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…
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,…
Our last stop on our Napa/Sonoma trip was Horse & Plow. Our bartender at Sonoma Cider recommended it, and since it was mostly on the way home, we decided to make the short detour to check out one more spot and prolong Sunday Funday. Horse & Plow makes both cider and wine. I don’t know…
All right, I know that Sonoma is a cidery, not a brewery, but I love craft cider as much as I love craft beer, and I tend to weight them equally if the cider is good. So, the fella and I decided to head north from Sonoma, CA, on our recent wine and beer weekend…
I cannot say enough good things about our experience at Mad Fritz Beer. It was unlike any other brewery visit I have ever experienced, and the fella and I were inspired enough to buy one of every beer that we tasted. Mad Fritz is run by Nile and Whitney, who started out as winemakers. Nile…