Maybe we should get Billy on the case again??
Spent the weekend tilling, scraping and prepping about 600Sq Ft of area in front of the brewshed, around the end of the driveway and over by the side of my house for the the arrival of 9 tons of crusher finings and 6 pallets of patio flagstone that I am in charge of putting in.
Hooray?
Spent the weekend doing my "bachelor party" New England Brewery tour. What a blast! It was me and 6 close friends who are also members of my brew club. Below is the complete itinerary with all the stops we made (although the schedule wasn't exact):
Day 1 Thursday - CT & Western, Mass (no tours):
1) 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch: Pies & Pints (Waterbury, CT)
2) 2:00 - 2:30: Firefly Hollow (Bristol, CT) - Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
3) 3:15 - 3:45: NEBCO (New Haven, CT) - Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
4) 5:15 -5:45: Treehouse (Monson, MA) (opens at 5 PM). Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel.
5) 6:30 - 7:30 Dinner: The Dirty Truth (Northampton, MA)
6) 8:00 Hotel: Quality Inn, 117 Conz Street, Northampton, MA. Boozing until bed.
Day 2 Friday - VT
1) Free Breakfast: Leave at 10:45.
2) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch: Whetstone Station (Brattleboro, VT). Choose a growler for the hotel?
3) 1:15-1:30: Meuleman's Craft Draught. Beer shopping.
3) 2:30 - 3:15: Longtrail self-guided tour (Bridgewater, VT)
4) 4:15 - 4:30: The Warren Store (Warren, VT - Lawson's). Beer shopping.
5) 5:00 - 6:00 Drinks & Dinner: Prohibition Pig (Waterbury, VT). Choose growlers for hotel?
6) 6:30 Hotel: Commodores Inn, 823 South Main St, Stowe, VT. Beer shopping? More boozing and/or exploring.
Day 3 Saturday - VT
1) $8 breakfast at hotel: Leave at 10:00
2) 10:00 - 11:00: Beer shopping?
3) 11:30 - 12:30 Lunch: Brewster River Pub (Jeffersonville, VT). Choose a growler for hotel?
4) 1:00 - 1:30: Rock Art Brewery (Morrisville, VT). Flight or 1 & done. Choose a growler for hotel?
5) 2:30 - 3:00: Hill Farmstead Brewery (Greensboro, VT)
6) 3:30: Cabin Camping at Lakeview Cabins (Barton, VT)
Day 4 Sunday - Trip Home
1) Breakfast at campground. Check out at 10:00
2) 11:15 - 12:15 Lunch: Jasper Murdock's (The Norwich Inn, Norwich, VT)
3) 2:00 - 3:00: High Horse or Northampton Brewery (Amherst/Northampton, MA)
4) 4:00: Home
I'm going to the county fair. Gonna see Foghat!
This weekend? Driving 10 hours to South Carolina. Where do I get a beer?
I'm processing 50 broiler chickens this weekend. We raise them from day old until they are large enough. That's enough to get the family through the whole year.
Attempting to restrain myself from wanting to totally annihilate my in-laws for basically disowning their daughter, granddaughters and myself this morning over some imagined insult, all because they always hear only about half of any conversation and take it entirely out of context. Maybe I should take up Zen......
Packing to move house on Thursday, trying to buy a car (moving out to where I need my own car to commute), trying to rest my collarbone that was screwed back together in surgery last Tuesday. No, these things are not very compatible with each other.
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