Ho ho holidays
Excuses, excuses, excuses. I’ve been busy over the past few weeks. Here’s a brief re-cap:
12/14 — I got to tour the inner workings of Target Field. In a beer-related twist, we learned they have these keg rooms located throughout the bowels of the building and big thick conglomerates of tap lines that lead floors above to thirsty baseball fans above that will never relive 1987 or 1991 again. Hahaha that was mean… but true.
Cellar update, fall 2011
I have an uncle that lives in San Francisco. He was in town last summer and we got to talking about beer (weird, right?). He mentioned he had some Pliny the Elder (voted #1 beer in the country for the third year in a row by Zymurgy magazine) in his fridge he didn’t plan on drinking and that he would send it to me. Months later, just when I thought he’d forgotten, sure enough it shows up at my front door. Six bottles! I don’t think I’ve been so beer-happy ever. What a nice guy.
I’m trying to drink the Plinies in short order, as the bottles warn you not to age the stuff lest it looses it’s bright hop flavor, but I just can’t bring myself to gulp them down very fast. I’ll probably make my way through them by January or so. They just look so god damn good next to the rest of my growing collection. Surly Smoke, Darkness (2010-2011), Five, Dogfish Head World Wide Stout, Palo Santo Marron and a few others (along with cases and cases of homebrew). (more…)
Casanova Bottle Shop
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Brewing TV
This show BrewingTV was pretty influential in cementing my interest in brewing. I really dig the way the hosts Jake
Keeler and Michael Dawson combine light homebrewing tutorials with brewery tours and discussions with big names in homebrewing and microbrewing circles. It’s nice to have a fellow homebrewer, Chip Walton behind the camera shooting and editing the episodes as well.
For a while last summer they were outputting an episode every Friday but had to scale back to every other Friday in the fall. I’m sure they all have real jobs to attend to. Do yourself a favor and check the show out at the link provided.
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