1.  Working on the yard during the sun season is a great excuse to get outside and moisten the brow plowing one’s own refinanced plot of land.  Its these sizzlingly humid and gritty days of glorious silt digging to come that I look forward too the most – to enjoy the first crisp soul satisfying sip of cold brew after watching someone else doing all that sweaty mucky nonsense while I lay in my hammock re-reading The Hunger Games trilogy.  Nothing spells a satisfyingly smooth summer as…

Yep, my job is pretty kickass (I would try denying it but drinking and modesty just don’t mix).  So it’s no wonder that I am asked everyday how the hell I got my job and how the hell someone else could too.  It’s the type of question that after awhile you already have set up one of those automated on-star responses, but with a little sardonic mixed in for good cynical measure.   When asked I suddenly get really serious, lean in super close and while looking straight into their eyes, I…

To my dearest: a tasty brew.

Not to be lewd or crewed

But you?

You do things that no other elixir can ever do!

With any mood

Even when unhitched and unglued

There you are,

On cue, and…

I swoon.

At times gentle and kind,

Coaxing and lulling me to unwind.

Other times dark and robust

Igniting inside my guzzling lust!

But oh when you’re sweetly silky

Your lacey legs do ever so sooth…

It’s a new year and a new you (well, for at least the first couple days of January till your chubby bum buys that deluxe box of doughnut holes because your physical trainer made you cry a little…) – but what’s gonna be new in good old NC brew?  In 2012 there is plenty brew new to keep us all wagging our tails or scratching our heads from up and coming breweries (big & small), brand spanking new seasonals/specialties, festivals and a king of the hill beer savvy attitude we’re developing…