For the ultimate in beer enjoyment for those of us who find the commercial barley pop lacking in just about every redeeming quality. There is a little festival the 1st of October in Denver known as THE Great American Beer Festival. I worked that festival for 15 years, the last 5 of those was on the tapping crew.
We tapped 1000+ kegs of beer. There were 0ver 1200 beers served at the fest. You get to taste the beers 1 ounce at a time.
That would be the equivalent of app. 25 cases ,if you wanted to try them all. After 15 years I figure I tried 15 cases.
At the end of the festival I would get compensated for a week worth of 12 to 15 hour days of work with the leftover beer. I usually brought home 50 to 100 cases of all kinds of Micro beer.
I was a very popular guy in the nieghborhood ( For you Denverites, I lived on Squaw Pass at the 10,000 foot elevation)
I do have one heck of a bottle collection, all empty. The list of whats good won't fit on this forum. The triple bocks, barleywines, and other high gravity brews are great. My personnel favorite is my own creation I called Bill Purple Ribbon (BPR) (for the ribbon I won with it) Fractale. (fractals are the mathamatical study of chaos) I threw everything I could find in and fermented it.