November Schedule Announced!

Go ahead and hold your hats, folks, and while you're at it, take off of work on November 8th, 'cause we're headed to Butler, NJ (High Point Brewery / Ramstein Beer) for the debut of the Winter Wheat! High Point is America's first exclusively wheat beer brewery, and though we may not all love a Wheat, we all love Germany, and these are brewed in the traditional four ingredient Deutsch style! Hip hip huzzah for Deutschland!

Here are some facts stolen from the website:

"Greg found a special brewer’s yeast used only by a small brewery in Bavaria. He was able to get the brewery to let him use the special yeast exclusively at High Point. The unique, complex character of Ramstein beers is a result of this private yeast and of course, High Point’s careful and proper brewing methods."

and

"The name Ramstein was adopted from a town in Germany with a large American population. The town surrounds the U.S. Ramstein Air Force Base. High Point wanted the name of its beers to reflect a marriage of German tradition and American innovation."

Bam! Quotations!

This is one of our furthest locales - It'll take about an hour to get there, but oh will it be worth it!

Princeton's Premier Brew Club goes Flusspferd...

Ye Olde Peculiars were out and about in (almost) full force today.  We missed three of our lovely members - GBR ROR and NSP.  From our brief Ausflug to River Horse in Lambertville NJ I learned a few important things:

1) Our blazers with patches are awesome and attract attention from drunk people.

2) Middle aged drunk people say the darndest things.

3) No matter how many times you say "Seminary" people only hear "Princeton".

All in all a successful trip all around.

CMH

Just Because You Have the Hiccups...

Doesn't mean you're "drunkie," otherwise my childhood would have been far more colorful.

Oktoberfest

Mr. J. Twardy was correct in his analysis that today was a fantastic first official blazer outing for the Peculiars. As official scribe for the day, I thought I'd share our thoughts on some of River Horse's best brews. Here we go:

Dunkel Fester: The official Oktoberfest beer at RH, three of us tried this for our first beer of the day. We found it to be darker than we expected an Oktoberfest beer to be, but still found it to be good and flavorful. Alcohol content was 4.5%, so it was a low alcohol beer.

Imperial Cherry Ale: Ms C. Hallagan ventured this one in the first round. The ICA had a mahogany hue, but was still translucent in appearance. It was fruity and sweet with a sturdy head (pause for a "that's what she said"). C. Hallagan called it "very pleasurable"; I thought it was too hoppy. Alcohol content was 7%, so mid-range of the beers we tried today.

'91 Gold Double White Belgian (or something like that): Mr. J. Twardy's second beer. It was golden, light, and somewhat opaque. There was very little head, and it had a banana citrus twang, which was accented by the lady on stage saying the word twang literally 10 seconds after J. Twardy said it. Alcohol content of 7.5%.

Belgian Tripel: Yes, I meant to spell Tripel that way. This was beer number two for C. Hallagan and A. Stuckey. It had a crisp taste to it, a strong but subtle flavor. The color was described as somewhere between pumpkin and warm light amber. Alcohol content of 9-10%, which explains why A. Stuckey was a drunky by the end of the tasting and was reduced to hiccuping her way back to the car.

And that was it! As previously mentioned, fantastic day, lots of drunk people staring at our awesome coats. I'll leave it to Ms A. Stuckey to tell the highlight drunk encounter; I don't think I could do it justice.

JET's thoughts on River Horse

We have just returned home from our day out and about. The journey was an epic one filled with Jersey traffic, rocking tunes, and fall foliage. Driving around downtown Lambertville was a thrilling task for me and there was one street I drove down that had literally just enough room in the lane for the car with about an inch left on either side. We finally found a spot, paid for parking, and asked the church volunteer parking attendant where to go for food and music. He informed us we would find no music on a Sunday. Leigh then asked about Oktoberfest which got quite an emphatic "I don't know anything about that!" So, we wandered down the streets on the way to the brewery, which was not that hard to find. We enjoyed beers, music, awkward attention from drunk people, and wandering about the brewery. Others in attendance can share some of the encounters we had. I would like to share the astonishing event that happened right when we arrived had just finished buying our beer tickets with special event cups. We were standing right by the band and they finished the song they were playing when we got there and began another. The song they began playing was "Ain't That Peculiar?" by Mister Marvin Gaye. How perfect is that!!!

All in all it was an enjoyable day. Christy can share the notes we had about the beers we drank and Christy or Leigh can share some of the other stories from the day. 

"Good people drink good beer" - Hunter S. Thompson

peaceJET

Welcome!

After a most successful blazer ceremony, I am happy to announce the membership of Princeton's finest Beer Tasting Club, The Olde Peculiars: C. M. Hallagan, N. S. Preuninger, G. L. Booker Richards, R. O. Richards, C. M. Roesky, A. A. Stuckey and J. E. Twardy received their Seminary Patches after the Red, White and Blue Parking Lot Liturgy.

Huzzah!

Here on the Olde Peculiar Blog, you'll be able to read our beer reviews, catch up on news, and find links to our favorite breweries.

We are looking forward to Oktoberfest 2k8 at River Horse on Sunday, October 12. Good food, good beer, good times.

Brother Rich has suggested that we read some poetry every now and again. I'm proposing that our in-house meetings (trips to Triumph or 261 Washington) be dedicated to great poetry. Thoughts?

Well, that's all for now.

Cheers!