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
Category Archives: 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.
Veil x2
Lovely night for a couple of Veil IPAs.
