Padre

This picture is from the Padre Brewing Company on South Padre Island. From left to right: Raspberry Wheat, Stout, Pale Ale, Double Stout, Blonde Ale. Always good times with friends!

Couple of new brews

Some new brews that I tried lately:

Green Flash Brewing Company: Double Stout Black Ale

Afflligem Blond and Blanche Chambly

Who dat, who dat beer?

Was in New Orleans this past week, just a weekend with the guys for a bachelor party. Nothing big the guys wanted to play some good golf and just walk around and listen to music. This is the second time I have been to this city this year, love this city. I think it should be on everyone's must visit cities in the world. The city breathes culture, music and art.

Everyone talks about the good old Bourbon street but very few have wandered into the art district and the back roads with some good old local jazz bars (non commercial). Drinking is easy in New Orleans but again, this blog is not about that. It is enjoying beer, so I go to the hotel bar and ask for a local brew. I get Abita Amber beer, not bad at all for a beer that goes along with the local seafood options.

Special mention would be a restaurant called Galvez, amazing Spanish food. Patatas Bravas and Paellas made it a perfect night to paint the town red.

Beer for everyone

Happy labor day to all. The weather is amazingly great, want to be all by myself out in this weather and run. Had some great time this weekend. Things got started off on Friday as part of a farewell for a great coworker. It is always great to see good people find new opportunities. I do believe that if you contribute to the pie, the pie will get bigger (vs. only taking your piece of the pie).

Some beers I had this weekend:

Blue Moon (Seasonal): I am a big fan of Blue Moon. In fact so much that I  am getting used to it. It is becoming like my bud light (you do not have any other options, do you have blue moon). I hate to say that but things in routine do get boring! So I am glad that most brewing companies (at least the smart ones) introduce variations in forms of their seasonals.This is their Blue Moon Summer Honey Wheat and it is a great ale. This one comes without the fruit! 

I was just walking around for some grocery shopping and send up @ the Central Market. I will confess that this is the first time I went in there. I am not sure what was with that place but you feel like you are someone important. I guess that is why you pay the big bucks. You also walk down to the aisle where they have beer options and you feel like a brewmaster. You know the beers and you want them :) So I look and look and I finally narrow down to Honey Brown, as I try to walk away, I see something and I have this moment of enlightenment. I see a case (12 bottles) of Dark Session bottles (referred on my post earlier). It was again love at first sight (I know its ironic) but I like to say it. So there I bought it, headed over to a buddy of mine, introduced him this great brew and it was back to good times!

So enjoy this great weather my friends, and if you have a great bottle sitting next to you! Sip Up!

Drunken Moths

Moth … reminds you of passion, sacrifice (parwana - hindi), silence of the lambs. It is an intense insect, complicated! So if you are going to visit a place called Meddlesome Moth you kind of expect the place to be complex.

Moth has some great selection of beers, it is also one of the rare places where you will find Mead (honey wine).  I sat at the bar, looking for an in depth conversation of drafts and pale ales and lagers. Beer to me is more interesting than Wine. Beer has more colors than wine to start with. My evening started of with an interesting bottle of Session BlackFull Sail. This my friends is the best drinkable stout beer I have had in a long time. As cool as the beer is, the caps are even cooler, each cap has either Rock,Scissor or Paper pic, so after few beers you can start playing the game.

Second one of the evening was Rogue Dead Guy Ale – Yeasty, spicy and malty! Now I have Oregon on my list of places to travel, the amount of beers that are brewed in Oregon

Again, all in all another successful beer outing! Thanks to my friends for recommending Moth, the place is as interesting as the crowd ;)

What beer does Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg) drink?

So my beer-sensors went up as soon as I saw Social Network for the x-th time. As soon as you hear the White Stripes playing "Ball and biscuit" on the opening scene and you see Erika and Mark at the bar, my eyes hit the beer ... what beer is he drinking!  or is it a cider!


 




After much googling I was not able to find the answer, but my quest moved on. And I saw what really inspired the creation of Facebook. It was not the breakup or the code, it was Tuttle's Light Beer, which brilliantly is a fictional beer (although at first glance it reminds you of a Beck's bottle). So my quest still continues ... what beer was Mark Zuckerberg drinking?

The Keg is open ...

B-E-E-R … say those words and you know there is an occasion. Doesn’t matter if you are watching a game, reality show, playing cards, going for a night out with your dear friends or just in a mood to try that fresh drink out of the keg. 

My love for beer started as expected, first time out with friends, sitting by the beach, holding that bottle of precious London Pilsner … ah! the breeze and the taste. Over years beer developed, London Pilsner gave way to Khajuraho, Haywards. Then I moved to Singapore and I had the famous Tiger Beer. I will share more details about these incidents as the blog develops. 

For now, let me share what happened yesterday. I am now into trying new beer, be it wheat or pale ale or dark stout. So I went to this place in Dallas called Eno’s pizza (great pizza btw) – couple of beers I tried:

MothershipWit - one of the best beers I have had, yes this is organic wheat heaven my friends.

Magic Hat #9 - fruity and malty! Frankly speaking malty was the word that got to me. 

Left Hand Milk Stout – stout, dark and coffee … yum!

The day turned out to be great, cause then we went to The Londoner. It was a first time for one of my friend and so we knew what was on the menu – Chips and Curry. But the goal was still to try another beer and I had Black and Tan (Guinness and harp) on my mind, it was just that kind of a day, finished by Stella Artois.

All in all, I started my blog, spent time with my friends and drank some good beer! Cheers my friends ...