Gravity Head Journal: Fourth Thursday report from the front.

March is finished, warmer weather has brightened the days this week, and as expected, Gravity Head progress has slowed.

Gravity fatigue sets in each year, so it isn't a surprise.

We're 18 business days into Gravity Head 2005, and there are only eight beers yet to be tapped, and here is the way it stands as of 5:00 p.m. today.

ON TAP NOW: Thursday, March 31.
BBC Brewing Bearded Pat's Barley Wine '02
*New Holland Black Tulip Trippel Ale
De Dolle Ara Bier
EKU 28
Fantome Ete
Gales Prize Old Ale 2003 (keg)
*Great Lakes Blackout Stout
Guldenberg (De Ranke)
*Hitachino Japanese Classic Ale
Mahrs Der Weisse Bock
*New Albanian NobleSmoker (3rd keg)
*New Holland Black Tulip Abbey Tripel
Rogue Imperial Pilsner (2nd keg)
Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine (2004)
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2005 "THEY'RE HISTORY" - BLOWN KEGS
Avery Hog Heaven
*Avery The Beast
Bluegrass Brewing Co. Mephistopheles Metamorphosis
Bell’s Batch 6000
Bell’s Expedition Stout
De Dolle Boskeun
De Dolle Dulle Teve (Mad Bitch) (first keg)
Fantome Saison
Gale’s Prize Old Ale 2004 (cask-conditioned)
*Geants Goliath Tripel
*Great Divide Hercules Double IPA
*Great Divide Oaked Yeti Imperial Stout
J. W. Lees Vintage Harvest Ale (5-gallon pin; 2003; Lagavulin-primed)
New Albanian NobleSmoker (four kegs gone)
*New Holland Pilgrim’s Dole Wheatwine Style Ale (2004)
*Ringneck Brewing FOTB Barley Wine
Rogue Imperial Pilsner (first keg)
Rogue Old Crustacean Barley Wine (Vintage 2000)
*Rogue Roguetoberfest (first keg)
*Rulles Tripel
Stone Double Bastard Ale
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Two Brothers Bare Tree Weiss Wine (2004)
*Weihenstephaner Korbinian Doppelbock
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YET TO BE TAPPED
Anchor Old Foghorn Ale
*Avery Maharaja Imperial IPA (in transit)
De Dolle Oerbier
Gales Millennium Ale
Hitachino Celebration Ale 2005
N’Ice Chouffe
Samichlaus 2003
Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale (Vintage 2004)
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SECOND KEGS STILL TO BE TAPPED
De Dolle Dulle Teve
*Rogue Roguetoberfest
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SCRATCHES
*Rogue Fresh Hop Harvest Ale
The Rogue Fresh Hop did not make the trip from Oregon and has been scratched.
*Three Floyds (to be announced)
The Three Floyds keg proved to be Brian Boru, which is not a Gravity Head beer.