Stay at home weekend

It was a stay-at-home weekend as we celebrate my daughter's first birthday. In her honor I tapped a sixtel of Great Lakes Burning River. I still have the Sly Fox Saison Vos on tap as well.

This Burning River is a very good pale ale. I don't claim to be a beer expert or anything...I just know what I like and I like this beer. I had a house full of people who seemed to agree with me. It is a well balanced beer with plenty of hops and yet that malt comes through it all. Incidentally, I have had this beer in bottles and enjoyed it equally as well.

Hump Day Doldrums

Here I sit wishing I could get out and enjoy my favorite beverage but alas, I can not. But if I could, here is what I'd do. Go to Paoli and visit TJ's Everyday for a Founder's Red Rye followed by a Port Brewing Wipeout IPA. What a minute...Union Jack's on the Manatawny In Oley has Port Brewing Hop 15 DBL IPA and Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye. That's likeTJ's beers on steroids. Union Jack's it is! Wait a minute...Ortino's Northside in Zieglerville has Founders Breakfast Stout and Bear Republic Racer X. I guess it would be Ortino's Northside...if I was going out...but I'm not.

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After a long day of yard work and no time left to go out I settle for a Sly Fox Saison Vos which is currently on draught in my basement.

Saturday

Yesterday I stopped into Union Jack's on the Manatawny. I had a Left Hand Chainsaw Double ESB. It was very good. It tasted like a barley wine like Victory's Old Horizontal but less alcohol. I didn't miss the taste of the alcohol at all (at about 8% it was no lightweight anyway). Next I had a Duck Rabbit Rabid Duck Russian Imperial Stout. It was OK but I expected a lot better considering the good press this brewer seems to get. Actually, this beer tasted like the stouts I used to create as a home brewer. Which is to say, it was OK for a homebrewer...enough said.

Later we pulled into the parking lot of the Craft Ale House in Limerick but considering I had my wife and 3 kids in the car and the number of cars on the lot, we decided to continue down the road to the Sly Fox in Royersford. I had a refreshing Pikeland Pils and an equally refreshing Royal Weisse. The tuna steak sandwich I had was good.

I stopped in the Flying Pig in Malvern for a glass of lunch yesterday. I enjoyed a cask-conditioned Lagunitas Maximus. It was great although the pour was unconventional. I supposed in order to eliminate the waste from allowing the head to overflow into the sink, the server kept a pitcher there and added to the glass rather than pouring a drink directly from the cask. This resulted in a soap-bubble looking toupee on top. It still tasted great...just looked funny.