Ahem, multiple congrats?

One for the Backwoods Bastard and one for the early vacation start.

Typical soccer ref.

Typical soccer player response.

in my best Johnny Carson impersonation, "i didn't know that..."

do you have a list of these biodynamic vineyards?

I don't keep a list by growing methods, Saxum Vineyards is one off the top of my head but there are a bunch more, if I can remember them I will let you know.

DORIS the Destroyer

G&T.

found an unopened bottle of wine in my refrigerator.

http://www.spanishtablewines.com/products/2005-Malaga-Victoria--%252d-Jorge-Ordonez.html

trying to figure out if there is a reason why it was in the refrigerator since it hasn't been opened. can i take it out?

I think it is a dessert wine and you would want to drink it chilled. Someone better at wino science should tell you the right answer, but I think it would be better to just leave it in there until you drink it. If you haven't noticed it until now, maybe you don't need the space it is taking up.

is that anything like a dessert pizza?

We had predinner Vespers to help me forget my undeserved Yellow Card.

That's Malaga wine made with moscatel grape. It's a white wine, in the sweet side of things. Good for desserts with ice cream, strawberry, also cheese, foie... I haven't tried this specific brand, looks good.

more of the undisclosed GABF Gold winning beer on tap...after I finished this one, I was upgraded to a full pint:)...

/\ /\ /\ What Antonio said.

Since none of my bicycling crew has responded to my voice, emails or text messages I can only assume that like HCers at a national meet, they are lying in some bordello drunk as skunks and tomorrows ride will not happen.

So with apprehension and a bit of nostalgia for Christmas past, I am opening another bottle of Veuve Cliquot Brut. This one I found buried in the back of my locker and it has an inch thick layer of dust on it. Since this is not a vintage champagne, this may not be a good thing, then again if the widow gives me a good buzz and I don't fly off a cliff on my ride tomorrow morning, all will be good.

Cheers all!

well...despite the awesome treatment here at Tomlinson Tap Room, I may have chosen unwisely...

I was invited to Brugge where one of my buddies brought in a Mikkeller Sur Munk (their latest wild ale/sour) thst I've had on my radar for a couple weeks...then, Abe Benrubi of E.R./Parker Lewis can't lose came in...he's a silent partner...

oh well... had a decent coconut porter & lackluster ginger curry IPA here...

back home drinking a Southern Tier Blackwater Series choklat...not bad...would take other ST stouts over this...

http://www.spanishta...ge-Ordonez.html

drinking it...tastes like Skittles.

Edited December 24, 201114 yr by justin

As you should.........

http://www.spanishta...ge-Ordonez.html

drinking it...tastes like Skittles.

How's it compare to skittlebrau?

Bells Amber on tap

While wrapping presents. Damn good.

Also while wrapping presents:

2011 Fifty Fifty Eclipse aged in 18 year old Elijah Craig barrels. Hot damn. I want to be preserved in this stuff.

Also while wrapping presents:

2011 Fifty Fifty Eclipse aged in 18 year old Elijah Craig barrels. Hot damn. I want to be preserved in this stuff.

Approve....

I should have gotten one of those too...

I had a healthy pour of stagg to fend off this cold.

^Get that medicine up in there.

Elmer T. Lee.

Handy Firewater to clear up this stuffy nose per Dan.