Second Meeting: Brown Ales on January 18th

The results are in! Our primitive attempts at democracy seem to have worked, and it only took a solid week of harassment to get everyone to vote, and then just a couple days to decided what I wanted those votes to say.

As far as the beer went, brown ales were by far the most popular. I was surprised that the Brownies were able to present such a united front. This is relatively unknown territory for me, but I am looking forward to learning more about them. Interestingly, Brown Ales are a very wide category. The only pre-requisite is that it be made with a dark malt, alcohol content and bitterness are unrestricted.

The rules that we used last time seemed to work well. Therefore we shall repeat them. Everyone should choose a Brown Ale and post their selection in the comments section of this post. Ideally people will chose beer that is available, relevant and the one they are going to bring. Interestingly, of all the beers people selected for Stouts, only one of them actually showed up at the tasting. We probably need to work on our accuracy.
After the correct beers are selected, then I will pick a surprise brew.

As far as volume, we had some confusion on this last time so figured I should clarify. Bring at least enough for everyone to taste the beer, (approx 2 - 3 oz/ person), and we will be having up to 7 people. Although if you show up with 14 oz of beer we will call you a lousy cheapskate... unless its really good.

The date is January 18th. Apparently we are all very popular people will full social schedules. This is the earliest date where everyone could make it. Almost everyone could make it on the 11th too, but not Tison. Normally this would be unimportant, except that he offered to host the next one - making it difficult to do it with out him. Very sneaky... Because Tison is hosting it, I will let him select the time.

So, it is set. May the selections of the beer BEGIN!