I've decided to give you folks a run down of my weekend because, per usual, it was pretty beer centric. Friday night we dropped the kids off to their respective "other parents". (The husband and I have no biological children together. All of our children are from previous marriages.) Then we head out to pick up some friends and then go to "Ashley's" in Westland, MI. (http://www.ashleys.com/) They have a pretty decent selection of beer and some tasty foods too. The atmosphere is a little more bar-like than I'd ideally choose, but it was all in all a good experience. The husband and I ordered the rattlesnake fries which are spicy and cheesy and zing, with jalapeño ranch dipping sauce - very yum. The man had some Jolly Pumpkin something or other (sorry, I totally do not remember which one) and he said that the spicy tang really complimented the sour quality of his Jolly Pumpkin beverage. I had my favorite Atwater treat, the Vanilla Java porter and it was particularly smooth and rich in contrast to the bite of what we were eating. Moving right along to dinner we had a DELICIOUS Greek pizza. Feta, pepper rings, the works. OhMyGoodness it was good! The husband ordered a Midas Touch (DogFish Head) and that was a favorably interesting taste, and I got a Mackinaw Fudge (Arbor Brewing Company) which was tasty but not much compared to the Cream Stout 2 (Dark Horse) that our friend from across the table let me sample. :-) We turned in a little earlier than we may have because we were both already exhausted from a full day. But taste buds were tickled and we will likely return for more good times.
Saturday night it was time to brew again. I'm not sure what he was making but it smelled so hoppy I could barely take it! Some IPA or other with one kind of Hop. This is his first entirely original recipe so it will be interesting to see how it turns out. He used cheese cloth over a colender to filter the wort into the primary and it actually caught a ton of hop goo (very technical terminology that hop goo is). We also cracked open the recently bottled oatmeal stout which is turning out really nicely. It's not quite carbonated yet but it's bitter yet smooth and chocolatey and you can really taste the espresso. We had another bottle of the Vanilla/ Coffee Porter and a taste of the Meade, it's all shaping up very nicely. I took a couple of pictures and this is my Saturday night in 30 seconds... The thing is, the video looks like crap now that I've uploaded it. It's too pixely on you tube, it's actually kind of neat when you can see the crisp pictures. I will work on a solution.
Cheers!
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