And if you're drinking well you know that you're my friend and I say "I think I'll have myself a beer"

So since I decided not to fill this thing with nonsense regarding statement of cash flows, organizational design, excel modelling, and bond calculations, I'll talk about what is filling up most of the rest of my time: Booze.

I say that with some hint of sarcasm, but not as much as I would have supposed entereing business school. Simply put: These people like to party. I thought I was prepared, but man, this harkens back to the days of undergrad. I'm not sure if it's a because there are abunch of fairly outgoing people trying to take advantage of their last few years of free time or if it's more due to the isolation of Hanover combined with the intensity of the program, but I'm not quite sure I can hang.

A few weeks ago we had a pretty great event, the John Barleycorn Oktoberfest. The John Barleycorn Society is the beer society at Tuck and, while not as established as the wine or scotch club, has a pretty good following. There's a good amount of beer appreciation up here and a surprisingly good selection of beers (although I didn't get this year's Stone Vertical Epic series beer so if you see it, grab me one, I'll trade something good from up here). The Oktoberfest ideally had German beers, but there aren't a ton of them up here so it was a mix of German and American German-style beers. Magic Hat, Sam Adams, and Harpoon all have pretty tasty offerings so it was a good time.

This past Friday was the International party which was fantastic. There were tables representing students from about 20 different countries, each with food and drinks unique to their locales. Some stuff was expected (cheap beer from Canada, rum and cokes from cuba, sangria from Spain), but there were some surprises including something-something sour from Peru, some gross drink from Italy made with prosecco and other stuff, and this great orange drink also from Spain. You can tell they were good as I have no memeory of their names (to be fair, I can't remember people's names either).

Finally, I come to my beer purchases, one of which I'm sampling now. There are a number of craft breweries in the general area: Harpoon, Long Trail, Smuttynose. All are tasty and all have some pretty good limited run brews. The Long Trail brewmaster series has a fantastic Porter which I've had a few of and a double IPA which is currently in the fridge. Harpoon has their Leviathan series and their Leviathan IPA is on tap at a bar around the corner. Additionally, they have a Wet Hop Ale I've got, but yet to try. Finally, Smuttynose has some of their "Big Beer" series, their Big A IPA which I'm excited about and the Farmhouse Ale which I'm drinking right now. It's not quite my style of beer, a Saison, but it drinks fantastically. I'm not going to try and describe it, but it's quite refreshing and is the kind of beer you'd want to drink after being outside for a while (but make sure you eat first because it's a bit strong at 7.5ish%).

I'll try and write more and perhaps about non-alcoholic things too.