Although these beer programs combine brews of different styles and national backgrounds, and mingle lagers with ales, in each list, the dominant character in the beer grows more pronounced as the evening goes on.
Crisp Vector
Budweiser (to limber up)
Gaffel Kölsch (a little fruit—it’s an ale)
Augustiner Helles (underlying maltiness)
Penn Dark (something beefier, but still crisp)
Czechvar (can you say “Saaz?)
Hops Vector
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (an study in balance)
Jever (pilsner with punch)
Bell’s Two Hearted Ale (is that all you got?!)
Founder’s Devil Dancer DIPA (Tongue. In. Pain)
Russian River Pliny the Elder (a mighty DIPA)
Hmmm Sweet Vector
Sprecher Black Bavarian (light chocolate and coffee)
Newcastle Brown (more malt sweetness)
Left Hand Milk Stout (like a milkshake)
Fuller’s Vintage Ale (you might want to stop here)
EKU 28 (I’ll take ‘malt’ for $1,000)
Vector of Darkness
Guinness (the session stout)
Meantime Porter (add roasted barley intensity)
Dragon Stout (sweet and strong from Jamaica)
Avery Czar Imperial Stout (brewed big, shipped to Russia)
Okocim Porter (changed to lager by local brewers)
Wheat Vector
Victory Whirlwind Wit (smoothly spicy)
Franziskaner Dunkel (can I add a banana to this?)
Schneider Edel-Weisse (banana, clove, bubblegum
Ramstein Winter Wheat (turn it up!)
Marin Tripel Wheat Ale (Harder! Faster!)
Vector of Expanding Funkiness
Lindemans Framboise (this could be dessert)
Hanssen’s Kriek (reboot tastebuds)
Cantillon Gueuze (more horsiness)
Allagash Interlude (less pucker)
Lost Abbey Funky Barrel (let it rip)
