The Legend

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Showing posts with label oktoberfest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oktoberfest. Show all posts

Sunday, October 15, 2017

A Successful Homecoming

I had a ton of fun this weekend, but I feel like I need to sleep for 3 days. On Friday night we had around 40 people at our house which is fun, but exhausting. We can still party like undergrads every once in a while, but the recovery time has gone up ten fold.

The theme this weekend was Oktoberfest so lets take a look at some of the better beer I tried.

 Fat Heads has long been a favorite brewery of mine so I'm always excited to try any beer I can from them. This one was more on the sweeter side of the Oktoberfest style, but very tasty.

 I didn't know this beer existed. Schlafly is a brewery I've had a ton over the years, but had never seen this release until this year. Most Oktoberfest beers are low abv.....Schlafly decided to pump one up as this one clocks in at 8.5%.  It was amazing. Definitely one of the better beers I tried over the weekend.

 My brother goes to North Carolina quite a bit so over the years I've had him bring me some of the local brews back. Since he took a late trip in September he was able to accumulate some Oktoberfest.  This was my favorite of the NC ones.

Of course no Oktoberfest is complete without a nice sampling of traditional German Marzens. 


WVU managed to get the win on Saturday so that completed the fun weekend. It was looking pretty bad at the half, but WVU managed to overcome an 18 point deficit. 

I celebrated the win with an old fashion

Back to cards tomorrow!

Thanks for reading.

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Party Planning Committee


This weekend is homecoming for WVU and my wife and I throwing a big Oktoberfest themed party. We are expecting around 45 guests and have several friends staying with us all weekend.  It is something I look forward to every football season. 

With the Oktoberfest theme you have to have good beer!

This year I took it upon myself to see how many Oktoberfest beers I could accumulate. Right now I'm sitting right around 30 with several of my out of town friends contributing to the pile tomorrow. Perhaps I'll go on a drunken Bob Walk eBay purchasing bender.

Need some good food too.

I found an online German deli to help me accumulate some unique sausages. I've been on a diet for the last couple of months which I will undoubtedly destroy over the weekend.  Well worth it.

My wife is the big hero of the party as she takes it upon herself to make all the other dishes from scratch. Homemade potato salad, sauerkraut, beer dip and desserts just to name a few.

If you are in the area feel free to stop by.  Probably a good weekend to really fleece me on a trade.

Prost!