Last night was my friend Joel's Bachelor party, where as one could imagine some beer was drank.

after a round of candlepin bowling, we hit up The Joshua Tree for dinner

I started off with a Leinenkugel Sunset wheat, which looked like a good Hefe weissen, however it smelled very sweet, and unfortunately tasted so as well, very disappointing

I followed that up with a Hoegaarden wit beer. Which was better, but kinda bland as far as Belgian wit beers go, I definitely prefer Alagash white(I just found out that one of my favorite breweries, LongTrail has just put out a Belgian wit... definitely looking forward to try that

after dinner we went to Good Times, which turned out to be quite sketchy. There was a big arcade, laser tag, bumper cars, pool, batting cage, and about half the place was a sports bar, with huge wall-sized screens showing everything from the Sox playing in Oakland(where molly was at the game) to lacrosse.

while we were in the acade section, we were just about the only non-minority group around(and 10+ years older then the average kid) in the sports bar section where we played some pool we were 10+ years younger then everyone else.

it was still fun though, we played some air hockey, and laser tag(where the 5 of us owned these 4 younger kids)

back to beer, luckily we live in Boston, and you can get Sam Seasonal at most bars, which is often the best beer around in the summer. So thats what Jon, Joel and I had.

It wasn't quite as great as I remembered, but was still good, I'll probably give a full review of it sometime when I remember to take some notes

After that we walked to Sullivan Sq, took the bus back to my place, and I drove everyone back to Jon's In retrospect we should a driven to Good Times cause the bus was a bit of a pain, but we wanted to play it safe

Sierra Nevada Summerfest

first impressions smells like a lager, looks very carbonated, bubbles look very cool in my beer glass

taste, crisp, but kinda bland, starts off with a small bite. After taste is a bit bitter.

overall: not a fan. I like most summer beers, and most beers from Sierra Nevada, but this one just wasnt very good. Its drinkable but definitely not my first choice.

lots of weisse

Its been a while since I have posted, thats just me being lazy. I have tried a number of good beers in the time, so I'll give a short review of em here

Jupiter is a brew pub with a beer garden in Berkely CA, A blues group started performing shortly after we got there... great atmosphere

Jupiter HefeWeissen: blah
bright orange color, bland American weisse taste

Jupiter Helles: good!
nice Munich helles style, very crisp and drinkable, much better then their weisse

Gordon Biersh Hefeweissen: good!
This was surprisingly good for an American Hefeweissen. The beginning taste was not quite traditional.. but it ended strong like a real Bavarian weisse, I was impressed. It also went well with the garlic fries I had for lunch.

Sam Adams Honey Porter: good
I'm usually not a big fan of porters or dark beer in general, and Ive found most Sam Adams beers to be average, this is different though. It poors out like a nice dark porter. Has a nice honey nose to it, tastes quite good... will say more about this after Shelby's Indiana Jones party on sunday(where more awaits me in her fridge)

lastly a rant: I was out at pub trivia with Shelby last night(Tomy Doyles in Harvard SQ) and they had one of my favorites on tap, Paulaner weisse, Im usualy a 1 beer sorta guy out at pub trivia, but since they had this exemplar of Bavarian weisse on tap, I went for 2. The first was served perfectly: half liter weisse beer glass, about an inch of head. the 2nd however was served flat, 12 oz in a pint glass, I was not happy... maybe Im just a wheat beer snob I figured that maybe they were out of glasses, and the 2nd would be cheaper then the first... but no they cost the same... never going back there again.