Sorry Vampire Weekend, you could never do this.
….DESTINAAAATION UNKNOWWWN….RUBY RUBY RUBY RUBY SOHO. This song has been stuck in my head all day.
Vampire Weekend Ruby Soho (v.rockuboff)
Vampire Weekend covering Rancid sounds like my adolescent dreams dying. SO AWFUL.
Metropolitan Brewing
5121 N Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, IL
Neighborhood: Ravenswood
Metropolitan Brewery.
Hello to our abundance of new followers! This is the second of two posts this week since our laziness from last week resulted in no post. Continuing in the apparent brewery theme of the week, Rob and I decided to go on our first brewery tour at Metropolitan Brewery in the Ravenswood neighborhood this weekend. Having never been on a tour, we weren’t sure what to expect, but we instantly felt at home as we walked into the huge brewery space and were handed samples of Metropolitan’s Kölsch-style beer, Krankshaft, to start with. The informative nearly hour-long tour was conducted by owners Doug and Tracy Hurst, who led the group of thirty or so around the space, explaining each component of the brewing process.
As the tour progressed, Tracy filled up our airline-sized cups with samples of each of Metropolitan’s beers, including the Flywheel Bright lager (my favorite of all their beers), the Dynamo Copper lager, and their special winter seasonal beer, which was over 8% in alcohol content and definitely left a smile on my face by the time I headed back out into the cold Chicago afternoon. At $5 a person, Metropolitan’s brewery tour is inexpensive and highly entertaining. Rob and I definitely recommend it to any fellow beer enthusiasts in the Chicagoland area, or elsewhere.
-Anna
Metropolitan’s three beers.
Doug Hurst explaining the grain process in front of the brew kettle.
Rob sipping on some Krankshaft.
New post!
Yes, this is my Friday night. Don’t be too jealous. Tomorrow, Rob and I are going to see Crazy Heart and going on a brewery tour for the blog. I’ve never been on a brewery tour before, which is probably illegal in the midwest (not the tour itself, but not going on one before).
He had a hard time distinguishing the relationship between needs, wants, and technology.
(Photo: Catherine Ledner; Dwell, July/August 2007)
It’s sad how much I can relate to this.
