Last night, in anticipation of Logan's b-day on Sunday, Jubb and I invited all our beer-swilling friends for a tasty beer mixer. Everyone bought a six pack of good beer and traded five of theirs for five different beers from other people.

Jubb has agreed to give me partial credit for the idea.





Here are my ladies, good beers all.

I thought I'd only had three beers all night, but in actuality I had five, a cavalcade of different beer styles. I started with a Reissdorf kölsch, my pre-party beer, then had a Hacker-Pschorr dunkelweizen, then a Hoegaarden witbier I traded with Jubb for and mixed with Cola because it's delicious, a Köstritzer schwarzbier from my own six-pack, and finally one of Zack's Theakston Old Peculier old ales.

Only the last beer was a disappointment.

This was probably one of the most expensive parties we've had all year. Combined, the guests spent easily $100 on good beer. And amazingly, there's leftover beer.

So obviously I'm satisfied. I wish I could have gotten through my six-pack, of course — I have two mystery beers left — but I am what I am.