I do enjoy stopping by the Cask for the semi-regular Courtesy Desk popup.
Tracy’s shop is stocked with great tunes worth checking out.
Courtesy Desk Popup
beers
Making lemonade
Stuck in the Phoenix airport long enough to miss all of my connecting flights home, but I’ll land in Charlotte too late to do anything.
Not that I need a reason to have a cold one and a sandwich, but this’ll do.
A classic for recording last night
They don’t all have to be dry-hopped collabs.
Throwback
It was a lot of fun to get out with the old tennis guys last night. We joined a new club this year and I have been spending most of my time playing there. Thursday Night Tennis is still play for a couple of hours and then drink beer and hang for a while, and I’m glad for it, but the Ridgetop game always has bigger beers at the end and I’m moving a step slow this morning.
Now I have to decide if I’m going to play in the heavy heat this weekend.
Weekend
Long weekend for me started with some light yard work and now a throwback IPA from Triple Crossing.
Setting myself up for success, as always.
Beer catchup
Reality Approaches from The Veil is a new IPA from them, brewed to celebrate their 6th anniversary.
The unusual grain profile (naked oats and raw wheat) creates a very different Veil IPA than I’m used to. I liked it.
Other Half Poetry Snaps is a tasty rice lager. Using rice as the grain really lightens the whole thing and it’s a perfect late spring/early summer beer.
Like they say in the description, it’s 100% super crushable.
Other Half Sixth Man Lager is in the more traditional lager style. You can see that it’s darker than the rice lager and it definitely has more weight.
I wouldn’t go all the way to crushable, but it is very, very drinkable.
Hinode Rice Lager from Shōjō Beer Company
I do love a rice lager.
Late, late lunch.
A Foam Brewers IPA at Mekong is juuuuuust right.
Fresh Friday Night Can
Veil x2
Lovely night for a couple of Veil IPAs.
