Repeal Day!!

Shawn and I were able to score some last minute tickets to The Brotherhood of Appreciating Repeal Day's annual event at The Corinthian in Sharon, PA. People dress in costume, there's a live band, good food, and a ton of beer. It's a really good time, and I highly recommend it to everyone.


Highlights

• We were excited to have Hoppin' Frog's Frosted Frog Christmas Ale for the first time this year - so delicious. They're B.O.R.I.S. Crusher Oatmeal Imperial Stout was also really tasty.
• Dogfish Head's Chicory Stout is always a delicious choice if you like coffee flavors.
• Atwater - Vanilla Java Porter. Wow. Tastes just like an iced coffee. It has a thin mouthfeel for a porter, but this was really, really good. And it was a brewery we hadn't heard of before.

Last year, my favorite beer of the night was a homebrewed porter. This year, our favorites were also homebrews. Gregg Wormley from The Pumphouse Homebrew Shop in Struthers, Ohio, had a really good coffee porter (are you sensing a trend in the beers we tried? haha). He likes hops and roast together, and this beer is a really good balance of the two.


We also met two really cool guys - Colin Mann and Jeremy Palermo - who brought some amazing homebrews with them. These were so good, they tasted like beers ready to be bottled and sold commercially, not just two guys playing around with flavors and ingredients. They had four beers: Bourbon Barrel Porter, Red Scare Smokescreen, "The Glorious Lord Mirtock's Breakfast Stout," and Strangely Supernatural Fall Brown Ale.


Bourbon Barrel Porter- I am not a huge fan of bourbon barrel beers. This reminds me of a light Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale, but I enjoy the flavor. Shawn found this to be very silky with a light, delicate bourbon finish - very well done, in his opinion.
Red Scare Smokescreen- This was a very good beer - very smooth with a subtle smokiness. Very drinkable, very well done.
Breakfast Stout- It "smells like happiness" and is something I could wake up and drink. It is dark and roasty with a nice hop finish - a really good balance. This is a really fantastic beer.
Fall Brown Ale- I have in my notes two words: holy amazing. The aroma is truly that of fall - it instantly makes you think of colorful, crunchy leaves. There are cinnamon overtones, but it's smooth. The more you drink of it, the more it develops. Really well done.




All in all, it was another fun time. Food, drinks, dancing.. costumes next year..? :)