A Day Off

So we had most of the day off minus the final meeting for the 3rd Annual DeLand Craft Beer Festival and a run to Jacksonville to pick up our copies of the posters for the ARK (Animal Rescue Konsortium) events that we have coming up.  A big "THANK YOU" to Mr. Dave at Champion Brands for printing off some great posters of some amazing posters of Boulder Beer products.

In the end, we stopped in at McK's and got stuck on some great brews.  To be fair, the brews they had could NOT be passed up.  In order, I ended up having the Ommegang Adoration and the Lagunitas Sucks on draft.  Rip had the McSorley's and Liefman's Oud Bruin. Unfortunately we also had to pass up some amazing brews to have those two each, but whattya gonna do??

After taking January off from drinking, I was shocked and surprised to find someone who still had the Lagunitas Sucks available as it has been a cult favorite since it was released.  The commercial description (as stolen from ratebeer is):

"This sad holiday season we didn’t have the brewing capacity to make our favorite seasonal brew, the widely feared BrownShugga’ Ale. You see we had a couple of really good years (thank you very much) and so heading into this season while we are awaiting the January delivery of a new brewhouse we are jammin’ along brewing 80 barrels of IPA and PILS and such every 3 hours. A couple of months back we realized that since we can only brew a mere 60 barrels of Shugga’ every 5 hours, that we were seriously screwed. For every case of Shugga’ brewed, we’d short 3 cases of our favorite daily beers. It’s a drag. This year, we brewed something that we think is also cool and brews more like our daily brews. The new brewhouse will help insure this kind of failure never happens again. It’s a mess that we can not brew our BrownShugga’ this year and we suck for not doing it. There is nothing cool about screwing this up this badly and we know it. Maybe we can sue our own sorry selves. There is no joy in our hearts this holiday and the best we can hope for is a quick and merciful end. F*@& us. This totally blows. Whatever. We freaking munch moldy donkey butt and we just want it to be all over... 
So this substitute beer is a ‘Cereal Medley’ of Barley, Rye, Wheat, and Oats…. Full of complexishness from the 4 grains, and weighing in at 7.85% abv, Then joyously dry-hopped for that big aroma and resinous hop flavor."


Delicious as expected.  Somehow reminded me of sitting in the Lagunitas brewery and having some of their delicious brew as fresh as could be.  Something about a west coast beer every now and then strikes me in the heart as a reminder of the difference between the wonderful experience of comparing west coast versus east coast hoppy beers.   


After drinking, we left and I got a ticket for running a red light by a fucking CAMERA!!!  More later.


So I dropped Rip off and hit DaVinci for a brew.  They had the Boulder Killer Penguin on draft and i had to have one.  I sat with Dan and planned out a fundraiser for the Animal Rescue Konsortium that involves auctioning off shots of the 1917 Old Baker Bourbon that NO LONGER EXISTS!!!  More to come on that, too!!  


Although I probably should go home at this point, I think I'll take my chances and hit some more bars.  Wish me luck.....