Saturday Listening & Beer Party. YUMBowl!

A few of my concert tour buddies and I got together last Saturday for what has become an annual event. YUMBowl! It's kind of a spin off of Umphrey's McGee's now annual UMBowl. Last year when the band announced this special four set show in Chicago we decided that it would be cool to buy the high resolution download of the show and host our own listening party. We decided on the venue, our friend Dan's house in Chalfont, PA. He has a stellar audio playback system and comfortable seating. We all brought some good craft beer. Last year was a ton of fun, but this year we needed to step it up in the beer department.

We all brought lots of craft beer from our respective areas of the East coast (Baltimore, Philly, NJ/NY, CT) When we get together for concert tours we sometimes swap brews to collect stuff that can't be found in our home markets. We all arrived Friday evening and made several shopping trips to local grocery stores, bars and bottles shops. The Philly area beer scene cannot be beat. I believe that we each left with about as much beer as we brought.

I was very excited to finally get some stuff from Russian River, Pretty Things, New Glarus & Deschutes. Currently none of those breweries distribute to my area.

There is no way that I could do a full review of everything that we drank. Stand outs from the weekend for me were Goose Island Dominique, Victory Dark Intrigue, New Glarus Raspberry & Apple, Pretty Things Baby Tree & Fluffy White Rabbits & 2002 Victory Golden Monkey. Keep in mind that this lasted from Friday evening through the early hours of Sunday morning. Breaks for food and naps were taken. We believe that we helped to crash the Untappd servers with all of our check-ins. Here's the run down of what we had.

Cigar City Guava Grove

Russian River Damnation

Spring House Brewing Mango IPA

Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits

Goose Island Pepe Nero

Heavy Seas Siren Noir

Spring House Brewing Planet Bean 

Goose Island Dominique

Clown Shoes Hoppy Feet

New Glarus Raspberry Tart

Victory Golden Monkey (Vintage 2002)

Cisco Brewers Cherry Woods

Boston Beer Company Infinium

Pretty Things Baby Tree

Ale Union Amber

Dogfish Head Pangaea

Mikkeller/Stillwater Artisanal Two Gypsies Our Side

Russian River Sanctification

Sweetwater 420 Extra Pale Ale

New Glarus Unplugged Apple Ale

Element Interval Series Vernal (wrapped)

Element Interval Series Vernal (wrapped)

Deschutes The Abyss (Vintage 2010)

Buckbean Orange Blossom Ale

Heavy Seas Holy Sheet

De Proefbrouwerij Reinaert Flemish Wild Ale

Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA (Vintage 2008)

Bootleggers Brewery Black Phoenix

I didn't get pictures of these three:
JW Lees Harvest Ale (Vintage 2002)
Central Waters Illumination

Fegley's Brew Works Hop'solutely

Heavy Seas Dubbel Cannon