Beer and cheese! They had gallons of the former and tons of the latter at the convention center yesterday afternoon, where I passed the time wandering from booth to booth with My Darling B, or passing most of the time with her, as it turned out. We got separated about midway through the afternoon and although I waited for the better part of an hour at what I thought was the agreed-upon rendezvous point we didn’t reconnect but accidentally, because she was at what she was sure was the agreed-upon rendezvous point, far, far away on the other side of the convention center. It wasn’t until I stepped away for my third or fourth trip to the head that I spotted her in the crowd and plowed my way through the teeming millions to rejoin her. My luck at finding her again was mixed. She was a teensy bit upset with me for not being at the appointed place. It didn’t seem wise to argue, so I didn’t.

Our trip from one booth to the next, most of them helpfully arranged beer, cheese, beer, cheese so we wouldn’t have to think about it too much, started at the back of the room this time because everyone was already linked up at the booths in the front of the room as we came through the door. The brewers from the Horny Goat Brewing Company were all alone back there so we sidled up to the table and sampled their wares. I tried a Belgian-style wheat beer and B had a glass of farmhouse ale nicknamed Exposed. Both were so delicious we stuck around to try the rest of their beers, and weren’t disappointed by any.

From there we worked our way to the front of the room, drinking and noshing, except for that little blip in the middle where we got separated. I tasted way too many beers to remember and I wouldn’t bother to rip out a laundry list of them here, although if you’re really interested I tweeted the ones I really liked, so there you go.