This week's @bloghomework from the lovely @missy, @rambo, and @lyxzen asks us to describe our favorite beverages. Like many others, I can narrow it down to my top five.
5. Diet coke. That sinister delicious bubbliness. I don't drink a lot of it anymore because of the carbonation and bloat factor but when I want to be really bad, I'll drink Diet Coke. However! It really needs to be out of a can or it just doesn't have that same crispness.
4. Tea. Green. Hot.
3. Carbonated water. To ease the pain of not drinking soda, we keep La Croix bubble water at home. You can pick it up at Target or pretty much any super market. It's merely cans of flavored bubble water. Yum! Its great by itself or....mixing it with gin or vodka.
2. Tepid water. Yes, I enjoy my water in a particular temperature range. At the hotel, we have a filtered water dispenser for both cold and blazing hot water and I usually make a mixture of both. I never go to work without my cherry blossom tumbler cup that is perfect for it.
1. Beer, particularly IPAs but also lagers, pilsners or saisons. I even tried to start a blog on here for my beer drinking adventures but it got to be too much
I enjoy IPAs most because yes, they are the big thing now but that means there's so many choices out there! I like them dry and bitey. I do my best to try need ones whenever I can but some of my favorites include
Grapefruit Sculpin from Ballast Point, a local brewery named Bottle Logic, a Jasmine IPA from both Stone brewing and Elysian brewing, Angel City IPA (and their Sirachalada), Nelson from Alpine, Pliny the Elder from Russian River, blah, blah the list goes on!
See what I'm saying? There's so many wonderful and exciting beers out there to try.
My husband and I go out and try new breweries in our local area and when we are traveling. The Stone brewery in Escondido, San Diego is MAGICAL. They have a glorious beer garden in the back half of their restaurant. You can drink a beer under the stars, roll around on some Astroturf, sit back in a rocker by the stream that quietly cuts through the garden. We've encountered amazing service from the good folks at Ball at Point when a growler full of precious Grapefruit Sculpin exploded on the car ride home. After an email and some 12 hours later, a kind rep from the company was bringing a new filled growler to my doorstep. Do you want life long customers? Because that's how you get life-long customers.
Sometimes I pick out beers for the simple fact the labels are cool.
So grab a friend (@roz), go out there, and safely enjoy all of hoppy, yeasty, beverages that life has to offer!
Cheers my good friends!
