Sunday, April 15, 2007

Beer Fest 2007, (Root Beer that is...)

To celebrate our good buddy Chad's big 3-0, we had a root beer taste test to determine the best beer around. Some of the featured brews included Frosty's, Stewarts, Faygo, Barqs, Rat Bastard, Virgil's, IBC, Sprechers, Sparky's, A&W, Dad's, Route 66, Henry Weinhardt's, Barrel Brothers, Boylan, Berghoff and Thomas Kemper...


Kimber and Chad with some various beers



Marissa and Kimber with a bottle of Faygo



Sneaky Kimber pours the brew



The table of root beer specimens


The men sample the brews recording each's sweetness, creaminess, punch, aroma, and color.





Sean using a scientific method to conduct his study.



John carefully compiling his data.







David answers the RB trivia questions.



Sean and Melissa listen the to trivia answers.




Karolyn and Ashley anxiously await the results!


Nice gift bag, Chad!


AND THE WINNER IS.....

#1

Barq's and Sparky's tied for the best beers of the night.
#2

Boylan's came in a close second

4 comments:

Lorilee said...

Sean looks like a Root Beer scientist. Fun party. I sure hope you guys had a desginated driver for the ride home... no drinking and driving!

ps. your finger nails look soooo long. Are those Lee press-ons?

derrickfam said...

Hey you! I would have killed to come to that root beer party. I always hated root beer until I was pregnant with Mylie. And now I"m obsessed with it. My favorite is MUG. I noticed that wasn't in the competition. Bummer.

the youngs said...

Courtney, too bad you don't still live here in So Cal..you would have been invited for sure. And Lors, yes, I am wearing Lee Press-On Nails, is it that obvious?!? ;)

Dr. Joel Henriod said...

We are officially depressed to have missed the beer. On the bright side we have the idea of doing a grits festival in South Carolina... there are various brands, textures, grains, etc. We would be real popular after that kind of time.