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I’m starting 2019 on a personal mission. My plan is to drink 50 different beers in the first 50 days of the year. That doesn’t necessarily mean one beer each day, but a total of 50 over 50 days.

Then, starting February 20, I will go 50 days without a beer.

Then, starting April 10, I will take a self-assessment. Do I feel healthier? Am I happier? Am I an emotional wreck? Is there no significant difference?

I like beer. I really like craft beers. I really like craft beers that are dark, or hoppy, or unique; or possibly all three things at the same time. I hate to think that I’ll be better off without beer, but maybe that will be the case. My father had to stop drinking during the last 8 to 10 years of his life. He still liked beer, but beer didn’t like him.

I’ll keep a running list here, and then report out on my conclusions in April and May.

• Day 2 – Beer 1) Big Sky IPA
• Day 4 – Beer 2) Bent Paddle Harness IPA
  • Beer 3) Bent Paddle Black
  • Beer 4) Beaver Island Sweet Miss Stout
• Day 7 – Beer 5) Summit Extra Pale Ale
  • Beer 6) Lake Superior Duluth Coffee Stout
• Days 8, 9, 10 – ice fishing on Lake of the Woods – Beer 7) Fulton Citra Double Dry-Hopped 300 bottle
  • Beer 8) Shiner Bohemian Black Lager
  • Beer 9) Indeed Flavorwave IPA 

• Day 14 – Beer 10) Odell IPA
  • Beer 11) Bell’s Two Hearted Ale
• Day 16 – Beer 12) Alaskan Icy Bay IPA (meh!!)
• Day 17 – Beer 13) Beaver Island Brewing ’39 Red IPA
  • Beer 14) Earth Rider Superior Pale Ale
• Day 19 – Beer 15) Third Street BrewHouse Sugar Shack Maple Stout (can)
  • Beer 16) Oskar Blues G’Knight
• Day 21 – Beer 17) New Belgium Fat Tire
  • Beer 18) Castle Danger Cream Ale
• Day 23 – Beer 19) Tallgrass Brewing Buffalo Sweat Oatmeal Cream Stout
  • Beer 20) Hop & Barrel Hudson Haze IPA
• Day 24 – Beer 21) Milwaukee Brewing Louie’s Demise
• Day 25 – Beer 22) Big Wood Portside Porter
  • Beer 23) Rush River Unforgiven Amber Ale
• Day 28 – Beer 24) Bent Paddle Harness IPA
• Day 31 – Beer 25) Deschutes Jubelale
  • Beer 26) Earth Rider Duluth Coffee Pale Ale
• Day 33 – Beer 27) Zipline Kolsch
• Day 34 – Beer 28) Schell’s FireBrick
  • Beer 29) Surly Furious
• Day 35 – Beer 30) Guinness Stout
  • Beer 31) John Smith’s Newcastle Brown Ale
• Day 36 – Beer 32) Sierra Nevada Hop Hunter IPA
• Day 37 – Beer 33) Alaskan Brewing Smoked Porter
  • Beer 34) The Fermentorium Underwater Panther
  • Beer 35) Earth Rider North Tower Stout
• Day 38 – Beer 36) Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA
  • Beer 37) Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA
• Day 39 – Beer 38) Stone IPA
• Day 40 – Beer 39) Big Sky Scape Goat Pale Ale
  • Beer 40) Fitger’s Biere de Garde
  • Beer 41) Fitger’s Nuff Said English Pale Ale
• Day 42 – Beer 42) Hoops No. 9 Pomegranate Rye
• Day 44 – Beer 43) New Belgium 1554 Dark Lager
• Day 45 – Beer 44) Earth Rider Cognac Barrel Aged Valhalla Ale
• Day 47 – Beer 45) Firestone Walker Brewing Union Jack IPA
  • Beer 46) Golden Road Brewing Mango Cart Wheat Ale
• Day 48 – Beer 47) Hammerheart Laurentian Porter
  • Beer 48) Surly Todd – The Axe Man
• Day 49 – Beer 49) Thirsty Pagan Pabsh Double IPA
• Day 50 – Beer 50) The best beer of the first 49 deserves a repeat – and the winner is…the Duluth Coffee Pale Ale from Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, Wisconsin.

• It wasn’t easy drinking 50 beers in 50 days. Turns out that is more than I would normally drink. About 20% more, or so.
• So now the fun part begins.
• This beer lover is going to abstain from beer for the next 50 days.
• Then we’ll see which Barry is best; Beer Barry or that other guy.

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