I nice Festbier by Bare Bottle I milked at Out Of The Barrel’s Oktoberfest
I am going through a too damn long segment of my life where I have to watch every stupid dollar, especially the ones for beer. It freaking sucks.
Also, during this time, I enjoy hanging in a bar with a good atmosphere, because I often have nowhere else to be.
This causes me a problem: Not enough money to have more than one or two beers, tops.
So I have to milk my beer. In other words, take as long as humanly possible to drink what’s in front of me.
I have found that taking a full sip is the key. For me, a full sip is when you drink enough to cover your whole tongue, hold it there a little, feel the burn of the alcohol, and drink it down. It’s in between a sip and a drink.
Now, yes, it takes some discipline. But I have found you can burn a whole hour with one beer. It helps if you have something to read or an interesting game to watch.
Interestingly enough, when I am with friends or just talking to someone, I tend to drink faster. Not sure what that is about. I think it’s because talking makes me uncomfortable and I keep drinking the beer, searching for a little comfort.
All I know is that I finish my beer faster than anyone at the table. Undiscipled drinking.
That said, my ‘alone drinking’ has gotten really good. I am up to two hours and just two 16oz beers. Praise me.
One of the beers I decided to get instead of a haircut. Great decision.
Even if you’re (considered) lame and go to a cheap (but super…) place to get your haircut, you’re talking $30 to $40 bucks. When you are paycheck to paycheck, that is too much.
Too much because $40 is three live drinking sessions at a bar for me. I can stretch three, maybe even four, visits to a bar with $40. That’s much better than a haircut. So it’s long hair for me until further notice.
A day off from work. Took my daughter around a bit. Had some In&Out for dinner (brokeass dad). Dropped her off and started a drinking session at local beer bar, Out Of The Barrel (again).
First was the “Sticky Bear” from Moonraker Brewing. A WCIPA. Enjoyed it:
Now I moved on to “West Coast Offense” from Cellarmaker Brewing (pic at top). As you might have guessed, it’s a WCIPA. It’s drinking really “hot” but it’s only a 6.3%…still good though.
Currently battling my beer budget to see if I can get myself one more beer.
The Best Beer Tasting Journals and Notebooks For Brewers and Beer Lovers
I have gathered what I believe are the best beer notebooks and tasting journals for a beer geek. Not just beer gifts for men, but a gift for a great note-taker who likes to have a beer.
Maybe you’re looking for a good gift for beer lovers or you’re a home brewer looking for a proper home brewing recipe journal. Or you want to save your notes about your beer and just want a new beer journal for yourself, I made this post for you.
While most people use Untappd for their beer journaling and tasting notes, putting pen to paper is still a thing us beer geeks do. In fact, we can do both. We’re multi-talented with our drinking and beer notes that way.
You can get really simple with your journal and have something for just writing down basic beer stats, or you can do some advanced sketch-notes like the one pictured at the top by Catherine Madden.
BTW, If you purchasethrough the links posted below, I may receive compensation (key word MAY). Let’s take a look at the notebooks and journals that are beer-worthy:
This is perfect for a home or pro brewer along with a pro home drinker that wants to document. It may not be specially made for a beer person, but it definitely can be adopted by one.
There are a ton of great notebook options and card prompts at Best Self.
The Leuchtturm 1917 Medium A5
This one has no particular beer things within. It is just a really solid notebook that you can make however you want to. Plenty of open (but ruled) notebook space to create and document all the beers or brewing notes your buzzed little heart desires.
It has two bookmarks and that 150 gsm paper – which just means ink won’t bleed through to the next page. I use this one for my Craft Beer podcast and it performs well.
There are 31 writable lines per page. And it’s durable. Slightly larger than a normal Moleskin style usually is.
It is running around $25.00, but check iton Amazon right now, to make sure.
The Moleskine Beer Journal
This is part of Moleskine’s “Passion” series of notebooks. Moleskine is my favorite brand of notebook to use, it would make sense to get this Moleskine Beer Journal:
It says on Amazon there is only six left. Not sure if that is a ploy to get you to buy it and then as soon as you do there is still magically one again. They don’t seem to be producing it anymore so this may be a collector’s item.
This is the one I would use for a beer diary. It MIGHT be too collectible to use (I am a nerd). I use a straight-up Moleskine notebook for my beer diary or beer brewing notes (if I were to get into brewing someday).
It has popped up on Bookshop.org too, but it comes and goes.
FEATURES:
Beer-themed shapes embossed on its cover.
Traditional Moleskine stickers but with a beer theme.
Five themed sections for tasting notes.
Section for notes about the place you purchased your beer.
Glossary for beer tips.
Has 240 pages and is large format size 5 x 8.25 inches.
The price in the past has been $20 to $25. But if it’s becoming this rare, that price is probably a steal now. At the time I am writing this it is $29.00 on Amazon.
I got one as a gift and opened it on my YouTube channel:
Using a simple blank Moleskine can work too if you like to set-up things yourself. Find a template that works for you and copy it.
