We are going to Canada! We are going to Canada!  We are going, we are going, we are going to Canada!

Go USA women!!!!  Bring the cup back in 2015.  I'm thinking this is the year.  Morgan...  Alex Morgan...  Alex...  Morgan...  OK.  Sorry.  Got a bit carried away there.  Also,
Wambach's last go round.  Becky Sauerbrun at the back line running the show.  No way we can lose now.

To celebrate the USA's second qualifier, we decided to do a blog at Tony and Amanda's nicest basement ever while we watch the US.

John, being the biggest Sporting KC fan ever, brought a bottle of Sporting KC Championship beer with him:

Brewer: Boulevard
Beer Name: Sporting KC Championship Ale
Beer Style: Farmhouse Ale
Price: $14.99

Appearance:  Very Light, Unfiltered, Poured great with good head, Head settled nicely

Mouth Feel: Very smooth transition from initial contact to finish. Tony says it is like the movie "Victory" it's like giving you the ball and then you go like theese, and theese, and theese, and ggoooaall.

fruity but still bitter aftertaste. not too sweet like normal "farmhouse" ales

Aroma:  Fruity followed by a box of fruit loops.  A normal farmhouse ale.  Good but somewhat fruity.  Am I starting to be redundant yet?

Taste  Tony says it is like a starburst "it goes from a burst of fruity flavors to a bitter tail" kind of like the KC Comets.

Overall Rating:  Tony gives it a 4.0, Dooley gives it a 3.75 only because he doesn't care for the style overall.  I'm going 4.5.  It is the best farmhouse ale I've ever had.  I would drink this all of the time.  Something I don't often say about farmhouse ales.

On to the next one:

New Belgium Salted Chocolate Ale.  I have high hopes for this one.  As in Cypress Hill high hopes.

Brewer: New Belgium
Beer Name: Salted Chocolate Stout
Beer Style: Chocolate Stout
Price: $7.99 for a 16 oz bottle.

Tony is mad at the lack of head.  His opinion, not mine.  John smelled it and said "whoa".

Tony says its like a fermented chocolate pretzel.  Did anyone else miss Matt Holliday is playing for the US women's team?  How is that possible?

Appearance:  Dark but smooth.  Clear unlike the US women's attack.

Mouth Feel:  Carly Lloyd to Alex Morgan is the most beautiful phrase in the English language.  Unless you substitute on instead of to.  By the way, the beer is fairly bland on the tongue; OK.  abort, abort before this gets out of hand.

Aroma:  Chocolatatte.  Really.  Super chocolate.  And beery. But mostly chocloatette.  Tony says he can taste chocolate coming out of his nose after he drinks.

Taste:  Delicious.  I haven't had a chocolate stout in a while and I miss it.  I'm looking for the Youngs Double in the near future.  Tony is worried about the salted part raising his blood pressure.  But he has not stopped drinking at any point.  Smart man.  Tony says salt, chocolate whiskey to "it sticks with you at the... I don't know."  John says it tastes like a Syndney Leroux combines with an Abby Wambach header in the 90th minute.  Plenty salty with a little chocaloate at the end...  OK.  Enough.

Overall Rating:  John says a 4.35.  He has a very refined palate.  I say 4.5.   As in delicious.  Two great beers with another fantastic beer to go.  Tony gives it a solid

F it.  Alex Morgan just sent her ankle to the Southern hemisphere.  Not good.

On to the last and most obvious beer blow ever: the quintessential beer mix:  the black and tan.  Really.

Brewer:  Guinness and Bass.
Beer Name:  Black and Tan
Beer Style:  Black and Tan
Price:  $15 for the two six packs.  The best beer deal of all time.

Appearance:  A very tan bottom with a serious black top.  Think your last date.

Mouthfeel:  Perfection.  Smooth, easy finish.

Aroma:  Pure awesome.  Think nectar of the gods times ambrosia= HONEYPOT.

Taste:  A little bit of heaven poured on top of a whole lot of heaven.

Overall rating:  I say 5.0 x 5.0.  The perfect mix of beer.  REAL. PERFECT. BEER.

See you in a few weeks.  I love wintertime beer drinking.