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.

Spring Beers Are Still Haunting Store Shelves

We always say it on the Perfect Pour, “Check your dates.”

A recent visit to the grocery store revealed a five-month-old six-pack of Firestone Walker “Hopnosis” IPA. Not even close to the worst beer date I have seen in the grocery store. But still.

Five months is too long for me anymore, if it is a hoppy beer. Sierra Nevada’s Pale Ale is the only one I would buy at that date or later.

So really this is just a warning. I think there are a lot of early Spring released beers still on the shelf. So make sure to check. your. dates. ✌️🍻