russian river

i was fortunate enough to have an awesome beer pal who gave me 3 (three!!!) bottles of russian river's dirtiest beers. i've had one a night for the last three nights. this final beer is so tasty, and the ozric tentacles is so musical, i'm tempted to write.

plus, things are going well in arduinoland, despite my litany of fate-imposed abuses this week, including but not limited to:

- food poisoning
- GERD
- shin injury while running
- back injury while deadlifting
- burn injury while cooking
- also, i was insulted.

not really, i just added that last one.

anyhow, the beers:

Supplication: It had cherries. It was sour. The wife didn't like it. Score! It was awesome. 9 out of 10. Just what I had wanted last month when I wanted a sour cherry beer (but was denied, in some kind of time-warp flash-forward to this week's luck).

Beatification: Too dirty! Dirty dirty dirty, earthy, horsey, and sour as could possibly be. I hated it until the last sip, when I wanted another. I'd gotten to like it! But I still wouldn't count it as my first choice.

Temptation: 11/10. I'm drinking it now. It's pleasingly sour, and sour is its main flavor, but it's also beer. There's malt poking through all that sour! It holds its own! This is the first of the three that I'd say had any kind of balance, and it's an incredible beer. I like it. I like it a lot. I will have more of it. It's not only sour and malty, it's also got some of the dirty brett character of the Beatification, but it's not so over-the-top as to be difficult to drink.

I wanted to crack wise to my pal that he must want to kiss me: he's giving me all these puckering beers. I wanted to, but there were people around, and I didn't want to embarrass him (by exposing his plan in front of others).