The back story is this. We had reserved a keg of Spaten (Munich) for the event, but neither we, nor the market that sold it to us, knew that a special tap had to be obtained for this imported keg. After getting the keg home at around 4pm using Carlos' vehicle, Matt and I had to rush back out (while Jeffy stayed at my house to deal with the food) to drive all over Northern Virginia to find this special tap. We brought the keg with us on ice and had to drive it from store to store to see whether the taps they had would fit. OMG!!
By the time we got back to the house with special tap in hand, the party had started, and I went from stressed to calm back to stress again, as a dozen or so hungry men gathered expecting bratwurst and brotchen. I found my "calming medicine" in the liter steins of Spaten, straight from its specially-tapped keg (look at the first picture). And because of the stress of the afternoon described above, I might have overdid it a bit. After 2-and-a-half of those liter mugs, and a couple of large gulps from the boot (see photo with George), I don't remember much of the evening. Looking at the pictures, I remember perhaps half....up to the end of the "awards ceremony."
According to reliable sources, I was having conversations in which I was apparently coherent, but completely confabulating. And the evening ended with Matthew cleaning my bathroom rug. Anyway....
Thanks to Matt and George for cleaning after me, to Carlos for lending his car/table/chairs, to Jeffy for handling most of the food, to Luis for being incredible with the boot, and to everyone who came to share the evening and the fall season. I apologize to anyone to whom I might have said any number of things at the end of the evening. Apparently, I might have looked coherent. I was not. Cheers!
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