Beerneuring Freezing Saddles Side Bet is Back!

[Bob James]

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The most most awesome beer. Chocolate Milk Stout from Old 690 Brewery, Purceville, VA. Had to ride down a dirt road to get to the brewery. Beer was rich, sweet and had chocolate flavor.

“Our dark and rich Chocolate Milk Stout is brewed with pure milk sugar and a lathering of sweet milk chocolate. While you’ll find hints of coffee notes in this one it finishes like the end of a glass of chocolate milk. “

[Sunyata]

I was planning on doing a 200k brevet on Saturday, but it was cancelled. Unfortunately, I did not know this until I had already driven to Poolesville. So, instead, I figured why not get a few more beerneuring points? 😎

I still wanted to get in some decent miles and I had been wanting to try and find a rideable route to Ocelot. So Dane and I went exploring.

After some interesting route adjustments, we made it!

The first beer I had was the Schizophrenia, an Altbier. It was good but in all honest was not worth the convoluted ride to get to it.
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The second beer there was Thought Control. It was delightfully hoppy, with just a hint of citrus. Totally worth the ride to get there.
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[Sunyata]

Saturday was also Crooked Run Central’s official grand opening. It was really crowded, with loud music, and a taco restaurant built in. WAY different from the original Crooked Run in Leesburg, which is one of my favourite breweries.

I had the Night Cap, which was a porter. It was good. Nice and malty, but kind of generic and not what I would have expected out of Crooked Run. I am hoping that once the “newness” wears off, it will become a bit more like the original Crooked Run (which, is still open, by the way… They are doing most of their “fun” brews at the old location).

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[Sunyata]

The last stop was Beltway Brewing. I really wanted to try one of their contract brews, but I was not sure if that was allowed. The contract brews ARE brewed there, just under a different brewery name. To be on the safe side, I grabbed a Hansel, which is their signature sour. It is actually a really good “intro to sour beers” beer. A little pucker, but not overly sour/bitter.

I would have also had one of the contract beers, but the clouds were rolling in and I did not bring rain gear. We did end up getting rained on for the last three or four miles. But all in all, it was a good day!

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[jrenaut]

IMG_20170319_155545784 by Jon, on Flickr

Pictured is their pilsner, which was fine but I forget the name. I liked the Spotswood’s Expedition, a coffee black lager made with local coffee, better than the pilsner, but I didn’t like the photo as much.

[jrenaut]

FYI – I miscounted mine. I just updated the post titles, but my final total was 16, not 17.

[consularrider]

Well, I still haven’t made it to the Heimatmuseum Dotzheim for the beer brewers exhibition in Wiesbaden, but a craft beer festival is coming to my neighborhood at the end of the month!

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[sjclaeys]

2017 BEERNEURING RESULTS!

Thanks to everyone who participated this year. According to my counting, we had 15 people participated and there were 97 visits. Well done! Here are the scores:

Sunyata -21
jrenaut – 16
fxbooks – 12
ctankcycles – 11
reji – 8
jwetzel – 8
bikedavid – 6
SteveO – 4
lordofthemark – 3
Judd – 2
kwarkentien – 2
SecState – 1
QuikAF77 – 1
shardg – 1
Bob James – 1

If you think that I have your scoring wrong, please PM me by this evening with a list of locations and, if possible, the dates you posted them on this thread. Thanks!

[Judd]

Congrats to Sunyata. Glad to have been around for some of those beers. I’m always too eager to drink the beer that I forget to take a picture.

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[sjclaeys]

For those curious about what this year’s beerneuring prize will be, I went to Richmond last weekend and came back with this deliciousness:

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