Sour has been Soured and Upcoming Stuffs

Just a quick update on the first sour beer cooked up in the kitchen: The bucket had been sitting for nearly 7 weeks from the time I pitched the Brett Lambicus over the pound of dried currants, so I got around and ordered a packet of Roeselare Belgian Sour Blend - 3763 from MoreBeer. Pitched it and added the small chunks of Consecration barrels before I headed to work. Didn't take a gravity sample for this third pitch...so no tasting. :-(  Smelled delicious, though!

April has been mostly work, more work and work, again? Sheesh! May is looking to be a good bit more eventful! Elizabeth Cook is gonna be at the Burl on May 4th, and who wouldn't want to be there?!? It is a Thursday, but how could any EC fan miss that show--it's been way too long since she was in Lexington, so buy those tickets beautiful outlaw people!

A short week after that, it's DARK LORD DAY! And who got tickets this year (finally!) !?!

I am completely jazzed up on this one, since the tickets showed up in today's mail! WOOT! I've been preparing for this event for a month now, and so I'm very likely to arrive completely unprepared! LOL!

Backpack cooler and insulated bottle-bag? Check

Nervous anticipation and needless musings? Check

Very decent bottle shares from the pantry? Check

First timer at DLD, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be a blast!

All that and Lexington Beer Week starts that weekend! And this year looks like a total blowout production! Wow! All of your favorite beer joints are having something special going on ALL WEEK LONG! The Lexington Beer Week events all lead up to the Alltech Brews and Food Fest. 

That is a boatload of beer drinkin'/hell raising! Hope I have regained the ability to speak before Ray Wylie Hubbard shows up at Willie's Locally Known, especially since Jim Lauderdale is gonna be at Willie's Locally Known on the 27th of May. What a month!!!

And Ray Wylie Hubbard hisownself will be at Willie's Locally Known in June. WOOT!

(In case one or the other of my two faithful readers have forgotten, Ray Wylie and his tunes have been a consistent inspiration for all the brews cooked up in the kitchen. Many of my brews start out from one of his songs, but if I start cookin' up a tasty beverage that needs a name, I queue up Ray Wylie's catalog and keep cooking until a name comes to me.

It's worked pretty well for my beers...try the stratcgy out for your next day at work: just queue up his catalog on shuffle (buy it first, damnits!) OK OK, this entire post has once again turned out to a blatant advertisement for the best rockarollers around: Elizabeth Cook, Jim Lauderdale and The One and Only Ray Wylie Hubbard.

Advertisement or not, this is NOT a paid statement, though I would happily accept $7 from anyone!

Hope both of ya'll have a great time at the library this weekend!