Our “Octoberfest” weekend has come and gone for 2008. Every year it seems to be shorter; the planning for it seems to more difficult, less detailed, and yet more harried; and the drive home longer and more arduous. It’s worth it, though.
The beer list seems to get longer every year, too. And we each seem to bring more home as well.
Here’s a list of what we had this year, in no particular order (although I put the Oktoberfest/Marzen beers near the end since we used those in our “Bake-Off“). I suspect that I’m even missing a couple from this list.
- Ommegang Abbey Ale
- Southern Tier Jah*va Imperial Coffee Stout
- Sackets Harbor Brewing Company Thousand Islands Pale Ale
- Four + Brewing Punk’n Harvest Pumpkin Ale
- Erie Brewing Company Railbender Ale
- Mercury Brewing Ipswich Harvest Ale
- Guinness Stout
- Flying Dog Gonzo Imperial Porter
- Wychwood Hobgoblin
- Sherwood Forest Brewers Archer Ale
- Budweiser American Ale
- Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
- Brewer’s Alley Kölsch
- Brewer’s Alley India Pale Ale
- Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale
- Weyerbacher Heresy
- Middle Ages Brewing Company Dragonslayer
- Weyerbacher Hops Infusion
- Left Hand Milk Stout
- Wagner Valley Sled Dog
- Darwin Brewery Flag Porter
- Lagunitas Sirius
- Fort Collins Brewery Rocky Mountain IPA
- Weihenstephaner FestBier
- Stoudt’s Oktoberfest
- Saranac Octoberfest
- Samuel Adams Octoberfest
- Paulaner Oktoberfest-Marzen Amber
- Atwater Bloktoberfest
- Lancaster Oktoberfest
- Clipper City Baltomarzhon
- Brooklyn Brewery Oktoberfest
- Flying Dog Dogtoberfest
- Left Hand Brewing Marzen Lager
- Victory Festbier
In addition to all of those, I also brough a few bottles of homebrewed Dubbel (which was very good) and Strong Scottish Ale (which was so-so). There are also the samples we had at Captain Lawrence Brewing.
