Between the weather, the postponement of the Inner Harbor fireworks until New Year's Day evening, and personal stuff going on in my household, this New Year's Eve was a bust. (And this comes from a Scot who pays more attention to New Year's than Christmas, on a personal level if not a commercial level.)
Last draft beer of 2008: Brewers Art Resurrection, at Parkside Tavern on Harford Rd. en route home from work that day.
Last bottled beer of 2008: Abita Jockamo IPA, at Hamilton Tavern on Harford Road, a half-hour after the previous beer. $2 a bottle, I'm writing about cheap beer for Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, and I had no idea Louisiana had a damned clue what an IPA was. Not bad. Not terrific, but definitely drinkable.
First beer of 2009: J.W. Lees Harvest Ale 1997 Vintage, at Max's Taphouse ca. 6:30 pm Jan. 1st. I couldn't have picked a better beer to start the year. Followed by sips of my wife's Otter Creek Winter Ale, a raspberry brown akin to the old Pete's Wicked Winter. (Left to right above: JW Lees, Otter Creek, wife.)
First bottled beer of 2009: a five-year-old 750 ml bottle of New Glarus Raspberry Tart, secured during a Midwest road trip prior to my wedding, opened after returning home from the fireworks, 7-7:30 pm Jan. 1st. Notes: it gets MUCH tarter and more bracing in its acidity with age.
Last draft beer of 2008: Brewers Art Resurrection, at Parkside Tavern on Harford Rd. en route home from work that day.
Last bottled beer of 2008: Abita Jockamo IPA, at Hamilton Tavern on Harford Road, a half-hour after the previous beer. $2 a bottle, I'm writing about cheap beer for Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, and I had no idea Louisiana had a damned clue what an IPA was. Not bad. Not terrific, but definitely drinkable.
First beer of 2009: J.W. Lees Harvest Ale 1997 Vintage, at Max's Taphouse ca. 6:30 pm Jan. 1st. I couldn't have picked a better beer to start the year. Followed by sips of my wife's Otter Creek Winter Ale, a raspberry brown akin to the old Pete's Wicked Winter. (Left to right above: JW Lees, Otter Creek, wife.)
First bottled beer of 2009: a five-year-old 750 ml bottle of New Glarus Raspberry Tart, secured during a Midwest road trip prior to my wedding, opened after returning home from the fireworks, 7-7:30 pm Jan. 1st. Notes: it gets MUCH tarter and more bracing in its acidity with age.
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Good stuff!!
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