What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3507

Thanks for breaking the seal on WBAYDN this morning @Roguer I'm drinking
Siera Nevada Hoptimum. I'm playing Backgammon in my Hugh Hefner style
smoking jacket and just like John Henry, staying one step ahead of the machine



A little tribute to the late Alan White

 

Thanks @Roguer for getting us going. Tasty stuff, cheers all.

 

Thank You @Roguer for opening up the VB. Beautiful day here and starting with a Guinness.



Cheers Everyone and have a great day.

 

Gentlemen,
I came back after many days of overwhelming emotions, never felt in my lifetime ... By framing work commitments up to inconceivable times, to give me emotions that, for me (and my Romanist friends), are worth a lifetime ... .

But let's go in order ...
11 May: transfer from Rome to Bologna where my basketball team made the Eurocup Final (the second most important European cup, whose victory gives access to the most important of all) ...
Pre-final of the highest level at a renowned pub / beershop in Bologna, where among the excellent beers drunk I put some bottles of the highest level uncorked:






-very delicate, in extraordinary shape



Immortal triumph and return to the Euroleague after 14 years ... We, who have won two, the last of which in 2001 with this guy here, who maybe you have heard about there too:



Virtus - bursaspor 80-67




Roma tifa Virtus (my banner)

 

This one is pretty amazing.

 

Hey BAs
Happy sunny Saturday - beautiful day here on the north coast - did a nice hike already and will be taking some planters to family graves later this afternoon for M-day etc....



2020 Lagunitas Willettized.....yum

 

At Duangrats, a Thai restaurant, drinking BeerLao Dark from Laos with Papaya salad.



Cheers!

 

After this great victory, 3 days ago in Albania, in Tirana, I saw with my own eyes something that you dream of, but that you are almost sure that it will never happen
Instead Yes...
As Roma champion!













Obviously, while I was there I tried to drink as many local beers as possible ... but always industrial beers, those for mass consumption ... similar to our Peroni or Nastro Azzurro, on which I have read good reviews also above, but I invite everyone not to be influenced by the fact that they come from afar and that perhaps they are proposed for Italian excellence, because they are not.
They are exactly the rulers of the market against which the artisans have to carve out crumbs of the market with the quality of their handcrafted products which, however, has enormously higher costs.







In the meantime I also participated in a local craft beer festival, the SPRING BEER FESTIVAL (16-19 May) ... which I will report on shortly by stealing more space with photos and a few lines on the beers that I have pinned there at the moment .
I will also catch up with the database ... but I see that it has been a beautiful, wonderful month ... from a point of experience of emotions, one of the most beautiful of my life
But also challenging ... Especially when you are no longer 20 years old ... It's wonderful, but exhausting ...

Sláinte !
Cheers !
DAJE FORTE !!!

 

NBW cross-post. This beer is a very boring disappointment. What is not, is Top Gun: Maverick! Go see it on the big screen!

 

Sharing beers with my brother-in-laws today.

 

Another with Drunken Noodles, Eggplant and Scallops with Bok Choy.



Cheers!

 

Cheers Beer Fam.

Starting off the weekend right. Love this bottle opener, and also watching Obi-Wan.

Russian River Brewing “Blind Pig” IPA.

 

Cross post with the New Beer Weekend #97 Thread.

Oxbow Brewing Company Barrel-Aged Farmhouse Pale Ale



Full hot takes linked here. Long story short, this is a very good saison, really digging it.

1995-1996 is the years for this weekend. Here are two played the first two hours.

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight

John Hiatt - Cry Love

 

Drinking Hop Valley Mango Stash.

 

PetSkull Brewing in Manitowoc, WI, finally canned some of their beer. I was going to review this beer for NBW, but it is better I don't, after a few sips. I do love the brewery, especially the owner/brewer Paul Hoffman. He is a fellow heavy metal fanatic. Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera is one of the greatest heavy metal albums ever recorded. I appreciate the inspiration for this beer!

 

Clown Shoes A Fistful of Unidragon bourbon barrel aged RIS

 

Kind of a muggy. unsettled day today - supposed to rain and possibly get some t-storms as the day progresses. Having a Ballantine XXX at the moment.