. While the kids were running around in the living room, the "men folk" sneaked into the dining room with 6 different beers for a round of beer shots. Most of them were pleasant, some were different and a couple were just bad.

Playing Catch-up

Wow, I really managed to get behind in my blogging. In my last post, I mentioned a beer that was extremely hoppy, but never got to it. Well, it's time for a very quick catch-up so here we go.

The beer in question is Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum. The hops is extremely high (hence the comment about it blowing my brains out). However, it was also thoroughly enjoyable. It tasted like fresh cut grass and pine needles, which is a good thing. On top of that, it went down nicely with a very pleasing aftertaste considering how much hops was in it. I have another bottle in the fridge now, but I'm saving it for later along with my last Winter Grind. If you like Hops, this is most definitely the beer for you to try.

Other beers that I've been drinking recently came from a Boulevard Sampler and a Schlafly Sampler. Both boxes have been great and I have not yet found one I didn't like from these two. I guess I don't have much to say about each individual beer since it's been a while other than it's good stuff.

On my birthday a few weeks ago, I picked up a "special" bottle for myself. It was Lagunita's Wilco Tango Foxtrot. It was a darker brown ale with a nice chocolate tone. I wouldn't call it amazing, but it was still a good brown ale. A good beer for a quick grab from the market and one I might consider grabbing again.

Well, that's a VERY quick recap of what I've been drinking here recently. Last weekend we had our Father's Day celebration with a custom 6-pack sample party. They went from very good to very bad, but I'll get to those later. I also have another selection in the fridge at home awaiting me so stick around. Hopefully it won't be as long next time...

2 Big Boys - Great Divide and Deschutes

While moving back into the house, my brother-in-law and I stopped by Macadoodles while picking up lunch and grabbed a few smokestack bottles to split. We only got the chance to open one of them that day and I had the other sometime later, but both of these beers were excellent and hit the spot.

Custom 6-Pack Part 2 - Free State, Tsingtao and Tommyknocker

And now, the rest of the story. In my last post, I cut it short due to being in the middle of a move. So, without further ado, here are the rest of the bottles, plus a few extra.

The Theory of Intelligence

Custom 6-Pack - Warsteiner, Mothers, O'Fallon, Southern Tier

The first 4 bottles.

We've been in the process of moving back to our rebuilt house just shy of the 1 year anniversary of the May 22, 2011 Tornado, so things have been a little hectic to say the least. This is a "part 1 of 2" post for the first few bottles I had from my most recent custom 6-pack. As of right now, it's been almost two weeks since I've drank these, so my memory of them isn't the best. In fact, if I hadn't taken a photo of the bottles, I wouldn't even remember what they were... But lets try do get these taken care of and I'll go over the rest of them, including my second dumped bottle, soon.