Extreme Beer Fest 2009

Last Saturday I went to the Extreme Beer Fest put on by BA in Boston with some friends. We tried a ton of different beers, from the extremely hoppy to sours, to dark chocolaty stouts and beyond. My palate is definitely much more refined from the last time I went(3 years ago I think)

And this time I managed to not only mark up which beers I liked and didn't like... but also brought said sheet back home(last summer I did the same but it got lost on the T)

I had been looking forward to trying a lot of these beers.... some I liked, some I didn't. A lot of the strong IPAs tended to all taste the same by midway through though. The overall best in my book were the Dogfish Head world wide stout, and Founders Canadian BreakfastStout. Have I mentioned that Im not usually a stout fan...

Rating System

+ I liked
= meh
- didnt like


Alagash
+ Bi-Curieux (Curieux tripel aged in barrels with hops for 1.5 years... nice balance of sweet belgian tripel with bitterness from extra hops)

Bells
+ Bells Hop Slam

Berkshire Brewing
- Nitro Coffee Porter (too strong coffee flavor)
+ Raspberry Barley Wine (used 1 lb of rasberries for every 2 gallons)
= Scotch Ale

Sam Adams
+ Imperial White
= Triple Double(just tasted weird)

Dark Horse Brewing
= Double Crooked Tree IPA
+ Hibiscus Tea (tea and beer together how could this be bad!)
- Kumquat something (way too much like kumquat)

Dogfish Head
= 120 minute IPA (wow was really interesting, unlike any IPA Ive had before)
+ Red & White (amazing belgian wit)
+ world wide stout (absolutly delicious for 18%)

FlyingDog
= Double Dog(meh just tasted like an IPA.. which I had already had a lot of by then)
- whiskey aged Gonzo (too much whiskey flavor)

Founders
+ Backwoods Bastard(bourbon barrel aged scotch)
+ Canadian Breakfast Stout(aged in maple barrels.... absolutly amazing, all my friends agreed)
= Curmudgeon (ok... my friend Nick liked it a lot)
+ Kentucky Breakfast Stout (also good but not quite as good as the Canadian)

Harpoon
= Chile Wheat(weird but not horrible)
+ Baltic Porter

Haverhill
= Tangaweizen(spicy weisse.. meh)

Rogue
= Chipotle Ale (similar but slightly better then Chile Wheat... felt like I was eating)
= Morimoto Soba Ale

Smaltz
= Freaktoberfest(only octoberfest I saw there... was decent)

Sixpoint Craft Ale
+ Belgian Chocolate Dubbel

Smuttynose
= G bock
= Gravitation(belgian quad with tons of raisin puree... nice balance to the quad)
= Oak Aged Hanami

Southern Tier
+ Oat

Stone
= Dry-hopped Double Bastard

Three Floyds
= Behemoth

Troegs
+ Mad Elf
+ Nugget Nectar
- Scratch
= Troegnator