Happy 4th everyone!

Went to Deciduous Brewing Company in Newmarket New Hampshire today. Newmarket is another cool old New England Mill town. When Deciduous first opened they made some nice mixed fermentation saisons and grisettes. They seemed to change to almost all fruited sours heavily dosed with milk sugar for a while. Not a fan of those. Went today to spend a fathers day gift certificate. Had Spangle, a single hazy IPA while we were there. Picked up a case of mostly double NEIPAs but got a Kolsch and a Keller Beer as well.

Spending the 4th weekend in Hot Springs. Cheers!

Another one from yesterday afternoon. Quantum Dots from Spyglass Brewery in Nashua NH. This tiny brewery pumps out some delicious hazys.

25 years ago this week a friend came over to my house in Bryan and asked my roommate when we got a dog? "What dog? We don't have a dog?"

There was a dog asleep in the driveway under his truck. We gave him some water and I think a few hot dogs. That night when my roommate and I got home from the bar we sat in the yard and talked to him for a bit. We tried to find his owner by posting signs and I think the shelter was closed for 4th of July.

On Sunday or Monday we got a letter from the city threatening to fine us for not restraining "our dog" who was barking at passerbys. So we patched the gate in our ****ty fence and decided to name him. We wanted to name him after some dog from literature to sound smart but the only two dogs we could think of were Clifford and "Odysseus' dog from the Odyssey who was excited to see him when he came home and then died". Turns out that dogs name was Argus (or Argos in some translations).

Came across this in a grocery store in Portugal. Had to grab it.

Gus was a great dog. Hope the beer lives up to the rep.

My wife was up in LA yesterday and dropped in at Highland Park, then heard that Creature Comfort opened a location nearby this year. I had no idea. Strange move for an Athens, GA brewery but I'm not mad about it.

Slummin'

Blink twice if you're in danger.

Pre-storm suds

Another from my trip to Deciduous. Simple Union Kolsch.

I was at Total Wine this morning picking up some Mezcal and Mexican wines for fajita night later this week and saw that they had some Juicy Bits. Only 3 weeks old, and excellent.

Got my AP scores in today and my students absolutely crushed the national average. Celebratory beers it is.

Made it out of hot springs, arkansas right when the remnants of Beryl started pushing through. Aside from the occasional gas station malt liquor, best beer was at Superior Bathhouse Brewing. Sampled all 18 on tap.