Had to switch to a Smile to match the pumpkins 🎃
#omnipollo NOA Pecan Mud Cake #stout
Bittersweet chocolate, thick body with coffee and nutty notes and a cocoa finish.
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Had to switch to a Smile to match the pumpkins 🎃
#omnipollo NOA Pecan Mud Cake #stout
Bittersweet chocolate, thick body with coffee and nutty notes and a cocoa finish.
Looking like Halloween? Too wet for a fire so maybe some indoor S’mores
#BoulevardBeer More S’mores BA #stout
Bleh, left it too long after its best by date. Thin body, too sweet with graham and marshmallow and a sharp edged finish
The oak table refinished
The To Do list diminished
All done with the fun
Until my wife comes up with the next thing that is likely to be a multi-month project….
#firestoneWalker Collective Choice 2024 Amburana BBA #stout
Cinnamon, chocolate, coffee, bitters. Yum!
This nickel sized spider spun a two foot diameter web anchored to our spruce bush on one side and by a 15 FOOT stringer to the edge of the roof. I have no idea how he made that gap. He will live long and prosper!
Holy signs of fall Batman! I hate to say it was cold this morning but DAMN it wasn’t warm (51F)
#greatSleepingWeather
Bring some heat with #dragonsMilk BBA #stout
Always a favorite, Roasty malt, chocolate, coffee, barrel notes, a sweet touch of vanilla, and an oaky bourbon finish.
It’s #stouturday so when in Rome…errr…Missouri…oh MN…
#boulevardBeer Whiskey Barrel #stout
Dark oaky whiskey lead, body of chocolate and dried fruits, a slight bitter finish with a hop note
Closing #stouturday with dessert
#southernTierBrewing Tiramisu #stout
Coffee, dark drying cocoa, cinnamon, the classic Tiramisu flavors. Almost a year past its “best by” date it’s still tasty.
Just a taste of this one for me, the rest is for science!
#BreweryOmmegang Three Philosophers Nitro Quad
Destined for chicken stew! My wife found a recipe
Creamy smooth nitro with a malty tart cherry body, we’ll see how the flavors work together
The owl was her idea
The Deth was mine
Expect for that goofy haircut
Everything is VERY fine
#revbrewChicago Deth’s Tar
Favorite! Deep rich flavors of chocolate, vanilla, dried fruits, brown sugar, coffee, oak, bourbon
#itsAlwaysStoutSeason #stout #makePoemsGreatAgain
Cccccold? High temp barely 60F, long sleeves, this is bananas (but typical).
Perfect weather for #gooseIsland 2023 Bananas Foster bourbon barrel-aged #stout
Rich with cinnamon, vanilla, chocolate, bourbon and banana. Lasting tingle on the finish, well aged 2023 vintage. Warming!
Didn’t think I drank quite that much of this #perennialArtisanAles Vanilla Abraxas yesterday… I blame my wife for excessive “a little tastes” 😎
Not one to leave overnight - gone flat. Finished it anyway.
Cut some wood and man it got warm quick. Another sunny 82F day, walk delayed until later.
Crouched inside to cool off and now in the shade on the patio with a #sigBrewing Coal King oatmeal #stout
Smooth with a creamy body and roasty malt flavor. A hint of black licorice on the finish.
My wife bought one of those Dubai chocolate bars for $8. It was good but not $8 good.
Of course, I’d bought a can of #abominationBrewing Dubai Chocolate Midnight Snack to compare!
Rich cocoa chocolate with a dry mouth feel, nutty background and a curiously flat body. A little sweet, a little bitter on the finish.
Made it to Friday, and the good beer(tm) is here at home!
#firestoneWalker 2025 Ancho & Fig Parabola BA #stout
Big figgy lead, bourbon and chocolate body with an oaky hints and a lasting chili punch on the finish.
Windy, cooler, and BRIGHT sunny day today. Perfect time to crack a 2024 #surlyBrewing Darkness imperial #stout
LOTS of hops in the 2024, overpowering the usual dark chocolate and coffee notes, adding more cherry and fruit to the finish. Not my favorite blend, but I’m not complaining 😎
Nothing else to do this evening but watch space documentaries on PBS - the Apollo program had some super massive hardware!
And I’ve got #revBrewChicago Super Massive Café Deth!
Super massive coffee and so smooth, rich and roasty with chocolate and bourbon notes and an oaky barrel finish.
I made a Collective Choice to crack open a #firestoneWalker bottle for #stouturday dinner.
The 2024 is Amburana for the win! Fabulous cinnamon and vanilla layers over coffee, chocolate, and toffee lead to a boozy bitters finish.
Chances of sunburn ☀️ in this beautiful weather.
But Snowburn? 💯 chance of that. #riverNorthBrew with dinner, a #wheatwine ale
Light yet snappy when cold, let it warm for notes of honey and orange zest and a boozy spicy finish with a caramel bite.
The “Unique WiFI Networks in DB” counter on @WiGLEnet@defcon.social is gonna roll 2 BILLION tomorrow.
Holy #wigleKittens Batman, that’s a LOT of #wifi
#allTheWifi #wiglenet #wigle #wardrive @ArkFromWiGLE@defcon.social
Beautiful day for the Uptown Art Fair by Lake of the Isles. A hearty mile walk each way to parking, self-inflicted though their maps were a bit deceptive…
Oh well, there’s #beer by the music stage. A #pryesBrewing Miraculum IPA is not my usual but fits nice on a sweaty day. Malty and citrusy, light fare.
Also representing for @defcon@defcon.social at #uptownArtFair
Best shirt spotted:
I like my city
Like I like my whiskey
No ICE
{dude said he got it at Art-a-Whirl, another local festival}
Tasty pasta and chicken for dinner made by my wife. What’s for #dessert?
#equilibrium Triple Stacked Coconut Cake imperial double pastry #stout
If you expected something subtle, think again!
Pours like motor oil, thick like chocolate syrup with extra vanilla. Not so much cake as topping. Heavy duty and very sweet, not much coconut though
A beautiful evening cruise on the St. Croix. Not my beer groove, but hard to complain when drinks and dinner are free.
#LiftBridgeBrewing Mango Blonde
#stellaArtois Lager
And only Pepsi products…booo… But we had a good time anyway!
Oh yeah, and it’s #stouturday ! Ran out of characters in that first post
#SurlyBrewing 2024 Darkness
And survived a trip to #Costco on a Saturday afternoon
Rain like crazy made plans to reach Minneapolis impossible - an hour each way in traffic!
A stop at #NorthernTapHouse instead (darn!) for a flight
#centralWaters BA Cherry Stout
#dragonsMilk Stout
#oliphant Cherry Cola Squishy
#founders KBS Iced Mocha
#oliphant Honee Honees peanut butter golden ale
Fanatics, just try to escape…
Every text (which I am not subscribed to) from a different number. Block and block again.
Delete account request gets this in an email:
"Your request to delete your account is limited to Unknown. If you have used your Fanatics ONE account to log in on other sites or mobile applications and you would like your data to be deleted, you should submit a deletion request by logging in on that site or mobile application.”
They don't even know which site I was on? It was fanatics(.)com, of course…
The #surlybrewing Darkness collab this year is with #firestoneWalker
👀 👀 🍻 🍺 👀 👀
#itsAlwaysStoutSeason #embraceTheDarkness #darkness #stout #preorder
JFC since Colbert went off the air late night suuuuuuuucks!
Tiffany Haddish in for Kimmel, and, well, Fallon…
Ick
Sometimes ponder if running the @m5stack #m5atom wardriver is worth it, such a tiny device, teeny built-in antenna, sub-optimal placement in each car.
Then you upload a months worth of data from two cars other people drive and bingo, another 1,000 APs you’d have never seen.
#allTheWifi a dozen at a time counts!
Discussing finances, my wife said “I guess we’ll survive another year…”
Instantly this started playing in my head. Had not thought of nor heard this song in 15+ years. Such an awesome album.
#kansas Mainstream - Drastic Measures
A full day of rain on Friday didn’t turn us into Drowned Lands, but made me think of this beer.
#drownedLands Black Gold bourbon barrel aged imperial #stout
Deeply oaky, chocolate and molasses in a somewhat thin body, bourbon finish with a lasting fermented malty note. Complex flavors, Black Dirt barrels
Fiona Apple - the only artist who could find a way to use the lyric:
“My Daddy put my crib under Damocles’ sword”
Horns of a Bull