So, I haven't posted anything in the past week and a half, due to finishing up spring semester...finals and all that good stuff. However, in the interim (prior to finals) Craft Beer Week 2011 went down in good ol' Mad-town. Events ran, conveniently, April 29 - May 8th (aka, in plenty of time before my finals on the 12th and 13th of May). I managed to find time to take part in a few choice events at the Old Fashioned and Argus Bar & Grille (on Webster & Main).
The first event was a build your own 6-pack at The Old Fashioned - $12.50 for any 6 of their 112 or so bottles of Wisconsin-brewed beer. Quality deal when you compare to Riley's (pricey) or the University Ave Liquor Store (poor selection) BYO 6-Pack deals.
The second event entailed me, that same day, heading out on my bike to Argus Bar & Grille to attend Ale Asylum's tapping of their new Belgian IPA (Bedlam!) and "Beer Wars" from 8-9pm. Beer Wars essentially entailed tallying up the number of Hopalicious pints that were bought and comparing against how many pints of Bedlam! (yes, it has an ! in it's name...though I am also really excited about this beer, so it works out quite well) were bought. Bedlam! won quite handily (of course, it was it's preliminary tapping), and I won a sweet Ale Asylum shirt to boot!
The last event that I went to was another Old Fashioned, where we (Amanda, Mike, Blair, and I) signed up for their Beer Tour, where you have to drink 150 Wisconsin-brewed beers that are on their beer menu. You get a t-shirt, bragging rights, and a goblet trophy that you get to drink your final beer out of! Mike and I have a gentlemen's bet as to who will finish first.
Anywho, that was Craft Beer Week, which was awesome. I will obviously be posting about my progress through the 150 and will be clearing out my notes, which have gotten a bit backed up through finals week!
Cheers,
Hurls
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