This weekend was my birthday so my husband and I decided to throw a party on our roof deck. We decided to instead of just drinking beer (not that there’s anything wrong with that), we’d also make it a blind beer-tasting event. We ended up with about a total of 37 beers and wrapped each one in brown bags tied with strings (bakers twine leftover from our wedding actually) and numbered each one 1-37. We made a big sheet listing the beer numbers and had everyone taste as many as they could and rate them 1-5. We tallied up the votes and averaged them up and the winner was…drum roll…

This cute guy! A white ale. Best-tasting, and frankly one of the best designed labels out there too. The guest who brought the winning beer received a beer boot as a prize.

If you’re thinking of holding a beer-tasting event, this website has some great tips. In hindsight, I would probably recommend keeping the tasting beers to about 10-15. 37 was a lot to keep up with. We also had a pour-back bowl to pour out any beer you were tasting that you didn’t like. All in all though, a super fun event! And it didn’t hurt that we had great weather and an awesome deck to have it on: