11.30.2012

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"We have a daughter now. Did you know that? Her name is Lucia."

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9.19.2012

Euro Beer #31: Annecy House Guest

In the fall of 2007 (yeah, I know, almost 5 years ago, but I am not ending this series until ENDS) my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. In Annecy:



















 Drinking Kir at a friend's house. What's kir? Where's the beer? Not in this post.
  















Then she made us dinner. This was the salad.
















Some couscous. 
















Our morning view everyday while in Annecy. Not bad.
















Sightseeing.
















Art

8.20.2012

Euro Beer #30: Train to Annecy

Yeah, one of these again. We have a lot to blog about. I mean, we had Lucia. But this will do for now.  
In the fall of 2007 (yeah, I know, almost 5 years ago, but I am not ending this series until ENDS) my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. Left Paris: 

 














So this is it. A little wine and a big ole sandwich from Masion Collet. You can't go wrong. We were headed to Annecy to spend a week with a friend. It was a nice train trip.
















Classy.


















Then a lot of staring out windows. We should have bought more wine. We did have a pear later though. That was good.

















Lot of this.

7.30.2012

Got A New Bike

He look, here we are. I bought a new bike yesterday:

6.15.2012

ABG: Summer Issue Cover and Party Tease

We are so teasing you right now. Proofs are approved. Summer is here. Issue release party is happening June 28th at Billy's on Burnet. More info later.

6.13.2012

Euro Beer #29: Ave Maria

 In the fall of 2007 (yeah, I know, almost 5 years ago, but I am not ending this series until ENDS) my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. Being cheap in Paris:
















We met our friend Greg at his favorite bar in Paris, Ave Maria. But, I got drunk. It was my midnight birthday. No beer this night. A bike rental stand was right outside the doors and of course I was luckily enough to find an unlocked bike. I took Sofia for a drunk bike ride through the small twisted streets of Paris at 2 am. This was one of my favorite memories from the trip. We got lost of course. Eventually we made it back to the hotel and fell asleep dead drunk and tired from biking.
















Don't know what this was, but I drank it.

Ave Maria

1 Rue Jacquard
Paris


See the bike station in front of bar in this Google pic:















Some more awesome photos from the night:

















Tried on Greg's hat.

















We woke up and had this the next morning:



4.10.2012

Bike Thief

We (Javier) had a bike stolen in NYC. In Park Slope. From our front stoop. At least when they stole that bike, they left a shitty one in its place. That was kind of nice. A Huffy for a Cannondale. Why not?

3.27.2012

ABG Spring Issue Dudes!



Whoah, been awhile, huh? If you have not noticed, most of my time goes toward Austin Beer Guide these days. Which is why I am throwing up this post. We are set to release our spring issue. Read it. And come party with us at the Black Star Co-op next Monday. All the details are here.

RSVP on FB too.

I'll try to keep in touch, once in awhile at least. Love you.

2.22.2012

Is this place

dead?

Maybe.

Been a good run.

2.08.2012

Euro Beer #28: Un Zèbre à Montmartre

In the fall of 2007 my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. Being cheap in Paris:



We were hanging out in Montmartre and we needed a drink. Duh. This bar looked decent. Busy with a youngish crowd. I had a Kanterbräu, which was refreshing, but nothing special. Sofia had a pleasant glass of Sauvignon Blanc. More sightseeing?

Un Zèbre à Montmartre
38 rue Lepic

75018, Paris



For more euro foodage and drinkage, go here.

2.07.2012

Two Videos For You

First Santi:




Loving this song. It's like, totally, my anthem right now:

2.03.2012

Dumbon



WTF. Self guided tour. I've done that for free at Circle. No offense to Circle, but this is a lame Groupon. I don't really check my Groupon emails anymore. I usually delete them without even viewing deal, but today "brewery" jumped out at me. I'm over Groupon.

1.24.2012

ABG Winter Issue Release Party January 26, 7pm @ Draught House




WHEN: Thursday, January 26, 7pm

WHERE: Draught House Pub and Brewery

WHAT:
Come celebrate the latest issue of the Austin Beer Guide at our release party. We will also be awarding the winners of our Best of 2011 Readers Poll. If that is not enough (we know what you want, good beer) we will also have be a keg of the Bourbon Barrel Night RYE-der collaboration we brewed with Hops & Grain!

1.18.2012

Mount Bonnell

We went for a walk up on ole Bonnell.










Bill Callhan wasn't there though. Bummer.


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1.04.2012

Euro Beer #27: Street Life

In the fall of 2007 my wife and I traveled through Europe for 10 weeks. We ate a lot of food and drank of a lot of beer (and wine). Not enough food, not enough beer. In Paris:



Guess what? This Euro Beer entry is not about beer. It is about wine. Sort of.



Remember, when I first started this series, I said it was not necessarily ONLY be about beer, but everything we drank (and ate). Here Sofia is picking up a baguette for consumption in the park. We are gonna need some cheese and wine, right? This IS Paris.



We bought the cheese and wine from some corner store. It was Sunday and it was the only place open. FAIL. It was the worst wine we EVER had (still). So terrible. Disgusting.



But I was not gonna let that ruin my day. We corked the bottle and took a little trip to Montmartre. We saw the Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (see top photo), which Christopher Hitchens felt was dreadful. I love it.



Later I finished the bottle with some street cart croque-monsieur. It was my midnight birthday and we were starting things off right. This was still early into our trip and saving money was paramount. I want to visit Paris again and do it right (somewhat).





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