iPhone shots #1

In b-ville to pickup IPhone and do some work without distractions.

Rained Out

It has not rained all summer in Austin. Seriously, I can not remember the last day we had more than a dribble. The earth is cracking around us. Luckily, rain has finally come. The last two days have been filled with heavy downpours. People were so happy. Kids streamed out of their houses to play in the puddles. It was a real treat. We were no different:

Draught House 43rd Anniversary Party - THE LIST

The party is happening Saturday 10/22 from 1-10 PM, kicking off Austin Beer Week (more on that later). Check out this good stuff from DH (bold=what we are looking forward to most! [pretty much everything]):

We will have a great selection of cask, sour, barrel aged, rare, wild, and cellared beers, available in a collectible sample glass.

Sugar Shack BBQ will bring the food and DJ JBL with his massive vinyl collection will spin his magic.
Beer List as of now, more to be added-

Keg
(512) Whiskey Double Pecan
Brooklyn 2007 Monster
Brooklyn 2009 Black Chocolate Stout
Deschutes Black Butte XXIII
Deschutes Jubel 2010
Jester King Wine Barrel Commercial Suicide
Jester King Boxer's Revenge Wild Provision Ale
Jester King Das Wunderkind! Wild Table Beer
Jester King Farmhouse Black Metal
Jester King Farmhouse Wychmaker
Independence Oak Aged Anniversary Ale
Live Oak Old Treehugger
New Belgium Draught Folie (sour we blended at New Belgium)
Maui Imperial CoCoNuT Porter
Maui Onion Mild (made with caramelized onions!)
Rahr La Grange Saison
Sierra Ovila Saison
Sierra Brewer's Reserve Grand Cru
Southern Star Double Dry Hopped Pro-Am Cascadian Dark Ale
Victory Helios

Firkins
Austin Beerworks Fire Eagle IPA
Bear Republic Peter Brown
Bear Republic Race 5
Great Divide Yeti
Green Flash Imperial IPA
Lagunitas Dogtown Pale Ale
Lagunitas Maximus
Left Hand Milk Stout
Ranger Creek Jerky Mesquite Porter (with beef jerky in it!)

Euro Beer #21: A la Mort Subite (Again)

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. Still tripping around in Brussels:



Golly, still in Brussels? I thought we were done here. Nope, guess not. Back to A la Mort Subite. I love this place.



Sofia had the gueze and I ordered the biggest faro available. Sofia's looks bigger in this photo, but the faro (back) was actually much larger.

For more euro foodage and drinkage, go here.

A la Mort Subite
rue Montagne-aux-Herbes Potagères 7
Brussels



Sightseeing.

Triathawhat

A few weeks ago we zipped down to S. Padre Island to cheer on Javier (Grande or Abuelo as Santi calls him) and Leti do one of them triathlon thingies. Some shots from the big day:



Somewhere in this crowd is Santi, Eric and Sofia. I'm not there, I was in bed for the start of the race.



Like I said, I was not there so Tere was taking the photos. There were a lot of photos like this. Not sure if this a mistake or she actually wanted a photo of this green wooden trash can.



Javier coming out of the water.



Transitioning to bike.



Another favorite photo of mine.



Then I got the camera back.



Where is Leti anyway?



Starting his run, getting an ass smack from Eric.



And there's Leti coming in to finish. I missed her whole race.



Javier finishing strong.



O the pain and the joy.

Crushing It

This is like a coming soon kinda post.

Under the Sea

We went to Sea World a couple of weeks ago.



Santi dug it all.



He wanted to go on the Shamu Express.



But......aint happening.



Grover's carousel was a go though!



ELMO!!!!!!!



BEERRRRRR!!!!



And the man of the hour.



I forgot how impressively big these dudes were.



Santi got hot.



I can't believe I am part of this now.



Santi loved the penguin exhibit. Not the penguins, but the people mover. He rode it like 30 times. He ran it, rather.

A Small Gloat

Austin Monthly included Austin Beer Guide in October's HOT LIST! I think it's fitting we are in the "Beauty" Issue. I've never seen a more beautiful group of dudes.

More real blogging later. I promise.

Booooo.

Lame Spain, lame. Whatever, moving on. Read this book.

October Texas Monthly

New issue out. Check it.

Baby Weekend

Harris came down to Austin for the weekend. He brought his parents too (Stacy and Matt). What is Harris looking at?



This monster.



After breakfast, Santi drove us to the park.



He got lost.



Santi, after a bit of a fight, gave Harris the wheel.



Lost again. Let's just go swimming.



We walked down to the ghetto free part of Barton Springs.



The kids did not seem to mind.

Euro Beer #20: Westvleteren 12

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. Still tripping around in Brussels:



Beer has come a long way (even since 2007). Westvleteren 12 was back then, and even now mostly, considered the best beer in the world. I bought one in Brussels. I should have bought more. But again, we were still being cheap; it was still early in our trip.



We drank it at our host's apartment. It was good. The photo, not so good.

Here is some other stuff we did the following day:



Coffee and croissants at Gusti D'Italia. It was quite pleasant until a delivery truck came up and idled by us for 5 minutes. That was not so pleasant.



Then we went walking in the forest. I was the tour guide.



On our walk we scarfed some of our Pierre Marcolini chocolates (do not click this link unless you want an insane web experience). So fancy.



Then Oups for soups. This place is awesome. Definitely go here if you are ever in Brussels.



My soup. I got a big bowl. Sofia got two small bowls. I win.

ACL Starts Today

Meeting Elmo

Yeah this happened yesterday. Santiago was blown away. More on that later. I still need to put up photos from the High's visit.

Real Work

This is the pull out cover (gate-fold) for the first issue of Texas Monthly I worked on. Tomorrow starts week four of the October issue (meaning the week we send the magazine to printer). It's been pretty wild. But I finally think I am starting to see how everything works.

Beer Work

I'm going to the Great American Beer Festival at the end of this month. To get the masses excited, we have been running a series of short interviews over at Austin Beer Guide. We are calling it GABF Pep Rally. Check it out. More to come throughout the month.

Brad Staba-ing

I love this video part. I watched it a billion times in college. It also got me into Sonic Youth. Nothing mindblowing. Just good stuff.