Flying Fish Farmhouse Summer Ale

After a whole lot of crazy nights and that awesome bottle share, I needed a few calm nights. To start, I enjoyed a Flying Fish Farmhouse Summer Ale, an American Blonde Ale.

This was an excellent beer on a warm summer night, so refreshing. Citrusy with a bit of spiciness in the nose. Started lemony, a tiny bit spicy, and finished nice and clean. Some malt presence kept it from being too bitter and it stayed really pleasant the whole way through the glass. This is a beer my wife really likes and I quite enjoyed my bottle.

Flying Fish at Monk's

I did a little work over the weekend and got in early to fix something, so I felt like I deserved a long lunch on Monday.  Lucky for me, Monk's was having a Mad Monday in the form of some rare Flying Fish sixtels.  They were also selling tickets for their Russian River beer week dinner and, amazingly enough, people were lining up for them by like 8am.  Apparently even beer dinner tickets are turning into rare commodities (although to be fair I'm not sure this is that rare for the more popular ones at Monks).

I started my lunch off with the Bourbon Barrel Abbey Dubbel although I meant to start with the Exit 13 and was misheard by the bartender.  Ah well.  You win some, you lose some.

Saturday Beers!

What's a Saturday without some interesting things to drink?  Nothing, that's what.  I needed to do some beer shopping for a thing I'm having at my house on Friday, so Jo and I took a trip out to Capone's and the Wholefoods in Plymouth Meeting.

We arrived at Capone's and found out the restaurant is going to be closed on Sundays (at least until around April) which stinks since that was always when we went.  Ah well.  There was a lot to choose from, but they had Flying Fish Exit 13, a chocolate stout, and I've been wanting to try that for a while now.