First 33 of 99 Beers For Trev

Front cover of 99 Bottles of Beer Notebook with beginning and end dates for beers 1 to 33

The 99 Bottles of Beer notebooks are split up by thirds, and last night I drank beer 33 to finish the first notebook. The lucky beer was the New Holland Lake and Trail Copper Lager from the Michigan Beer Adventure 12 pack.

Can of Lake and Trail Copper Lager by New Holland brewery

For this special occasion, I typed up some data from the notebook and put together a spreadsheet with charts and everything. While there is not really much worth analyzing, it was cool to see that even with less than half of the notebook being filled during MI Beer Month, I still drank over 80% Michigan beer.

Pie chart representing which states beers were brewed in with MI as the predominant state

Those beers are also predominantly IPAs and IPA varients. The only other style with more than one beer was the wit, which had two…

Pie chart of varieties of beer with IPA of different types making up the majority

It’s been fun so far logging MI Beer Month Beers and doing beer pairings. As July ends, I will be looking for another theme or challenge to keep things interesting, although I’m sure both Michigan beer and beer pairings will continue to be part of everything.

Map of north america with three circles on MIchigan, Florida, and California, but the map is labeled around the world
I didn’t make it around the world in these first 33 beers, so maybe I should be drinking a more global variety.