i probably should have known about this earlier

Chicago Bar Project. I should probably be a stringer for this.

i can sympathize

Walking to class today (in the second-to-last week of my second-to-last quarter), I saw the remnants of someone's private moment. On the sidewalk side-by-side sat a 22 of Old English and a pint of Ben and Jerry's chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Clearly, this raises a number of questions. Ruminate accordingly.

kindred

Two sets of dear friends visited in January. Visited Chicago in January. Clearly, I am loved.

Eben and I are truly at our best together on a porch, beers in hand, music playing, and time stopped or spread. Alas, the Adirondack chairs are yet to be purchased and snow's all that sittin on the porch. So when Eben and Anna visited, I had to plan some indoor activities. Many of them involved beer including a tour of Half Acre Brewery.

Half Acre's brewery tour was free yet they still pumped us full of free beer. Amazing, tasty, complex free beers. The kind of beers that you wouldn't want to have as an everyday beer but you would because the Half Acre folks are so knowledgeable and charming. The beautiful foamy head on this hoppy afternoon was that Half Acre doesn't want to expand. They don't want to get big. They don't want you to drink their beer everyday. Hallelujah.