Beer Day

Yesterday was “beer-day” with Christine.  We planned our day around the Maple Bacon Porter release party at Funky Buddha Brewery in Oakland Park, FL.  We left bright and early at 8:30 AM to make a run for gas.  Let the embarrassment begin…

I’m standing at the pump with the nozzle in my gas tank and I turn around to clean out my car.  I have a few items in my hand that need to go into the garbage that is on the other side of the hose line.  I figured this shouldn’t be hard, just step over it and make my way to the trash can, right?  Nope.  My clumsiness decided to attack at full strength, catching my foot on the hose line and sending me careening for the pavement.

As I go down, I turned my head over and see a man at the next pump watching me drop.  *groans*  He made no attempt to make sure I was okay or even call out to ensure I wasn’t dead.  Nice dude.  Thanks a bunch!

Christine races out of the car to check on me.  I was fine.  I fell mostly on my palms and thankfully didn’t pull the nozzle out of the gas tank.  That would have been bad.  Can you imagine gas everywhere?  Oh boy.

The rest of the day went smoothly.  Christine drove us down to the brewery.  The party started at 11am and we got there at about 11:45 AM.  The place was PACKED and parking was scarce.  We lucked out and found one just as someone was leaving.

Every two hours the brewery released a new beer that was in limited release.  I tried the Rice Krispy Treat and the Fire In the Hole along with their regular Red Dawn Ale.  The Rice Krispy Treat is a cream ale that was on the sweet side like the name implies.  The Fire In the Hole is a raspberry habanero red ale.  It was sweet like a raspberry but had a spicy finish that completed the raspberry well.  Both were great beers.

We ate lunch and then waited for our bottles of Maple Bacon Porter.  I purchased two.  As we waited in line we noticed that someone set down their two cups of nearly full beer in the parking lot.  What a waste of a good beer!  That’s synonymous with beer abuse!

We drove left and made our way to A1A and drove northward to Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach.  We took our time looking at the beautiful boats and houses along the intercostal.  By the time we got to Saltwater Brewery we were getting pretty tired.  Christine ordered the South End session ale and I ordered a flight.  The beers were really good.  I was impressed.  I purchased a half gallon growler of Sea Cow milk stout for a friend and then we left.

The drive home was pretty much uneventful.  We hit some stormy weather back in Orlando but it wasn’t too much of a problem.  On my way into my apartment I was attempting to carry all three bottles and my personal stuff at one time.  Unfortunately, I lost one of the bottles of porter and it shattered on the concrete.

*moment of silence*

I felt a little needy and wanted to talk to Paul just to hear his voice.  It was 11 PM which meant he was already asleep.  Oh well.  I curled up with my Kindle and read for a while before drifting off to sleep.  Tomorrow is ice skating.  Oh boy.  :-S