Guest Post! Founders Dinner Beer Review!

Roommate Joe - neat freak, aspiring (and excellent) home brewer, INCREDIBLY accommodating. Joe got pretty excited about the opportunity to review some beers to the point where he took things way more professionally than I did and actually took tasting notes all night. What a guy! What follows is his review in order of consumption and course-pairing.

"The Founders Dinner beerlist turned out to be a (almost) vertical tasting, and while I wholly believe this was unintentional, I enjoyed the experience more than I thought I would given that I've had 3 out of 4 of them individually in the past.

Unfortunately the representative they sent worked for a distributor -not the brewery- so we were very limited on the amount and kinds of information we were able to get from him."

Mellow Mushroom's Founders Brewery Beer Dinner

Fun fact: Mellow Mushroom is basically my favorite place in the world. 

With over 120 locations nationwide, it's a bit more chainy than I'd like to make a habit of getting into on this site, but each singular visit tends to be so remarkable that I can't help but talk about the place as a public service to any tourists in the area who have no idea what's going on at this place.

On the surface, the Myrtle Beach Mellow Mushroom is a pizza place. Digging a little deeper reveals it's so much more. Since opening in 2008, this Mellocation (oh my god did you just see what I did?) has been a huge regional proponent of furthering the craft beer cause. With over 40 taps and countless more varieties in bottles, there's something for every taste here from the mundane (Miller, Bud, Coors) to the eclectic and electric (Dogfish Head, Westbrook, Lagunitas).

What's this got to do with food? I'm thrilled you asked! Let me help you with that!