heaven and hell

okay number 1. i can't believe that jim or i haven't posted on this thing since september. not only that, all our fun beer travels are now lost... or i am just lazy and don't want to post about them. i can say that i might get better, but i doubt it. so until i actually do you can visit this page regularly and see nothing posted.

ANYHOW. christmas & beer... that's what i really want to talk about. apparently i have been very good this year. santa brought me a bottle of goose island imperial ipa which is fanfuckingtastic. it's so good i had to swear. it's so fruity and nice. i can't wait to drink it, but at the same time i don't want to drink it because i want to have another. dilemmas.

second good santa present... trip to vermont! we leave on wednesday. i am so excited. i haven't been to burlington in a couple years, plus not only will i drink tasty vermont beer but i might go riding at stowe too if the weather is right.

we'll be back from vermont on friday, then for new years eve we are heading up to willimantic brewing company for festive fun with fabulous ipa's and the option to get a vertical tasting of the whammer.

so yeah. we still like beer, and we still travel. we are just real lackidasical about blogging about it... oh wait, i almost forgot! last night we headed up to my favorite bar the moan and dove in amherst, ma. because they had the dogfish dinner on friday, they had lots of dogfish on tap and you could get a "heaven and hell" which was world wide stout and 120 minute "black and tan" style. i opted out of that one... because i was driving. jim got TWO! i got a cantillon grand cru and two cambridge brewing company kolsch... yum. when do i get to go to moan and dove again?

quickly... recap since september... what i remember.... NEBF in boston with a trip to the publick house right after and sunset grill and tap the next day (sunset has way too much going on there, but damn... i love the publick house). multiple thursday nights at eli's (we watched some girl drink ufo out of a growler white trash style). many many trips to my favorite cambridge brew house to drink the kolsch, the dopa, and even try their new winter/belgian style beer... i can't wait for the double esb to come out soon.

what else did we do? i don't remember. sorry. i'll try to get better at this. maybe. if i can think about it conciously.

1 day till vermont. woo hoo!