Coming soon...

Dan and I will be taking a trip on the 21st to the Outer Banks in North Carolina for a week with a group of friends. In order to make this a more memorable experience for us, we stopped by State Line Liquors tonight in Elkton, MD to pick up beer for the trip. A whopping $240.12 later, we have quite the list of beers to try out.

I'm particularly excited about the Trappist Ales we got while we were there. For those of you who don't know, a Trappist Ale is a beer that is produced by or under the supervision of the monks at a trappist abbey. In addition, the proceeds from sale of the beer must be used towards assistance in the monastic community (for example, the money can be used to support orphans or widows). We picked up 4 of the 6 Belgian trappist brands for this trip. Achel, Westmalle, Orval, and Rochefort. We almsot picked up a 5th, Chimay, but since we've already tried it numerous times and didn't need to spend any more money, we gave it a pass for this trip.

The list of beers we have to review are:

Grolsch
Pilsner Urquell
Brooklyn Brown Ale
De Koninck
Pauwel Kwak
Theakston's Old Peculier
Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter
Duvel
Achel Bruin
Orval
Rochefort 8
Westmalle Dubbel
Leffe Blond
Murphy's Irish Red
Warsteiner Dunkel
Czechvar (formerly Budweiser Budvar)
Weihenstephan Oktoberfest
Dogfishhead Punkin Ale
Ommegang Ommegeddon

That's 19 beers over a 6 day period. It's gonna be a good week.