thirsty thursday | autumn maple
this is one of my absolute favorite fall beers. i searched for it as soon as fall beers starting rolling out, with no luck. we heard the only distributor in the state that carried the bruery’s beers had dropped them. i was pretty bummed. then, after resigning myself to the fact i may not get [...]
california, here we come {again}: san diego
so, the one advantage to traveling really freaking early in the morning, is that a little after 10:00am, we had landed in san diego. by 11:30am, we had our luggage, rental car & were well on our way to ballast point brewery. the first people in the small tasting room, we set ourselves up with [...]
thirsty thursday | pumpkin ales
it’s starting to get darker a little earlier, 300 lb men are giving each other concussions every sunday, i’m consistently having better hair days because it’s no longer 1000% humidity {except today. ick}, & last saturday it was actually cool enough to pull on a pair of jeans, which also deemed it ok to run [...]
thirsty thursday | fuzz buzz
before we got married, the mister lived in a dirty boy house. it had cat hair covered couches, squished ants on the windowsill {“to set an example for the others”}, an endless pile of dirty dishes on the counter, made worse because there was no dishwasher, an impressive selection of expired salad dressings & other [...]
thirsty thursday | belgian independence day
happy belgian independence day! this is how we’re celebrating.
thirsty thursday | ameztoi 2010 getariako txakolina rose rubentis
sold under the street name “liquid crack”. i’m not actually sure how you pronounce a word that begins with “tx”, but i do know that this rose is light, flavorful, effervescent & if you see it, you’re going to want to grab more than one bottle. retails for around $18.
thirsty thursday | dogfish head black & red
i’m not trying to rub this your face, since this is one of their limited release beers, but it’s too good to go unmentioned. dogfish head just makes weirdly awesome beers that are worth the trip to delaware to experience, or begging your family & friends to bring home to you when they’ve been in [...]
thirsty thursday | michelada
happy cinco de mayo! while everyone else in the free world is drowning themselves in syrupy sweet margaritas today, you’ll more than likely find me with an ice cold michelada in my hand. {especially since the great cuervo overconsumption of 2009. see also: my 27th birthday.} it’s a beer, with salt, lime & a variety [...]
thirsty thursday | dibon cava
this clean & citrusy spanish sparkler has been gracing our table quite a bit lately. unlike cheap crap, (see also: andre) most cavas undergo méthode champenoise: secondary fermentation in the bottle. this produces the perfect little pinpoint bubbles that don’t induce the killer after consumption headaches quite like the lower quality stuff. &? this comes [...]
thirsty thursday | dogfish head jin
dogfish head & it’s not beer? that’s right, friends. in addition to making awesome, sometimes weird beer, they have a distillery, which we discovered while making a pilgrimage to beer mecca visiting family on the delaware coast. & in true dogfish fashion, they’ve made it a bit different. the juniper flavor is still there, [...]
