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 | belgian independence day
happy belgian independence day! this is how we’re celebrating.
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 [...]
what we’re drinking: terrapin
{so fresh & so green, green} fresh, wet hopped goodness. all that means is these hops weren’t dried before adding them to the beer. you still get the familiar taste of hops, but without so much heady bitterness, making the beer taste, well…fresh. …& now i’ve got that outkast song stuck in my head. you [...]
what we’re drinking: sierra nevada
{look! i made a heart out of malted barley!} five beers, actually. kellerweis hefeweizen, the classic & most recognizable pale ale, torpedo extra ipa, 30th anniversary ale & bigfoot barleywine, from one of america’s oldest & most renown microbreweries… …all perfectly paired with creative south of the border inspired courses from chef charlie of dos [...]
what we’re drinking: brouwerji bavik
belgian, if you couldn’t tell by the name. petrus aged pale. a sour. that’s right, sour beer. we first tried it here & it was love at second sip…i needed to give it another try to get over the initial weirdness. not bad at all, just not the flavors i was expecting to get from a [...]
thirsty thursday: stone, dogfish head & victory
saison du buff: one recipe, three beers. {stone, dogfish head, victory…we don’t have a victory glass} seven years ago, the guys from stone, dogfish head & victory got together & formed the brewers united for the freedom of flavor, or buff. they held just one formal meeting. well, in 2010 buff stepped their game up [...]
