BBQ at Ben & Beth's

Ben & Beth threw us a welcome back BBQ party at their apartment in Brooklyn this past Saturday. The food and beer, as expected, was astounding. Many folks brought interesting things for consumption, and Ben & Beth used some fresh ingredients from their garden right there in Boerum Hill.

The delicious things for the eating:

• Cristi's X-T-Rex-special taco bake and mystery cream cheese onion dill dip
• Ran-D Pant's special veganified stuffed mushrooms (Vegan but honey's OK, honey)
• Beth's "you want chunk? you got chunk/you want smooth? you got smooth" guacamole
• Dwarbi's fire-lambasted clove-and-other-stuff lamb grumfelds (served with Ben's grown-right-here-in-Brooklyn dill and cucumber yogurt sauce)
• Found-on-the-Front-Step's beef grumfelds (served with Dana's You'll Feel This Tomorrow spicy chipotle cat-sup)
• Black Bean Dip
• Randall's served cold Gestapo Gazpacho - the veggie killa strikes again
• Dave & Sabrina's Whatever-Was-Leftover-From-Last-Week-Don't-Ask-Why-We-Call-It-Dirty Dirty Rice Please see correction
• Moxie's boiled and grilled potato salad with blue cheese vinaigrette over backyard-fresh arugala
• My ma's salad as made by Dana and they both make it equally as good as the other always
• Ken's year-aged Crown Heights special pickled hot peppers pickoos
• Randy's whipped up in just one week! pickled carrots
  

There were too many beers to remember, but the massive bottle of Russian River Temptation, the 750 of Southampton Abbot 12 and the old-fashioned 12 oz Bell's Batch 6000 all stood out for me. Like Papa Beer, Mama Beer and Baby Beer. Jon's mojitos also rocked the house in Boerum Hill. Unfortunately, the growler of Rogue Impersial Porter I brought was off and tasted like carrot juice. Nasty carrot juice, though, not the good kind.

Tunes and topics of conversation carried on late into the night, and the next day I set off for the Lower East Side and the 7th Annual International Pickle Day Festival. Needless to say, the pickles were great, even if Davo, Randy and I had to wait on line for over an hour to get to Gus's. It was worth it.

Shots from the BBBBQ.
Thanks again to Ben & Beth and all who came and brought stuff. Great times.