With dinner I had a Schell's Maifest. Now drinking a Deschutes Black Butte.

Had a bomber of Hop Henge IPA from Deschutes. Tasty beer and priced well for being a Double / Imperial IPA.

Ooooooohhhhh...good stuff. We've had the "regular" and the Espresso Oak Aged, which was fabulous!

DFH Indian Brown. An old friend.

IMO it was good but nothing unique and certainly not 10-12$ a bottle appealing. The blue bottle was cool looking though.

I'm drinking another Surly Abrasive Ale, and enjoying this one much more than I did the first one. Guess my tastebuds were "off" the other day. The malts are sweet but not cloying, The hops are perfectly balanced to the malts, and there's a nice floral note as well. There's also an "earthyness" on the exhale that I like. I'm looking forward to drinking the other two and see if they're as nice as this one.

BLVD Bourbon Barrel Quad

Weyerbacher Double Simcoe - hell of an ipa, and not nearly as forgettable as most IPA's I've had recently.

With some friends tonight we split some bottles of
Founders Breakfast Stout
Founders KBS
Goose Island Night Stalker
Goose Island Bourbon County

Good night. :-)

Sounds like a good night indeed. What was your favorite?

1) KBS
2) both Goose Islands
3) Breakfast Stout

It was a good night indeed and fun comparing those beers side by side.

Had a couple Greeen Lights with some spicy curry last night :-)

What were your impressions of the GI's next to each other Dave? I terested i. Another viewpoint

Had my first Goose Island beer last night. I'm not sure which one it was but I remembering seeing it listed under pale ales on the beer menu in the restaurant. It was pretty good.

Pinkus Hefe Wizen

Cantillon Kriek, 2007 per the bottle and cork.

Thought i"d try a sour. Wow. This is SOUR. I mean so sour it made me squint a couple of times, like I bit a lemon.

Hmm.

Wolavers Pat Leavy's All American Ale. A good hoppy amber.

Drinking a Dark Horse Reserve Special Black Bier Ale. It's an "American Strong Ale," which seems to be somewhere between stout and porter. Pitch black like stout, but a thinner mouthfeel like porter. This is a super tasty beer, deep malt flavor, a bit of chocolate, and a nice hoppy finish. I could drink several of these easy, but the 7.5% abv would sneak up on me.

Some thoughts on side by side of Founders Breakfast Stout-KBS and Goose Island Bourbon County-Goose Island Nighstalker.

I compared a few beers with some friends on Friday night. We first had the Founders Breakfast Stout which was the first time either of my friends had it. Right out of the gate they loved it, both of them are beer fans and stout fans. We moved onto the KBS which was also interesting since one friend had one from last year while my other friend never had one. It was noticed that after I poured the KBS it was darker top to bottom to the Breakfest Stout. First sips across the board was this blew the BS out of the water. The flavors of the coffee, vanilla, bourbon, chocolate were not hiding at all. The other big difference was the KBS had a very long finish that changed which the BS never had.

We continued the evening of beer and movies with Nightstalker. The NS started out more creamy with a little hoppiness also some kind of fruitiness to it (compared to BC). While drinking it I hard a hard time picking out all the flavors in this beer. It was all over the place at times. This was the first time any of us had tried it and amazed my friends and I. I would place this beer in my top 5 under KBS. Onto the last beer of the night GI Bourbon County. Now from what I've heard is NS is the same beer in BC, just aged in bourbon barrels. Which is hard to believe cause these are night and day compared side by side. If they are the bourbon barrels do some crazy things to the beer. I know everyone has a different palate and notice or pick up things differently. I was the only one tasted the alcohol right away while my friends didn't notice it till they were half way through. A couple more flavors I picked up with BC was toast (I know call me crazy) and towards the end I got Hostess cheery pie.

My favorite beer of the four was KBS but in a close second was Nighstalker.

nice review