Cory Strischek

Saturday, June 5, I was very lucky to have attended Savor Craft Beer & Food “Experience” at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC — my second Savor!

First of all, I love the National Building Museum.  I’d probably pay to sit in on a jury trial if it was held there.  Second, I tasted 27 beers in under 3 hours and still walked out under my own power.

Here’s what I had:

1. Abita – Andygator
2. Alaskan Brewing Co. – Alaskan Smoked Porter (Long line for this, not sure why.)
3. Boulevard Brewing Company – Tank 7
4. Boulevard Brewing Company – Boulevard Pilsner
5. Brooklyn Brewery – Sorachi Ace
6. Brown’s Brewing Company – Oatmeal Stout (A good beer.)
7. Clipper City – Heavy Seas “Loose Cannon” IPA (One of my favorite beers for years now.  Pretty fun tour near Baltimore if you ever have the chance.)
8. DOG Brewing Company – Pub Dog Very Cherry
9. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery – (The hype around Sam Caglione was so intense at this booth that we chose not to elbow past the cameras.  Sad.  But I drink enough of it anyhow.)
10. Saranac Imperial Stout
11. Flying Dog – Raging Bitch (She really pushed the Wasabi Ginger Truffles with this and, yeah, it was good!)
12. Foothills Brewing – Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout (The Saras were all over this company because they’re from NC.  Maybe my favorite beer there.  The whole Savor “experience” was pretty Stout/IPA.)
13. Foothills Brewing – Hoppyum IPA (Also good.)
14. Great Divide – Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout
15. Lagunitas – Hop Stoopid (I like this.)
16. Magnolia – Big Cyrpress Brown Ale
17. Ommegang – Three Phils, yo!
18. Ommegang – Hennepin
19. Rogue – Chocolate Stout (Yep, good.)
20. Saint Somewhere Brewing Company – Pays du Soleil (I like this.)
21. Ska Brewing Co. – Nefarious Ten Pin Imperial Porter (ha)
22. Southampton Publick House – Cuvee des Fleurs (Sweet!)
23. The Brewer’s Art – Resurrection (Now in cans! But only at Wine Source in Bmore, apparently.)
24. The Brewer’s Art – Green Peppercorn Tripel (Definitely tasted like pepper.  Also, like feet.)
25. The Bruery – Rugbrod (Great with mac and cheese.)
26. The Saint Louis Brewery Inc. / Schlafly – Schlafly Oak Aged Barleywine
27. Troegs – JavaHead Oatmeal Stout

For food, the leftover pulled lamb from the pre-party was AWESOME.  Everything else was pretty good.  Mac and Very Cheddar Cheese stole the show.  Cheese grits were also nice.  Bamboo stuff was a good thought but a little precarious.  I pre-gamed with a bag of jellybeans and closed out at Wisdom with bourbon gingers (Sara had some creepy thing with a grape in it.) — which was, in hindsight, not the best idea.