pale ale

So, last Friday night I went to Bully Boy’s speakeasy party. It was pretty sweet. Let me explain. A couple months ago, the Bully Boys started dropping hints on Facebook and Twitter that they were going to throw an exclusive bash to celebrate their one year anniversary of the distillery. […]

The Bully Boy Speakeasy

7 Jun, 2012 in Boston / Drink tagged Belgian / Bully Boy / Bully Boy Distillery / cocktail / Night Shift Brewing / pale ale / rum / speakeasy / spkez / Trifecta / vodka / whiskey / white whiskey by squirrelfarts

mke-alehousebeerboard — Yet another travel series that I never seem to finish. This one tells the tales of our Milwaukee adventures in late March of 2012. We went there to do some serious drinking. Oh, and also Trevtastic got married. Yeah, some girl actually married that boy. But still, it was a […]

Mil-wacky in March, Part 2: Mil-wacky, Wis-cahn-sin

12 Apr, 2012 in Drink / Wisconsin tagged beer / Double IPA / IPA / Lakefront / Milwaukee / Milwaukee Ale House / Milwaukee Brewing Company / oatmeal stout / pale ale / porter / stout / The Wicked Hop by squirrelfarts

chi-library — Yet another start to a travel series that I never seem to finish. This one tells the tales of our Milwaukee adventures in late March of 2012. We went there to do some serious drinking. Oh, and also Trevtastic got married. Yeah, some girl actually married that boy. But still, […]

Mil-wacky in March, Part 1: Chicago

6 Apr, 2012 in Drink / Illinois tagged Chicago / Commodore Perry / Congress Plaza Hotel / Daisy Cutter / Great Lakes Brewing / Half Acre / IPA / lady friend / Mad Hatter / New Holland / pale ale / Poag Mahone / Willis Tower by squirrelfarts

whitebirch_happyshelf — Ah, the unspoilt expanses of granite-laden New Hampshire. The Lady Friend and I were up that way to visit Maggie the Thunder Kitten of Doom, and took the long way back to Braintree, by way of Hooksett, NH. It wasn’t exactly on the way; Hooksett is past Manchester on the […]

White Birch Brewing

29 Dec, 2011 in Drink / New Hampshire tagged ale / beer / Belgian / brewery / kitten! / lady friend / pale ale / Tripel / White Birch Brewing by squirrelfarts

sf01_harryslagunitasIPA — This here is Part Two of the Grand Caliventure of November 2011. For Part 1, make the clicking to here. Hold on to your butts, this is going to be a long one. The dawn did done diddly dawned Thursday morning as JJ and her husband scurried about the apartment […]

Soused in SanFran – Part 2: SFO D1

10 Nov, 2011 in California / Drink tagged 21st Amendment Brewery / beer / brewery / brewpub / cocktail / Fresca / IPA / JJ / Ke$hia Ho / lady friend / lager / Lefty O'Doul's / negroni / pale ale / San Francisco / Top of the Mark by squirrelfarts

mayflower_mill — Mini road trip! This weekend’s adventure was a trek down Route 3 to Plymouth, MA, for a tour of the Mayflower Brewery and some bar-hopping in downtown Plymouth. One of my former coworkers lives down there, and is always up for shenanigans in town, though I’m fond of saying that […]

Mayflower Brewery

18 Oct, 2011 in Beer / Brewery / Drink tagged ale / beer / brewery / British Beer Company / golden ale / IPA / Mayflower / Mayflower Brewery / Mayflower Brewing Company / pale ale / Plymouth / porter / wheat by squirrelfarts

syracuse_pumpstationtable — Ok, I’ve got to get this out of the way right now. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EcjWd-O4jI] That song goes through my head every time I think of the name “Albany Pump Station.” Pump it up A little more Get your body moving on the dance floor Have I started yet? I have? Ok. […]

‘CuseQuest Bonus Round: Albany Pump Station

15 Sep, 2011 in Drink / New York tagged albany / Albany Pump Station / ale / beer / Belgian / blonde ale / brown / cider / hefeweizen / lady friend / light / pale ale / stout / syracuse by squirrelfarts

braysint03 — This is Part Seven of an ongoing series chronicling the Maine Beercation of late July, 2011. To start at Part One, click here. Ow. Following a day of tours and tastings including Gritty McDuff’s, Allagash, The Maine Beer Company, the Great Lost Bear, Sebago Brewpub, and Novare Res, I awoke […]

Upta Potlind, Paht 7: Bray’s Brew Pub

11 Aug, 2011 in Drink / Maine tagged beer / Blacksmith Winery / Bray's Brew Pub / brewpub / brown / Casey Sage / fruit beer / lady friend / pale ale / red ale / wheat by squirrelfarts

sebagobeers — This is Part Five of an ongoing series chronicling the Maine Beercation of late July, 2011. To start at Part One, click here. I say See-bay-go, you say See-bah-go I had stopped by Sebago Brewpub a couple years ago while interviewing for a job in Portland. It was on the […]

Upta Potlind, Paht 5: Sebago Brewpub

8 Aug, 2011 in Drink / Maine tagged beer / brewpub / brown / citra / IPA / irish lad / lady friend / pale ale / Portland / red ale / Sebago Brewing Company / stout by squirrelfarts

mainebeertanks — This is Part Three of an ongoing series chronicling the Maine Beercation of late July, 2011. To start at Part One, click here. Zounds! What epic façade be this? Why, verily, ’tis The Maine Beer Company! Oh yeah. It’s all Taj Mahals and Versailleseses over here. Brewers truly lead lives […]

Upta Potlind, Paht 3: Maine Beer Company

4 Aug, 2011 in Drink / Maine tagged beer / brewery / IPA / Maine Beer Company / pale ale / Portland by squirrelfarts

justbeerint9kegs — I don’t remember where or when I became aware of Just Beer brewery, but it’s been in the back of my mind for awhile. Since we had nothing planned for the weekend, on a whim I proposed doing a trip down to the south coast of Mass. The Just Beer […]

Just Beer.

25 Jul, 2011 in Drink tagged beer / brewery / Cascade / IPA / irish lad / just beer / lady friend / pale ale / Sorachi-Ace / summer / wheat by squirrelfarts

hops — Irish Lad and I are comrades in beer. His counterpart, Wifey, is not a beer drinker, and has started to get irritated when we hang out, because he and I geek out with beer talk, for hours if left uninterrupted. We both enjoy a wide variety of craft brews, as […]

Beeriffic Brews

18 Jul, 2011 in Drink tagged beer / Berkshire Brewing / boobs / Boston Beer Works / citra / Harpoon / homebrew / IPA / irish lad / lady friend / pale ale / PBR / rye / Sierra Nevada / wifey / zero by squirrelfarts