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February 15th, 2010
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journal the beer
Scrolling through the ever-so-awesome Pinball Publishing blog, Coin-Op, I found these perfect little beer tasting notebooks made by BS Brewing, a Portland, Oregon homebrewing and extreme food collective. As I am prepping for my 2nd Homebrewer’s Tour coming up this weekend, I thought they would come in quite handy and ordered myself a 3 pack.
Get some for yourself, or the beer aficionado in your life. They are pure beer-related design-y goodness (and have YELLOW. I LOVE yellow). Not much is better than that.
33 Beers: Beer Journal Extraordinaire
1 comment January 19th, 2010
dream element
I always enjoy reading HDYGTFAJ from ReadyMade, and even more so now that I’ve been redefining my career this past year. It’s always so cool to be reminded that there are tons of different jobs and careers out there that you don’t even know exist, and that a lot of them are pretty fricking amazing.
One of my dreams is to someday open up a small hotel–we’ve even been toying with the idea of something along the lines of a British-style Inn, with a pub on the ground floor and guest rooms above. That would be incredible–beer, food, a fireplace and sleeping. Does anyone need more than that?
Read about how Greg Henderson got his FAJ opening up the Roxbury Motel in the Catskills here on the ReadyMade Blog. I’ll be day-dreaming up my Inn in the meantime…
2 comments December 15th, 2009
tightwad tuesday
Tonight was the 3rd installation of Tightwad Tuesday, an informal, off-the-cuff happenstance that came about after getting together to eat Mac and Cheese with friends, and realizing that spending $10-15 per person at a restaurant can be just as fun as getting together for those ridiculously priced meals from my employed days. Almost. But then again, better, since they happen more often!
So far we have eaten at MacBar, where we ordered 6 different small mac and cheeses and rotated them among the 5 of us, commenting on each. My favorite was the chipotle chicken mac and cheese–that was the only one I could have eaten the whole thing of! The rest were delicious but RICH. It’s definitely a place fit for sharing, so grab friends, order up and be fuuullll.
MacBar, 54 Prince Street, NoLita www.macbar.net
Week 2 was dinner at Bark Hot Dogs, not too far from my neck of the woods. We shared disco fries, killer onion rings and a growler of their special-made Sixpoint brew, the Bark Red Ale. That beer is de-lic-ious! So was my dog, which I got with 3 different types of pickles on top. I’d definitely go back and have another hot dog if I’m in the hood.
Bark Hot Dogs, 474 Bergen Street, Prospect Heights-ish, Brooklyn www.barkhotdogs.com
Tonight we hit up Baoguette/PhoSure in the West Village. I’d been particularly craving Asian food, so it totally hit the spot. We shared the Hue’s Summer rolls and an order of fried Spring rolls, then moved on to the Pho/Banh Mi. I had the Sloppy Bao sandwich, their take on the Sloppy Joe which was pretty darn tasty. I definitely want to head back to try the Pho, though it will never beat the Than Bros in Seattle. No one can–that place has truly ruined me for all other Pho, for the rest of my life.
Baoguette/PhoSure, 120 Christopher Street, West Village www.baoguettecafe.com
What’s next on the list??!
1 comment December 1st, 2009
new poland
Happiness was my dinner last night at Lomzynianka… This was one of our mainstays when we lived in Little Poland, aka, Greenpoint and we celebrated many a good time there, gorging on cheap but perfect Polish comfort foods, and drinking Zywiec beer bought in from the bodega on the corner.
The only bad thing about last night is that in my fervor and excitement I had to order ALL of my favorite items which left me in a state of Polish food mental slurriness.
I’ll take it!
(photo credit from Brownstoner and pls note that the prices on the menu are out of date, but still low!)
November 14th, 2009
brooklyn homebrew tour
Yesterday I was lucky enough to spend the day on a Brooklyn Homebrew Tour, led by the courageous beer aficionado Joshua Bernstein. I say ‘courageous’ as you’d have to be in order to lead 25 progressively drunker beer nerds throughout the borough of Brooklyn via subway, herding them into apartments to taste the projects of 4 different homebrewers.
It was an awesome time, and the beers were amazing. Here is a general list stolen from Julie, as I was too, uh, distracted to keep track of what was going down: Red Ale, Oatmeal Stout, Pumpkin Ale, a really delicious lemony IPA, Aventinus, Bourbon Vanilla Porter, an uber hoppy snappy IPA, Blond Ale, Rye IPA, California Common.
Best. Idea. Ever.
update: Read the article written by the Village Voice writer who came along on the tour, Beer Here! A Report from the Brooklyn Homebrewer’s Tour
1 comment November 9th, 2009
