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  Re: Beers of Recent Antiquity (Patrick Babcock)


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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:49:29 -0400
From: Patrick Babcock <patrick.babcock at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Beers of Recent Antiquity

Greetings, Beerlings! Take me to your geriatric lagers...

>   I'm not sure if you'll remember this beer or not, but way back in 2002 (at
> the MCAB in Cleveland) I gave a sweet stout to Jeff Renner to hand off to
> you when he returned to Ann Arbor.  You emailed me when you tried it and
> said that you enjoyed it.

Actually, I remember it well!

>   Well, I just found the last few bottles of it several months ago.  I also
> chilled one down and gave it a try.  Like your stout, it doesn't really hold
> a head any more.  Other than being quite a bit more dry, and getting a
> vinous character, it's still very drinkable!

Glad I'm not the only one "losing" beer in my basement. Admittedly,
the stout came from a shelf that I had intentionally stored beer onto for
aging and sampling over time - I had just forgotten it was there.
Never intended it to produce teenagers and beyond! On another shelf,
elsewhere in the basement, I have a 4 pack of Thomas Hardy that I've
drunk two of: one when it was new, one at, I think, 15 years old. Will
be drinking the third at 20, and the last at 25, if I stick to my
plan. The keg of porter? Totally blind-sided me. I honestly thought it
full of water. Might have to save that for the next time I attend an
AABG meeting before I broach it. Then again, with my attendance
record, that might add a few more years to its age...

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See ya!
Pat Babcock
HBD Chief of Janitorial Services

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