Beer 6

Beer Advent Calendar day 6: Little Willow Star Chaser, New England IPA. A style that takes what would have been a defect 20 years ago (haziness) and runs with it. This one is from a tiny brewery in Florence (Northampton), MA; so small that the address is a house and it’s actually brewed in Connecticut.

Beer 5

Beer Advent Calendar day 5: Wandering Soul Past Life Vienna Lager

I did not have high hopes for tonight’s selection, but it’s good. So far the beer omnivore in me is really appreciating the wide range of styles in this Calendar.

Beer 3

Beer Advent Calendar day 3: Founders French Toast Bastard, vanilla cinnamon maple bourbon barrel aged Scotch ale. I am drinking it out of a Medieval Manor 8oz beer glass because it’s 11.1% and also might give me diabetes.

Dutch master

One of the street trees in front of our house died in the drought this summer, and the city cut it down a couple weeks ago. This morning they ground out the stump, using a piece of equipment about as different from a paint brush as you can get.