Zywiec beer, direct from Poland

You can read about our awesome trip to NYC a few posts back, it was
the best birthday gift! Polish food, supporting the tribe in Yankee
stadium, cupcakes, beer, and deb...great times!

As for the best beer, it was the Zyweic porter at Neptune. Amazing.
I'm not just saying that because I'm Polish but it was! Even on the
beer rating sites, it's rated at the top, no kidding! Of course after
contacting our liquor store and the company directly, we can't get it
here in Texas! The awesome thing is, I was also asking for the glasses
(as we collect all sorts of beer glasses) and they are sending me some
free! Now that is quite cool...

For anyone out of Texas, go find their beer...it's worth the search!

Aeros game...hockey in Houston, I'll cosign that!

It was a fun Friday night hanging out with friends at the Houston Aeros game followed by drinks downtown at the Flying Saucer. It was my first hockey game, ever...

So I was completely out of the loop, it was hockey. I kept calling the puck a ball, the ice a field, and used the wrong terminology completely! Doesn't help when JR is making references to baseball, basketball, and probably soccer in there, too! Only bummer from the game, there were NO fights! Ugh, what kind of hockey game has no fights?!

They had this thing in between the 2nd and 3rd periods (FYI, there' three 20 minute periods in the game) called Chuck-A-Puck where you can buy these rubber pucks and throw them onto the ice and trying to land them inside a helmet at center ice. You throw from anywhere on the lower level. When I realized what was going on, it was too late...they sold out of pucks. One guy did it and won himself $500!

Later we went to the Flying Saucer downtown... Not sure how, but we had never made it there. Great beer menu...we'll definitely be going back more in the future. The Black Butte Porter was quite tasty and made me think of Deb's Double Chocolate Stout cupcakes...yum!

As for other topics of conversation, we got into learning some new slang. It was a fun night out, I'm sure Deb would cosign that! http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cosign

Wedding Beer wins gold!!!

As y'all probably remember from our previous posting (Our Wedding Brew), my dad made us a wedding brew and he just submitted it into one of the largest homebrew competitions in the country and it won GOLD!

It turned out to be a rather unique beer, not really in a specific category so it was entered in the specialty beer category at the Big Beer Festival in Vail, CO. I don't know how all this works, but I was told that the specialty category is the hardest category to win as you can enter in any beer!

A pic that my dad's friend, Greg, took of the winners posting

Besides winning gold at the Big Beer Festival, we all loved it at the Wedding, there was not a drop left in the place!

Thanks Dad and Congrats!