Blogging about an event that just happened yesterday??? What is this?! (I really don’t know what’s gotten into me.) Cleveland Beer Week 2021 kicked off on Friday, October 15, and we decided to go to two events on a blustery Saturday that finally felt like fall. The first was Oyster Fest, held annually at the…
The return of select Arcadia beers to the shelves was probably one of the greatest things that happened in 2020. To be fair, though, 2020 was, in general, not great. Perhaps you recall this. Anyway, Arcadia Brewing, out of Kalamazoo, Mich., closed suddenly in fall 2019, and in June 2020, Short’s Brewing (also out of…
Well, it’s been an age or so. Since I last posted anything on this blog, I birthed a child who is nearly three years old now, and my family moved from Oakland to Cleveland, and of course, a global pandemic changed everything. One thing that didn’t change, though, was how much the fella and I…
After our visit to Concrete Beach Brewery and lunch at Coyo Taco, we decided to check out one more brewery in the Wynwood district before heading to campus for a University of Miami basketball game. It was down to Wynwood or J. Wakefield, and quite honestly, we picked J. Wakefield because our car was parked…
I’m wayyy behind on beer content (more about that in a future post), but I still have notes and photos, so I thought I’d return to my Florida trip last November and post about another brewery that we visited. I mentioned in my Funky Buddha post that I spent a couple of years in Miami,…
Denver Beer Co is a fun, relaxed spot in downtown Denver that is open-air during the nicer months. JP and I had a nice afternoon there during the end of our quick stop in Denver last September, so we bought a few 6-packs of cans to help start our beer cellar in our new place.…
While we were driving through Colorado on our road trip out west last September, I was craving a sour peach beer. We stopped at a brewery in Palisade, Colorado, one night, and I was sure that they would have amazing Palisade Peach beer, and we’d sip it outside and watch the sun sink behind the Rockies.…
Cruz Blanca was our go-to spot when we lived in Chicago’s West Loop, and it’s one of the things I miss most since our move to California. The ever-changing taps of delicious brews, amazing Oaxacan street food (it’s a Rick Bayless spot), and half-off drafts on Sundays kept us coming back to our favourite bar…
I studied at the University of Miami during our back-to-back trips to the football national championship game in 2002 and 2003, so it was no accident that we were in Miami for the first Notre Dame-Miami football to be played in Miami in a couple of decades. We had talked about going for months, especially…
Ale Industries is one of the closest breweries to where we live, so I wish we really loved their beers! So far, the fella and I haven’t been blown away by anything they make, but their brewery is a good hangout spot, especially on weeknights after work, since it’s right by the Fruitvale BART station.…