Blog entries tagged Drinks

I've been dealing with some minor, intermittent skin issues for years. It's been treatable, but last year the eczema came hard, spread further and was a little gnarlier... so I started seeing a dermatologist and allergist. They tested for chemical allergies, environmental allergies, had me change everything that I put on my skin or clothes and none of it helped. I suspected a food allergy or something, but the allergist disagreed, and wanted me to come in weekly to get shots. Yeah right.

Despite everything else they suggested, things got worse toward the end of the year... peak gluttony season.

In December, we did an "advent calendar of beer" from Confluence, so I was having at least half of a craft beer every day for nearly a month - …

I revamped the beer list that Nehru, Nick, and I have been working on. It now has our ratings, pictures, and comments for each beer. Plus it allows you to comment on/rate each beer. Check it out:

http://www.broox.com/beer/

A while ago I wrote that me a couple guys I work with started an "around the world" adventure at the cAb. I am the last of 3 guys to finish the journey, but now that it's all said and done, I have a good understanding of what kind of beers are good. You can see my picture, comment, and rating of every beer, here. You can see our collective ratings here. Also don't forget to check out Nehru and Nick's pictures and comments.

So what now? I'll be going back to hard drinks... Plus I'll try new beers that may show up. Man I'm glad I'm done. Now maybe I can cut a few beer pounds. Stupid stupid beer.

Sometime after I started at Pioneer, some co-workers and I visited this small (smoke free) bar in Johnston called The cAb. The cAb had this contest that if you put your business card in this bowl you could be drawn for the After Work Club. We all put our cards in, and almost all of us won. This club entitled us to 1 free drink per day for the year of 2004, so we decided, that we would attempt to sample every beer (~70) and rate them.

Since I was a late bloomer in actually enjoying beer, I decided this would be good for me. So we started on our Journey. Sadly, we lost a couple along the way, but Nehru, Nick, and I are still going strong... Nehru and Nick are going a bit stronger than I am though, haha. So here are the combined …

My buddy, Josh Lueck, and I got a great picture this spring. It's of him standing on an old bridge that isn't in service anymore. Anyway, we think the picture may be good enough to make it on a Jones Soda bottle. So, please please please vote on it, and give it a high score! To vote on the picture, go here. And if you're really my friend... you'd try to vote on it every day! :). I honestly think it could make it on a bottle. And it'd be really cool if you helped!