Banana Bread Beer

I'm really not much of an impulse buyer - unless, of course, I'm purchasing beer. Since its friggin cold outside tonight, and I didn't feel like going anywhere, I figured I'd try a new beer to warm up and relax tonight.

Despite its small size, Liquor World in Porter Square has a decent sized selection of "good" beers. I didn't feel like perusing all night, so the first beer that caught my eye would end up in my glass tonight. The first one that jumped out at me was Banana Bread Beer. I'm not generally a fruity beer-guy, however, I LOVE banana bread. So I scooped up a bottle and trudged it all the way home.

As of this instant, its sitting in my fridge chilling out. I haven't opened it yet. I'll update this post once its in a glass and gleefully making its way to beer heaven - my stomach.

UPDATE: Yum. Smells just like banana bread. Tastes like banana bread. Its darker than I expected, but is also relatively light tasting. It reminds me of a Newcastle-type beer. I dig it.

Bachelor Approved!

Sometimes...

... ya just really need a beer when you get home from work. Today is one of those days. Meetings from 10:00 until 5:00 really drain me -- mentally.

Yay Beer.

Holy Hangover Batman!

I can't drink like a 21 year old anymore. I seem to forget that every once in a while. I was on a mini pub crawl with my friends yesterday. We started the day around 3:00pm and ended, well, I don't even remember what time.

I do know, however, that today was a complete loss. Hungover with a nasty headache, I pretty much didn't move off the sofa until 6:00pm today. Thank goodness the Discovery Channel had a bunch of cool shows about ancient Egypt on all afternoon.

Back in my college days, I could stay out until 2:00am, close out the bar, hang out with friends until 3:00am, then get up and go to class the next day. Nowadays, it takes me a day or two to feel normal again after a crazy pub crawl. Ugh.

Tonight's Beer - Old Chub

Tonight's beer is a delicious Scottish Style ale IN A CAN! Its called Old Chub and is from the Oskar Blues Brewery in Colorado. Its not just any can, its a totally cool looking can. Yeah, I'll admit it - I bought it because the can looks cool, but its also got a totally cool name. (but the beer is excellent too).

La Fin du Monde

No, its not the end of the world. Its the beer. Unibroue from Quebec is the bomb. (However, their English web site is a fixer-upper)

Friday Night Follies

Its been awhile, be we all finally went back to J.J. Foley's Friday night. What a great bar. We've been going there for close to 7 years now - and its still the same great place. Mr. Foley was there again, and very welcoming and tolerant of our innocent drunkenness.

We all met up after work - around 6:30 or 7:00 and the bar was packed. There are so many of those financial type people who crowd the place and drink crap like Coors Light. The good thing is, they usually clear out by 8:00pm - since they're all a bunch of wussbags.

My plan was to have some after-work Guinness (the Guinness at Foley's is the BEST in Boston) and then head home early and get a good night's sleep. Oh - was I wrong. Every time I tried to leave, my friends got me another beer and made me stay. Its so easy to get me to cave into peer pressure for one more beer --- it's Friday night -- why not one more beer? So, around 12:30 and about 6, or 8 Guinness, we finally managed to leave.

And so, the night ended, correct? No friggin way. You and I know that when Friday night gets started it doesn't end. So, in our infinite wisdom, a few of us took a cab back to (guess where....) the People's for a nightcap. Finally, just before 2:00am and about 10 beers (rought estimate) into the night, I finally started my journey home. And this is where the follies begin.

1) Walking to get a cab, I slipped on the ice and sprained my knee
2) Left my gloves in the cab
3) Couldn't find the correct key to open the front door to my apartment building, so I walked up the iced over driveway to pee behind the building

Crazy shit always happens in threes.