Well, I’m sorry I missed it, folks. I had plans of getting a post up about how you might want to try something besides Champagne for your toast, and I was going to suggest big Belgian Tripels, and… well I got lazy and didn’t get to it.
Then I got busy buying up some interesting beers at Honeygo — Sam Smith’s Stingo Oak Aged Ale, Great Divide’s Old Ruffian and Oak Aged Yeti, and some of those interesting Belgians instead of Champagne — to enjoy while I slaved over a hot stove to make a latin New Years feast. Braised pork, chicken and chile soup with epazote, and the requisite beans. And I just didn’t get back before right now.
I’ll have some posts up for you this week, and if we’re lucky we’ll get a couple more entries in our contest.
Hope this new year is great for you.
Doctor, I concur. Love the Belgian Tripels (and pretty much everything else Belgian…except Stella) and this NYE we had a toast with the Gulden Draak. I know it’s not a tripel but a golden but it has become my favorite beer of the moment. I knew from the $16 I paid for a pint at 13.5% that I had no choice but to love it. Although I can’t say a $64 bar tab for 4 beers is a cool way to go, after 2 pints i just couldn’t stop drinkin’ it. Who woulda thought 12% abv would go down so smooth?
Oh wait, this response has nothing to do with tripels.
Sorry.
Can’t complain about much in a good round of Belgian Goldens EXCEPT the bar tab.
Where were you drinking it?