SAVOR Beer Week was a great one in DC (and for this blog) and guest poster Chase had a great time at the event itself. One piece of swag ticket holders receive at SAVOR is a special collaboration beer for consumption at home. Chase was kind enough to share it with me, and I decided it was a beer that lived up the prestige of my 1,000th checkin on Untappd.

in case you don’t know, Untappd is a social networking beer checkin app that a few writers on this blog use religiously. In fact, it’s how Chase and I met Paige. I checked into my first beer on November 29, 2010 and number 1,000 came on September 12, 2012 (653 days), which means I averaged 1.53 unique beers per day. I’m the third member of the blog to reach 1,000 (Jeff and Bob are more prolific at checking in than am I), but I think it’s a pretty cool accomplishment nonetheless.

Some people have asked how high I hope to get, I don’t think that’s the point. I like to drink this delicious beer because I enjoy it and I enjoy the people I drink it with. So I guess there is no number, I’ll just enjoy the journey.

In terms of the beer, the label really does a great job explaining what Sierra Nevada and Boulevard Brewing wanted to create. So, I’ll leave it to them:

Situated at opposite ends of the California Trail, pioneering breweries Sierra Nevada and Boulevard have embarked upon a journey into the unknown, to a land where adventures in brewing and flavor await. Terra Incognita is, fittingly, an earthy beer, celebrating the unique terroir of the two locations. Beginning with Sierra Nevada’s estate-grown pale malt, and combined with amber malt, wheat, and malted wheat, it is then assertively hopped with Bravo and Styrian Goldings, dry-hopped with East Kent Goldings, and finally barrel aged with Brettanomyces in Missouri oak.