I’ve taken an odd route through tracking the beer that I drink. I used to use Untappd religiously, even entering in the homebrew that I drank. Then I stopped. Then I started again, though I still didn’t use the social features: I’d load the app, check in to the beer I had, then close the app. No “toasts” or comments or anything of the sort. Last year I began the great purge of “quantified self” habits: I tracked for the sake of tracking, and the habits just stressed me out rather than providing any benefit.
And yet, I still need to work on mindfulness. I didn’t so much care about recording the beers I drank as I did about thinking about them. I read a post on the Kegworks blog: 10 Beer Fest Essentials. A tasting notebook, you say…! I do like hand writing things. I stopped at the Kegworks store and picked up a 33 Bottles of Beer notebook, taking it with me to our second book club discussion.
Without further ado: a list of the 33 beers that I drank (recorded only if it was the first time I had tasted it since starting the notebook).
Date started: May 21, 2014
- White Corner Wheat (Hamburg): 5/21
- Mama’s Little Yella Pils (Oskar Blues): 5/21
- Sah’tea (Dogfish Head): 5/21
- Nitro Milk Stout (Left Hand): 5/21
- Hop Stoopid (Lagunitas): 5/21
- The Double IPA (Community Beer Works): 5/23
- Raging Bitch (Flying Dog): 5/25
- Rutherford B. Haze (Community Beer Works): 5/25
- Deviant Dale’s IPA (Oskar Blues): 6/1
- Mowmaster (Ellicottville): 6/3
- Fleur de Belgique (Ithaca): 6/6
- Shuck Norris Round 2 (Drew Hardin): 6/6
- Singularity (Nugget) (Community Beer Works): 6/6
- Bridge Kolsch (Resurgence): 6/7
- Loganberry Wit (Resurgence): 6/7
- Summer Saison (Resurgence): 6/7
- Sponge Candy Stout (Resurgence): 6/7
- Session IPA (Resurgence): 6/7
- Summer Wit (Resurgence): 6/7
- Blood Orange Saison (Resurgence): 6/7
- Laissez-Faire (Ithaca): 6/11
- Obscurité (Ithaca): 6/13
- Torpedo (Sierra Nevada): 6/28
- Heart of Darkness (Magic Hat): 6/28
- Old Chubb (Oskar Blues): 6/28
- Summerfest (2014) (Sierra Nevada): 6/28
- King Titus (Maine Beer Co): 7/2
- Farmer’s Tan (Southern Tier): 7/2
- Cream Ale (Eric Stellrecht): 7/2
- Lagunitas Sucks: 7/2
- Claymore Scotch Ale (Great Divide): 7/2
- Anchor Steam: 7/2
- Antigoon (The Musketeers): 7/2
Date finished: July 2, 2014
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