The schedule is here! The schedule is here!

After careful calculations and complex algorithms, we are ready to unveil the schedule for the 2017 24 Days of Beer.

Remember to pick up your beers before Friday's first beer. Only two short days until we are all enjoying some Family Drama!

If I was more tech savvy, I would insert audio of a drum roll here...

Day	Brewer	Beer	Style
12/1	Flying Dog	Family Drama	Imperial Pilsner
12/2	Monacacy	Riot Rye	Rye Pale Ale
12/3	Fishtale	Organic Wild Salmon	Pale Ale
12/4	Atlas	Dance of Days	Pale Ale
12/5	Flying Dog/Salazon	Chocolate Milk Stout	Stout
12/6	DC Brau	The Stone of Abroath	Scotch Ale
12/7	Long Trail	Hibernator	Scottish Ale
12/8	Flying Dog/Fisher's Popcorn	Caramel Lager	Lager
12/9	Union	Snow Pant	Oatmeal Stout
12/10	Ommegang	Lovely Dark and Deep	Oatmeal Stout
12/11	Southern Tier	NuSkool	IPA
12/12	Brooklyn	Winter Lager	Lager
12/13	Harpoon	Winter Warmer	Ale
12/14	Peak	Winter IPA	IPA
12/15	Sierra Nevada	Celebration	IPA
12/16	Bells	Arabicadabra	Coffee Milk Stout
12/17	Victory	Storm King	Imperial Stout
12/18	Ninkasa	Sleigh'r	Ale
12/19	Troegs	Blizzard of Hops	IPA
12/20	Heavy Seas	Winter Storm	Imperial ESB
12/21	Uinta	Rise and Pine	Dark Ale
12/22	Flying Dog/Otterbeins	Xmas Day IPA	IPA
12/23	Breckenridge	Christmas Ale	Ale
12/24	Samuel Smith	Winter Welcome	Ale

The Return of 24 Days of Beer - 2017 edition

All,

Thank you for participating in the new edition of the 24 days of beer. 

The concept is simple: Everyone in the group (18 people) get 24 beers to taste leading up to Xmas. The beers are a nice mix of holiday styles, the usual styles and the unexpected. It starts Dec. 1 and culminates on Christmas Eve.

Each day you are assigned a beer, and then your are invited to share your thoughts on each beer. The are no hard and fast rules, but try to stay close the schedule as you can and contribute a thought or two.

Also, the year we ask that you rate each beer on scale of 1 to 5 jingle bells, with the highest being the best. Time permitting we will attempt to calculate all the ratings and see what was most popular.

This year's participants are:

Scott Shepherd
Bill McNary Jeremy Reuter Don Stack Glenn Del Favero Dan B Mark T Kevin Hughes Joelle Michaels Jay Olsen Chip Berry Ross Gibson Andrew Brodeur Andrew Brodeur's father Ethan Stryker Sam Weber David Schwartz Gary Mankulish

Please comment on this blog post to ensure there are no technical difficulties.

While many of you do not know each other, you do appreciate beer... and isn't that what the season is really all about. I will post the beer schedule tomorrow, but to wet your while enjoy these images of the buying/sorting process for 432 bottles/cans of beer for about $900.

Scott