SPBBL - Serious Pony Brewers Beer Lounge

[Creamy Arty 6,251]

@Divine plywood's post got me thinking. Sierra Nevada has an enormous brewery in Ashville, NC. Anybody who lives around there should check it out. I drove down there from Virginia for the tour and it was amazing. The hop room smells simply divine 

[CypherHoof 26,479]

3 minutes ago, Artemis said:

@Divine plywood's post got me thinking. Sierra Nevada has an enormous brewery in Ashville, NC. Anybody who lives around there should check it out. I drove down there from Virginia for the tour and it was amazing. The hop room smells simply divine 

I literally work right next to a huge brewery - all commerical stuff of course, but the entire area has a rather characteristic hoppy odour to it..

[Divine plywood 1,232]

I can't seem to find enough time to even visit in my local brewery as often as I would like, not to mention flying to States... But one can always dream  

Along with Sierra Nevada and many, many other breweries, Stone's brewery/hop farm/restaurant in Escondido, CA is definitely on my bucket list!

[AJ2489 2,855]

11 minutes ago, Divine plywood said:

I can't seem to find enough time to even visit in my local brewery as often as I would like, not to mention flying to States... But one can always dream  

Along with Sierra Nevada and many, many other breweries, Stone's brewery/hop farm/restaurant in Escondido, CA is definitely on my bucket list!

Sierra Nevada has been on my bucket list for quite some time! 

Luckily for me the area I live has loads of breweries so theres always opportunities to visit them haha

[Longhaul 6,470]

*pops in, restocks, and tidies up a bit.*

[CypherHoof 26,479]

9 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*pops in, restocks, and tidies up a bit.*

*sneezes a little at the dust, but settles in for a light cider*

[Longhaul 6,470]

21 minutes ago, Cypherhoof said:

*sneezes a little at the dust, but settles in for a light cider*

*sets a fresh cider in front of Cypher*

Sorry about the dust, it should settle soon.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

13 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*sets a fresh cider in front of Cypher*

Sorry about the dust, it should settle soon.

It is in the nature of dust to be rearranged rather than removed, but I can deal. Sometimes it is just good to find someplace quiet to relax )

[Divine plywood 1,232]

  G' evening y'all ! How are you fine folks doing tonight?

[Longhaul 6,470]

16 minutes ago, Cypherhoof said:

It is in the nature of dust to be rearranged rather than removed, but I can deal. Sometimes it is just good to find someplace quiet to relax )

Very true.  I couldn't agree more.

 

6 minutes ago, Divine plywood said:

 G' evening y'all ! How are you fine folks doing tonight?

Doing okay, I suppose.   How are you?

[Divine plywood 1,232]

Well. it's weekend, I just made myself a large portion of hot chocolate and I'm wearing my favorite woolen pullover first time this autumn.

I would say that things are working out for me quite well

[Longhaul 6,470]

8 minutes ago, Divine plywood said:

Well. it's weekend, I just made myself a large portion of hot chocolate and I'm wearing my favorite woolen pullover first time this autumn.

I would say that things are working out for me quite well

Sounds awesome.  I'm currently contemplating dinner options prior to going shopping.

 

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Just now, Longhaul said:

Sounds awesome.  I'm currently contemplating dinner options prior to going shopping.

 

I tend to find there are two paths - one of deciding what you are going to cook, then visiting multiple shops to find the ingredients, and the other visiting a convenient shop to see what ingredients are available, and then deciding what you could cook from those

[Divine plywood 1,232]

@Longhaul What did you have in mind? Do you have any favorite 'go to' -recipes?

[Longhaul 6,470]

4 minutes ago, Cypherhoof said:

I tend to find there are two paths - one of deciding what you are going to cook, then visiting multiple shops to find the ingredients, and the other visiting a convenient shop to see what ingredients are available, and then deciding what you could cook from those

 

Just now, Divine plywood said:

What did you have in mind? Do you have any favorite 'go to' -recipes?

Saturdays are my 'no cook' days, so I'm figuring out where to go, most likely getting takeout on the way home from grocery shopping.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Just now, Longhaul said:

 

Saturdays are my 'no cook' days, so I'm figuring out where to go, most likely getting takeout on the way home from grocery shopping.

Depends on how "non cook" you want it to be I guess - when I can't be bothered to actually make something, but don't want takeout, I usually get ready-to-cook ovenables from the chilled asle - say chicken kievs, tagliatelle carbonara, and garlic bread, which DO require cooking, but the entire effort is "remove from outer packaging, place in oven, wait"

[Longhaul 6,470]

1 minute ago, Cypherhoof said:

Depends on how "non cook" you want it to be I guess - when I can't be bothered to actually make something, but don't want takeout, I usually get ready-to-cook ovenables from the chilled asle - say chicken kievs, tagliatelle carbonara, and garlic bread, which DO require cooking, but the entire effort is "remove from outer packaging, place in oven, wait"

I do a big meal on Sundays, so this is my 'let someone else do it, I'm saving my energy and staying out of the kitchen' day. 

(It's a working title.)

There's some options on the way home, just figuring out which one to stop at is the issue.

[Divine plywood 1,232]

1 minute ago, Cypherhoof said:

chicken kievs, tagliatelle carbonara, and garlic bread

Darn, now I got hungry again!  Time for late night snack

[Longhaul 6,470]

*neatens things up in the downtime*

[CypherHoof 26,479]

45 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*neatens things up in the downtime*

"If they don't wake up, just dust around them"

[Divine plywood 1,232]

Good evening y'all, it's once again time to try bump this thread

Hopefully you had a wonderful Halloween! Though I absolutely despise said holiday, there's one good thing of it: pumpkin beer! Importers make sure that markets and liquor stores are packet of it for the rest of the years

[CypherHoof 26,479]

21 hours ago, Divine plywood said:

Good evening y'all, it's once again time to try bump this thread

Hopefully you had a wonderful Halloween! Though I absolutely despise said holiday, there's one good thing of it: pumpkin beer! Importers make sure that markets and liquor stores are packet of it for the rest of the years

Does seem to have gone quiet in the absence of @Longhaul ...

Not a great fan of pumpkin anything, I am afraid (we didn't even get them in this country until recently, using turnips instead for halloween lanterns) - besides, AJ would tell you cider is the ultimate alcoholic drink (although I do like a good single malt)

[Longhaul 6,470]

*returns and dusts a bit*

[CypherHoof 26,479]

34 minutes ago, Longhaul said:

*returns and dusts a bit*

Longhaul!

*hugs the other gray pony - or should that be grey?

We have missed you; how goes the story writing?

[Longhaul 6,470]

42 minutes ago, CypherHoof said:

Longhaul!

*hugs the other gray pony - or should that be grey?

We have missed you; how goes the story writing?

*Hugs*

The writing is done.  I'm fresh out of inspiration.  How have you been?