It’s nice when staying the hell home gets “rewarded” with a badge.
“Congrats, nerd, you did a lot of drinking at home this year!”
The beer that put me over the top:
Wouldn’t you think this Modern Times & Humble Sea colab would be a Hazy IPA of some sort? Yeah me too.
Except it’s not. It’s a fucking Hazy Pilsner.
I don’t hate it or anything, just not what I was expecting and I think that was on purpose. Sneaky little bastards.
Every beer person on Instagram is guilty of one or two or all of these.
@hophappyblog Is this heaven…or a beer blogger’s Instagram ?##ontariocraftbeer ##craftbeer ##craftbeertiktok ##beerblogger ##craftbeerlife
♬ White Woman’s Instagram – Bo Burnham
My favorite is the “staring off into the corner” look so often used – WHAT IS OVER THERE AND WHY CAN’T WE SEE IT!?
*TikTok by @hophappyblog
I dunno if you’ve been watching the NBA Finals with the Phoenix Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks but a story within the series is the “Deer District” outside the Buck’s arena.
It’s pretty much 20,000 + of mostly 20-somethings, partying and watching the games on big screens outside.
ABC loves to cut to the Deer District during the games and even pre-game, like with this clip:
Did you see the two dudes timing their beer drinking as the camera goes by? Cool except, as a beer nerd I want to know what they’re drinking.
Their hands unfortunately covered up the beer label. You can glimpse a little bit but not enough. It doesn’t look like a beer I recognize.
So, are there any beer places by the Bucks arena?
Let’s take a look at the area around the arena and see if that gives us any clues:
Do you see it? Good City Brewing. That’s right there, man.
A quick check of their Instagram reveals:…
Ohhhh yeah that’s gotta be it; Home, a Lager from Good City.
Cool, glad to see Indie Beer on National TV. Keep having fun, Deer District, and Go Suns!
I was ranting about this yesterday on the Perfect Pour: Why don’t more taprooms carry bags of ice!?
When I make a run to a brewery I usually have an ice-chest with me. My fridge doesn’t crank out enough ice to make a relevant amount so after I pick up my beers from the brewery, I then have to stop at a store and buy ice.
One too many stops for me – I’m lazy.
Why don’t taprooms have bags of ice for sale? I supposet there must be some but I have not seen nor heard of this. Not even in bottle shops.
Matt on the show pointed out he would give you some ice from their machine at Tioga Sequoia Brewing if you asked but I don’t want to do that. I want to buy it right then and there with my beers.
Sure, I will totally forget to buy the bags of ice at a brewery that started carrying ice, just like how I walk out of a grocery store forgetting the ice. But it would be nice to know I could have gotten the ice at the taproom.
Normalize bags of ice at breweries!
ICY SIDE NOTE:
There have been times (maybe now still) when you could buy the perfect-for-drinking, Sonic Ice, in bags from your local Sonic joint. It would feel like a misuse to put them in an ice-chest but it might work for the road trip with a brewery stop attached.
