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Need helping planning your next big beer adventure?
From birthday beer bashes to guided tastings and brewery tours, I have a trio of curated packages available.

Living that puddle life with @moderntimesbeer Booming Rollers, a tropically tilted, clean-drinking IPA suited for repeat engagements. Also: it’s a holiday weekend? It is! We’ll be in New Hampshire tomorrow and Sunday, sandwiched around a one-day stay in Portland, Maine. Huzzah! Looking forward to checking out the new @austinstreetbrewery space, @izakayaminato for dinner, @blythandburrows and more. Because: for one night, me and @jenenec shall roam kid-free. That deserves a whee!
Back in the saddle in Brooklyn—for a few days, at least, till we hit Maine and New Hampshire this weekend—with my favorite corner spot @covenhovennyc and a fresh pint of @suarezfamilybrewery Tip Top, a brightly hopped blonde ale smoothed out with a touch of wheat and oats. Tastes like summer, sneaking up right around the corner.
Today, it was cloudy with an endless chance of tacos and burritos in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, where I’m ending a getaway with an endless airport delay. Still! It was a stellar escape to New Mexico, where the language of IPAs—clean, crisp, slightly malty, full of tropical dankness—spoke loud and clear to my taste buds. Now: it’s time to watch music videos and movies and wait, wait, wait to leave so I can come back again #visitnewmexico #ipas #airportdelays
After sleeping, oh, seven restless hours in a wildly sketchy hotel in Albuquerque I caught the train north to Santa Fe. Highlights included a trip to @rowleyfarmhouse for some foeder-aged saisons and @meow__wolf, the experiential art exhibit that is one of the rare destinations that meets its hype and even exceeds it. Spent hours getting lost in the complex universe of interconnected, exceedingly trippy rooms. And now it’s time for green chile *everything.* #santafe #rowleyfarmhouseales #meowwolf
Phew! I could use a beer. After, oh, eight months of work, my latest book, Drink Better Beer, is off to the printer in a few days. As we were wrapping up the final bits and bobs, I realized, Dang, I need a new headshot, that little visual image that says I am, in fact, an author worthy of having his picture printed in the way back of a book. Luckily, @jujushotme was able to fit me in on short notice—read, three hours—and we came up with this shot. Not the standard pensive profile pic for sure, but it’s beer! Beer should be fun! And now I am off to Albuquerque and then Santa Fe for a much, much-needed break. Expect plenty of desert scenery, green chile-covered eats, @meow__wolf madness and, well, beer in my near future.
After, oh, three days of continuous rain I was finally able to take advantage of spring and hang out on the #AstroStoop with some @blackberryfarm Boundary Tree, a hopped-up Belgian ale of the sort you don’t see too often these days. Also: isn’t that @helms_workshop design great? Which feels like a nice segue. I’ve been writing a *ton* lately, and my 2019 edition of some of the best beer can designs in America—including Blackberry Farm—dropped recently on @cerosdotcom. Care to look at pretty pictures and read pithy words? You’re in luck! The link awaits in my profile. #design #beerdesign #beercandesign
Once upon a time, in an NYC increasingly long ago, I reviewed restaurants. I don’t do that too much these days, save for once a year when I help judge @allagashbrewing‘s @iceculinary cooking contest. I ate dumplings! And scallops! And didn’t take pictures! Then I took a grapefruit zesty Darling Ruby, took a picture and took a train home, train beer in hand. And thus ends a rainy Monday.
PSA before the day gets away. We celebrated Mother’s Day with a carefully considered selection of gifts: plants, cards and free time, the most glorious gift of all. Violet and I skedaddled to, appropriately, Mama’s Noodle House for spicy noodles, dumplings and drawing while @jenenec hit a museum. Five hours to yourself! It’s the dream of every parent, made real if but for one awesome day. #mothersday
Well! Today has been eventful. Yesterday, news broke that @samueladamsbeer bought @dogfishhead, a story that sent a bunch of shockwaves through beer. This morning, Jim Koch (left) and Sam Calagione, the respective founders of Sam Adams and Dogfish Head, held a last-minute journalism meet-up @eatalyflatiron. So I slapped on my deadline-journalism hat and hot-footed it to Manhattan, did some reporting, drank a beer and turned around a story for @mensjournal. And now it’s live online. Still got the speedy writing chops! Link is in my profile, should you care to read about motivations and whatnot. #dogfishhead #bostonbeer #samadams
Hops have become beer’s signature ingredient, providing the lush aromas of tropical fruit and citrus that make us swoon over the latest IPAs. Hop farmers and breeders have been hard at work creating a fresh crop of hops that’ll send beer in delicious new directions. From the purple Skittles pop of Zappa to the orange Creamsicle profile of Lotus, I tapped brewers from @fairstatecoop, @solemnoathbeer, @sixpoint, @marblebrewery and more to chat about the latest and greatest #hop varieties. The link to my @sevenfiftydaily story is in the ol’ profile, should you care for a read. 📸 of the hop field = @crosbyhops
Sometimes when you spend the night cleaning up you find your old high school yearbook and remember that, during your senior year, you were voted Most Likely to Be at a Party. Some things never change. Luckily, hair styles, choker necklaces and baggy pants do. #highschool #yearbook
What, you don’t take an afternoon bagel break inside an empty newspaper box? #walkshometakesolong