Beer Catchup I’m of the
Beer Catchup
I’m of the opinion that no one actually reads the beer entries, which is fine with me. I needed something to take the place of entering data into the beer database, and this has turned out to be it. It helps to set a particular beer memory into the framework, so that if called upon, I can bore perfect strangers at parties with my hops recollections.
Beer of the Night – Fraoch Heather Ale. The label has always put me off this beer. It’s very dark green and Celtic, but from a distance it always appeared something like a Food Lion brand generic to me, and I’m not buying anything from Food Lion. That whole ABC meat business aside, their stores are dirty, the service is deadeningly glacial, and I once saw fruit flies over the produce at the one location I had no choice in buying from for over a month. Any place I see drosophila melanogaster at for that long has lost my business for all time.
So, the label was an unpleasant association for me, but the beer is incredible. For me to actually review it right now would mean I’d have to go get a third one, and as tempting is that is, I’m too old for three beers on a work night.* It’s a beer you pour, and then sip, and sip, and then much to your surprise it’s gone. The second vanishes just as quickly. It’s the smoothest beer I’ve had in months, a gossamer dew of a brew.
That’s my review, here’s a real one.
Beer of Last Night- Monty Python’s Holy Grail Ale. Yes, I’m a sucker for labeling. But the beer is good. Just ask the cat.
*Not that I couldn’t handle it. I could handle it and eight more, buddy, then a case after that, and……and then I’d fall asleep and not wake up when the fire started, or the burglars broke in, or terrorists attacked. I’d die, but worse than that, I’d let my daughter down.
Parenthood is a terrible thing.