Believe it or not tonight is a charity networking event themed around Twitter titled Twestival. This little beast will take place worldwide, locally at CiRCA over at John and Richmond, and give me a chance to meet some of the great people I’ve chatted with via Twitter over the past months. Considering those others around here on Twitter lasted about as long there as they did on their blogs I won’t wait up for any of ya.
So my Sunday story. I was at the wife’s family farm for birthday gatherings but found myself a little bored by Sunday afternoon and desiring a little adventure. I hadn’t been up to visit my friends at Neustadt Springs Brewery in almost two years and it seemed a good time for the trip. Sadly, when I arrived I discovered they’d taken to closing on Sundays and thought I’d wasted a trip. Fortunately for me they saw me walk up to the door (I didn’t realize they live there as well) and opened it up to let me in!
They noted to me that even though they’re closed they’ll open for their good customers who “need their beer” (heh) and, in the future, I would just have to call to say I was on the way. I picked up 24 cans mixed between the Big Dog Porter, 10w30, Scottish Ale, and Grey County Lager and chatted up the past couple years and the fact that I had now taken up to a day job working with some of their macro competition. At that point Andy referenced some special one-off beers he’d produced recently including a variant of the Grey County Lager that had been fermenting for 180 days. From there it was the holy grail; a mug of this unfiltered, aged Grey County Lager straight from the fermenter. And while I’m not the world’s biggest light lager fan I was incredibly amused and thankful for the opportunity. They went on to tour me through the changes to the brewery including the new canning operation and cold storage, although we skipped the amazing caverns tour I’d done a couple years back and is a must tour for all beer fans.
Are you a loser who has to celebrate Valentine’s Day? Nothing says I love you like the gift of home-baked Chocolate Guinness Cupcakes.
Today’s Random Links
Get your face on a wall in KP’s home town – the Molson Mural Project.
The city where apostrophes arent welcome.
National Post Twitter meltdown! (Thanks, Rob!)