Thanks to Andrew, Bill, Matt, Anna, Grant and Joe as well as a potential new member Brett for coming to the meeting last night.

We tasted the following American Octoberfest beers:

Brooklyn

Shiner

Sam Adams

Lake Superior

Summit

Millstream

Great Lakes

Becks (brewed in St Louis)

Schell’s

Point

Boulevard

None of them compared to any of the following from Germany:

Hofbrau

Spaten

Paulaner

Hacker-Pschorr

The ‘best’ of the American versions was Summit – hurray for the local guys!

The others were drinkable beers, well, most of them, just not very good compared to the German ones.

The Mash Paddle went to Joe for his double decocted Octoberfest…..well done Joe!

Cheers!

//Mike Behrendt