29 Mar 2020 8 Comments
in Humor Tags: Anchor Steam, beer, Bruce Patch Wines, coronavirus, COVID19, mezcal, whiskey sour, wine
I was going through my phone deleting recent photos, when I noticed a troubling trend developing in the photos I’d been taking during the second half of March.
Whiskey sour
These were all photos I took in the afternoon when I was virtually toasting one friend or other. Fortunately they aren’t all from the same day.
You’ll be able to spot the theme.
Is anyone else having a similar experience?
11 Jan 2019 6 Comments
in Beverages, On the Road, Starlets, Yoga Students & Quinoa (stories) Tags: beer, Bruce Patch Wines, craft beer, IPA, microbreweries, Pliny the Elder, Russian River Brewing Co., Sonoma, wine country
While in Sonoma County recently visiting my mother for the holidays, my surrogate dad, adventure pal and winemaker extraordinaire Bruce Patch invited me to go pick up some samples at the local wine storage facility in Windsor.
“It’s right across the street from the new Russian River Brewing Company brewery!” he announced excitedly.
Beer aficionados and IPA nuts will recognize Russian River as the brewer of the difficult-to-source double-IPA-of-legend, Pliny the Elder, of which I have done several posts in my own Quixotic pursuit of. More
skinny girls & mayonnaise 