Jackson Hole 2017: Apres-ski

This is about the beers we drank in Wyoming; read about the rest of the ski trip here.

My takeaways...

• If you are ever in Jackson Hole, visit Melvin Brewing at the Thai Me Up Restaurant and Brewery. Excellent beers (my favorite is the 2x4 DIPA) and great pub-style Thai food.
• Epic Brewing's Sour IPA is pretty good, and definitely not your typical IPA.
• Sockeye Huggy Bear Dark Sour is just gross, despite its appealing name.
• A week of skiing and apres-skiing with a bunch of 20-somethings is taxing on a 50-something body.
• College kids will buy the 30-packs of Olympia, but it will sit in the refrigerator until all your craft beer is gone. I consider it money well spent on furthering the education of our youth.

Both yummy.

Both surprisingly drinkable.

My favorite.

Surprisingly not terrible at $1 per can.

Stickers on the trash can in Corbet's Cabin at the top of the tram.
"No beer is safe" was certainly true of the stash in room 306.

Melvin's Purple Drank Black-Raspberry Ale was another fun experience in my sour explorations. It's no Gürlimann Berliner Weisse from Shilling Beer Company, but still fun and tasty.

Cheers to a great day of skiing, followed by great fellowship and food at Thai Me Up / Melvin's.

Melvin's Tarnation Belgian Dark Strong Ale.

Melvin's on tap at Thai Me Up.

Cool drawings on the walls of Thai Me Up.

Jackson Whole Grocers offers Sip and Shop, craft beer on tap for $1 and a holder for your pint glass built into the shopping cart. The Sigma Chi boys were down with the Sip part of the offer, but not so much the Shop part.
Next year I'm taking a couple of growlers to Wyoming. One for a $16 Kombucha fill; the other for a $10 craft beer fill.

Proof that there is skiing before apres-ski.

Wildlife Brewing - The Tetons on Tap. I liked the beer so much, I bought the hat. :)
Sockeye Dark Sour Huggy Bear. I disliked the beer so much, I left most of it at the Teton Club.

Robes with two pockets are part of the reason we had to go to the packie store so often.

 -5F days of skiing required a soak in the hot tub.

 When 2 pockets just aren't enough, Julie acted as the beer-wallah.

The college boys rolled in the snow, then jumped in the hot tub. The graduated Jordan, found a more sensible use for the snow banks by the hot tub.

 Cody and Alexa.

 Phillip, Jared, and Nicholas.

We shared a gondola with the guitarist of PTO. So we went to the Moose to hear him play bluegrass.

The eponymous moose.

Celebrating the Mangy Moose Saloon's 50th anniversary, and we didn't even know it.

Thursday night, we helped judge the Teton Club Chili Cook Off. The next two days, I suffered gastrointestinal distress. Not saying it was the chili; several of our crew missed a day of skiing for various illnesses, so I might have picked something up over a shared sip of a craft brew.

My first score card went missing, so I made sure no one would take my second one.


Connor announced the winners. Our votes were aligned with the People's Winners, but the cup went to the Chili master selected by the official judges. Surprisingly, his chili didn't even make our top 3. Different tastes...

Teton Club has wine glasses and water glasses, but no pint glasses or tulip glasses.

The kids bought me a tulip glass to leave at the Teton Club so I won't have to drink out of inferior vessels.

The perfect pour in a perfect glass at the end of a perfect week at Jackson Hole.