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I've got a blog, but I don't consider myself a blogger. I like to write. But I don't consider myself a writer. Perhaps these things taken together explain why I always avoid doing posts--even though I WANT to blog/write. So, I've been looking for some inspiration. Something to push me to just write. I may have found it although perhaps a bit too late. The Session is a monthly writing exercise where beer bloggers all focus on the same topic. Of course, I didn't find out about it until just yesterday, after all of the submissions for the December 2018 topic had already been rounded up. Oh, and it appears to be the final (as in last one ever) call for The Session! Well, the good thing for me is this was a long running series--this final session being #142. While it may not be continuing on (or will it??), I'm thinking I've got archives of topics to pour through to find many writing sparks. One More for the Road Before I get to the archives though, I want

It seemed like just days after my wife returned from a girls' weekend with some college friends, they were already plotting another get-together. This time it would include our families. Fast forward a few months, I was appendix-less and used up all my vacation time. Did we still want to make the trip? It was going to be a whirlwind of a weekend. But hey, if everyone else was up for it we wouldn't be the ones to back out. And I can't lie, the fact that our friends just moved to within a mile of a little brewery called Trillium may have helped persuade us... High Expectations We had super high hopes for the beer, and at times it was met. At others, maybe it fell a bit short. If you see pictures of their beer online, you expect everything to be super bright and hazy. Descriptions of tropical and citrus juices abound. Perhaps expectations were too high? Perhaps there has been changes in quality? I'm not quite sure. (Larry Koestler makes the case for the latter he

Family Vacation-style road trip. Less crashing, but just as eventful. Is it the end of August already**? Huh...better recap our July road trip finally then. I knew I'd have a hard time distilling down a post for this. With that in mind, I'm going to keep this short and sweet, focusing briefly on some of the amazing beer. I can't remember the last time we took a full-blown vacation, but our modus operandi hasn't changed really over the years: get out and eat/drink/explore as much as we can. With kids in tow, that obviously looks a little different (more kids museums), but not by much. So, that's how we started our vacation planning. We'd be driving to North Carolina, stopping a night in PA both there and back, pit stops in Richmond both there and back, and a few nights in DC as well.* In the end, it would include about 1,300 miles of roadtripping. We'd hit museums in Harrisburg PA, Richmond VA, Raleigh NC, Durham NC, and the National Zoo in DC. And bre