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100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #6 - April 11, 2009
Due to extreme amounts of laziness, I was not able to acquire another new beer for today. So, this review is the second (and last) of my Portsmouth Brewery beers. I picked it up yesterday as well, so you know it’s got to be pretty fresh beer.
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100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #5 - April 10, 2009
Yesterday, we were in Portsmouth NH doing wedding stuff. While we were there, we stopped in at the Portsmouth Brewery for lunch and some beers. I didn’t get any beer to go with lunch, but I did get a couple of singles to go and a pint glass. Here’s the first review of one of the singles. The other will follow in a couple days. I want to avoid getting too many from local brew pubs since very few people will ever get to try them. But you can’t avoid that entirely, so here’s one.
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100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #4 - April 9, 2009
Now here is a beer I am genuinely surprised by. I’ll admit to not being much of an IPA fan. As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m not much of an Imperial Anything fan. This extends to IPAs because of the tendency among brewers to make ever bigger and hoppier IPAs. I like hops as much as anyone, but I don’t enjoy the feeling of eating a pile of lawn cuttings in my beer. So, I was a little surprised to enjoy Hop Devil.
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100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #3 - April 8, 2009
Sam Smith’s Winter Welcome 2008
Tonight’s new beer has been sitting in my closet for several months. I made a trip to the homebrew store a while back and bought a couple random singles for later, but then kind of forgot about them. One was the black chocolate stout from the other night, and one was this beer. I think there’s still a couple more random singles floating around back there that I’ll have to try out in the days to come, too.
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100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #2 - April 7, 2009
The first beer I ever drank that I really enjoyed was Hoegaarden. At the time, the concept of really good beer was foreign to me, though I was willing to give it a try. After that half liter in the heavy octagonal glass, I was hooked. In the years since, I have come to realize that Hoegaarden is decent, but not really anything special anymore. It’s basically an industrial product put out by mega huge brewing conglomco InBev. But I still have a soft spot for it.
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100 Days, 100 Beers: Day #1 - April 7, 2009
Inspired by Will’s frequent statement that he needs exactly 100 beers and kind of stuck in a beer drinking rut, I have decided that for the next 100 days I will have one new beer every day. Now of course, that doesn’t mean I can’t also enjoy beers I’ve already had. I just have to have a new one in there at some point too. I’m also going to declare that homebrew shouldn’t count. And you can’t embark on a mission like this without documenting it in painstaking detail on the internet. So with that in mind, I present day #1…
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Ker-engaged! - May 25, 2008
Some of you may have seen this coming, but I’m guessing a lot of people weren’t paying close enough attention. As of the night of May 24, 2008, Sarah and I are officially engaged. This happened at the end of her week-long trip to visit me in Nashua and was really sort of the only big thing we did the whole week. That’s probably for the best, since it’s a really big one. Well you might want to know how it went down.
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The return of clean clothes - April 17, 2008
The long national nightmare of no washing machine is finally at an end.
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More things I've noticed - April 16, 2008
I don’t have anything specific to say, so it’s time for another installment of unusual things I have noticed since I have been here.
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Washing - April 15, 2008
Last night was an interesting experience. I’m here for three weeks total, but I only brought about a week’s worth of clothes because there’s a washing machine in the apartment. There’s no dryer, but I can take care of that part easy enough. This sounded pretty good to me since it meant I wouldn’t have to haul twenty pounds of clothes across the ocean and I wouldn’t be taking twenty pounds of dirty clothes back with me. I hate that.