• The Dragon (quite good DIPA)
• Driftwood Scarecrow (good BA golden sour with pears)
• Quantum Juicenator (good IPA)
• Bourbon Barrel Biscotti (nice 11.1% ABV BBA stout with almonds and cherries)
• Smuzi Peach Pie a la Mode (nice smoothie sour)
• Magician's Hat Trick (quite good DIPA)
• Out of Touch (pretty good stout)
• Perse (good raspberry sour) (bottle)
• Leaf Fall Up (pretty good pumpkin spiced latte lager)
• Sky Meadow (good festbier)

3rd from left is one of our servers, the nephew of a friend of mine.

Since all the ladies were driving, they gave us guys rides to Reckless Shepherd Brewing. Niharika met us when we arrived at 1:45. Greg and Lisa eventually showed up after we'd taken the group photo. This place, which used to be called Frisco Tap House, has two sides: a restaurant/bar with food and guest taps (top two photos); and a very large space with Reckless beers and a stage where bands play. We were in the latter. Our tastings included:

• Sonnen Garten (good German pilsner)
• Mr. Gorbachev RIS '24 (good 11.5% ABV Russian imperial stout)
• Sour Prick (good prickly pear sour)
• Verstappen's Crash (pretty good farmhouse saison)
• Detained in Tijuana (fairly good dark lager)

Next stop: Cushwa Brewing, where Joel and Jeff met us. The original location is in Williamsport. We were at the Columbia location, which opened Labor Day Weekend 2023. We got food and sampled many beers, including:

• Dense Fog (pretty good NEDIPA)
• Jell-Oh! (pretty good NEDIPA)
• Electrofruit Apple Pie a la Mode (good smoothie sour)
• Electrofruit Peach Cobbler (good smoothie sour)
• Electrofruit Cherry Pie (good smoothie sour)
• Jell-Oh! (pretty good NEDIPA)
• Wishing Chair (fairly good Irish dry stout) (nitro)
• Velvet Robe (fairly good oatmeal stout)
• That'll Play (pretty good lime lager)
• Streaming Now: Season 3 (pretty good coffee lager)
• Ace Pineapple Cider (good)

Several folks left the crawl, and the remaining 8 of us went to Black Flag Brewing around 4:20ish. We tried:

• King Nug (good IPA)
• Shandy Wizard (so-so sour)
• Millions of Peaches (fairly good Belgian wheat)
• The Pour Decision (pretty good 10.3% ABV barleywine)
• Token Doubler (pretty good IIPA)
• Helldorado (good 10% ABV TIPA)
• Flagship IPA (pretty good)
• Rainbow Road 2025 (fairly good pale ale)
• All the Small Things (fairly good pale ale)

Paul left us, and the remaining 7 went to Oversea Distillery, which is a stone's throw away. We got some drinks, including a strawberry daiquiri and a "panda".

On the way back to Severna Park we went to Crooked Crab for some of their pizza and:

• Juicenado X (good NETIPA)
• Eternal Deathslayer (nice stout)
• Crab Bone (good NEDIPA)
• Livin' in Cinn (good stout)

I only dozed off once all day!

Then we came back to my house and drank in my bar until about 10:30. It had been a great day.