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, [...]
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 [...]
wine wednesday: chappellet
{2006 napa valley petite sirah} “bold, ripe, rich and fleshy. seductive in its own way, showing tiers of wild berry and blackberry, with hints of vanilla and baking spice. packs in a wallop of fruit, yet it’s remarkably elegant and polished.” -chappellet tasting notes basically it’s a fabulous wine, as is anything made by phillip [...]
wine wednesday: schramsberg
{schramsberg 2002 j. schram} i hate to tease y’all with this, since the availability is pretty limited, but sometimes you just have to break out the good stuff. if you were to take a sip with your eyes closed, you’d think this was a fine french champagne, but really it’s the top of the line [...]
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 [...]
wine wednesday: plumpjack
i know we mentioned it already in a honeymoon post, but this chardonnay deserves it’s place on wine wednesday.{plumpjack 2007 reserve chardonnay} fermented & aged in stainless steel tanks, as opposed to oak barrels, this is pure, unadulterated chardonnay with crisp fruit aromas leading way to striking acidity. we picked it up at the winery [...]
