Thank goodness for Beer Distributors. On my way to the train last night I stopped at the Whole Foods Beer Room on Houston and purchased a few hard-to-find brews I’ve been searching all over for. When I got home dessert was some stinky bleu cheese, honey, almonds, raisins and a bottle of Castelain Biere de Garde. Dinner was a bit of roast turkey but come on, French beer and cheese? You can’t beat that.
Just as I was cracking open my midnight snack, a Stone Cat Blonde Ale (a bit on the harsh side by satisfying nonetheless), I came across this article. All I can say is wow. What people would do for some booze and meat. I wonder what kind of beer it was anyways.
Way to go little guy! All it took to save your from your hot, steamy death was 140 years of bottom-feeding life.
I just got this email from the Blind Tiger Pub in Manhattan:"...here is a little good news... The Blind Tiger's Night of the Imperials will be held on Wednesday Jan. 21st at 4:00PM. I haven't nailed everything down, but I can say that we have at least 17 imperial beers and some amazing cheeses to match...details will be coming soon!"
How lovely! Wednesday is my day off. Imperials here I come.
Every night I brave the weather and walk my dog for a good 30 minutes. As the weather gets colder, it gets more and more difficult for me to bundle up and head outside. Tonight I figured I would utilize the Beer of the Month Club membership my sister got me for Christmas and give myself a liquid jacket. Tonight’s instant jacket is a brew provided by the Pennsylvania Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, PA, Penn Gold. The Penn Brewing Co. does authentic German/Bavarian styles of beer according to the Reinheitsgebot beer purity laws. Lately I’ve been into sampling the pure and original beers responsible for the styles we have today and Penn Brewing is a great American company to delve into the old European standards. Penn Gold is a Munich style Helles, an extremely pale Pilsner that is the unofficial session beer in Bavaria today.Cheers.
This evening I went to a restaurant in Union Square called Republic. It’s a cozy little noodle bar that divides their menu into broths, noodles and vegetarian and serves them in giant, white porcelain bowls. Anyway, my reason for dining out was to meet up with the CityDusk people and discuss events and how everyone was doing. As I was slurping down some Vietnamese noodles and thinking how nowadays it is essential for people to know how to operate chopsticks unless they want to look like ignorant dinosaurs, I was told that my beer and bowling event will be featured in next weeks Time Out New York as one of the not to miss city pick events. I almost choked on my Sierra Nevada but it was worth the near death experience.Check out the link and be convinced to COME TO THIS EVENT!
