Jumpin' At The Woodside

Happy Friday and Happy Birthday to my Pops... and one week 'til the DMB Caravan ! Tonight's brew is Sierra Nevada's special release - Best of Beer Camp... Double IPA (Camp # 29). Good stuff, this should be a regular release. Is it crazy to already be looking forward to their winter seasonal Celebration Ale ? Speaking of beer and questions... will Charlottesville, VA-based brewery and concert promoter Star Hill have their products available at the the three-day Caravan festival? I haven't see any mention in the news or on the Caravan site. Regardless, I want to thank George and Donna for letting friends and I stay at their house for the upcoming weekend - Thank You! Looking forward to heading up north and seeing everyone, maybe even Pops will join us for the weekend and do some fishing :-) Also, want to send good wishes out to Walter who had his knee operated on today. Good luck, and hopefully you'll be back on your feet soon. Dave Matthews Band - " One Sweet ...

Evening and happy Friday to all y'all! It's that time of year again... spring here means it's fall down under, which of course means it's hop harvest time in the southern hemisphere! Tonight's brew is the 2011 installment of Sierra Nevada's Southern Hemisphere Harvest Ale . Yep, and it tastes as good as it looks. Last week I returned from a trip up north that I planned... first, when I heard DMB wasn't touring this summer, and second when I heard about the Elvis Costello Revolver Tour. I've been a fan of Elvis Costello since the 1980s. During that decade, he went on a tour that featured a giant spinning wheel on stage. Elvis invited fans up to spin the wheel, which featured classic song titles. Whatever song the wheel landed on, he and the band played. A couple friends went to see him that tour, but I wasn't able to go. Try as I might, I never got to see Elvis Costello live and he never broke out the spinning wheel again. Fast forward 25 years or so...