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Everyone should be pretty familiar with Stone Brewing Company out of Escondido, CA. They have been making fantastic beers since the late 90’s. I chose Stone Ruination IPA because it more or less lived up to its namesake. It had to have been during the summer of 2005 when I first had this beer. I was just beginning to get into craft beer and I fell in love. It’s big. It’s bold. It’s hoppy. It’s delicious. It was also the first beer I cracked open the night of my 30th birthday party last weekend so most importantly I REMEMBER it. Thanks for making great beers, Stone!

Everyone should be pretty familiar with Stone Brewing Company out of Escondido, CA. They have been making fantastic beers since the late 90’s. I chose Stone Ruination IPA because it more or less lived up to its namesake. It had to have been during the summer of 2005 when I first had this beer. I was just beginning to get into craft beer and I fell in love. It’s big. It’s bold. It’s hoppy. It’s delicious. It was also the first beer I cracked open the night of my 30th birthday party last weekend so most importantly I REMEMBER it. Thanks for making great beers, Stone!

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Beer #1! I’m all about standards. LOW standards that is. I had a taxi take me through the Taco Bell drive-thru the other day and while doing so I was hit with it. Beer #1 has to be Big Flats brought to us by the good people at Walgreens. Take it away Colbert…

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I’m 30 and Thirsty

So, we all hit milestones throughout life. Around 2 we learn how to walk. Around 12 we become insanely and intensely interested(Translation: horny) in the opposite sex(or same sex). At 18 the law tells us we can vote. At 21, the law tells us we can drink. Around 22 we graduate from college and enter the soul-crushingly disappointing “real-world.” Some of us get married. Some of us break up. Some of us go to Machu Picchu and beyond. Some of us pop out babies and settle in for the ride. Sonner or later 30 comes around which tends to be the age where society tells us we need to shape up and actually start doing laundry.

Pondering what to do in terms of my life at 30, I went through a checklist of what I should adjust, what I should change. Should I attend church more often? Should I work on getting my ass outta bed before noon on a Sunday? Should I find myself a cause and devote a large amount of energy to it? Nawww, eff all that noise. I scouted out myself a corner of the internet, I’m gonna drink 365 beers this next year and tell all ya’ll bout them

There will be themes based on style, region, time-of-the-year beers and hopefully along the way I can give props to all the great local beer people here in Chicago with the perpetual hope of a free pint or two along the way. I’ll try to talk about other stuff that interests me as well and if you are looking for beer reviews of “rich-smoky-nutty-grainy-lavendery-dear god I sound like a d-bag variety,” this ain’t the place.

I love you all very much. Thank you for feeding my narcissistic rage to gain attention. Comments, questions, suggestions are encouraged.