Category: Beer

I Am So Tired Of Taking Pictures Of My Beer

Blind Pig IPA from Russian River Brewing
I had to push myself to take this

Everything is fucking exhausting. Including taking pictures of my beer.

Are we not all sick of it?

Sick of Instagram. Sick of posting a picture with our Untappd check-ins?

I know I know, you might be saying:

“My guy, you don’t have to take a picture! You can just open a beer and drink it and not tell a soul. Or check-in your Uniques on Untappd, without a picture.”

Yes yes, and I do that.

But then… the Untappd check-in is super boring without a picture.

And I can’t get more followers on Instagram by NOT posting pictures.

So pictures it is.

I just wanted to rant that I am tired of it, is all.

Music I’ve Been Listening To With My Beer: The Mountain Goats “Bleed Out” on Cassette

Can of “Taking It Easy” IPA from Original Pattern Brewing with a tape (all red) of the Mountain Goats “Bleed Out” cassette
Original Pattern Brewing’s “Taking It Easy” paired with “Bleed Out” cassette from The Mountain Goats

I don’t know where someone clued me into the Mountain Goats but they did. I am not gaga from them, but they are cool.

I liked the new song “Training Montage” enough that it motivated me enough to buy the tape of their new album “Bleed Out”.

It’s a fun red:

Kinda rad “Bleed Out” cassette

I drank an Original Pattern Brewing SIPA with it called “Taking It Easy”. It was a nice beer and I did what it told me and took it easy while I listened.

I recommend both things. ✌️🍻📻

The Absolute Perfect Way To Shotgun A Beer

I have no confidence in myself to shotgun a beer or pretty much anything else.

And yeah, I may have heard or seen all of these tips performed before.

But @ChefSaraBradley illustrates it so perfectly, I now think I may actually be able to shotgun a beer.

Thank you, Sara, for the cleanest tip on how to shotgun a beer, ever.

This Double Strata From Alvarado Street Made Me Buy The New Interpol Album

Double Strata Alvarado Street Brewing
“Double Strata” from Alvarado Street is good but it also causes you to spend money

I am having just the right kind of buzz right now. The right kind to order a new record that I can’t truly afford but bought anyway.

While drinking the excellent “Double Strata” WCIPA from Alvarado Street Brewing (and after a “Booming Rollers” from Modern Times), I was reading this music newsletter.

He mentioned the new Interpol album and remarked how the band has gotten better over time for him. A feeling I share.

That coupled with a beer buzz pushed me to go and pre-order “The Other Side Of Make Believe”.

So now, $36.37 later, I will be having their new record show up at my door right about the time I totally forget that I ever bought it.