Adventuring All Over Town

Today we had lots of good adventures.

Elysian had a fun Juice Dust event thing at their Elysian Fields location to promote their new IPA flavor. If there's one thing that Seattle DOES NOT NEED it's another IPA flavor but here we are. Elysian generally does a really good job with events so I was excited about attending regardless.

I was really nerding out over the dystopian fake advertisements they had displayed.

I figured I could drink a plain ol beer at home so I opted for something a little more exotic:

a michelada made with a Juice Dust beer. It was served in a very unique beer can before the top was applied.

Ern wanted a taste of my delicious beverage. Only about 21 more years to wait!

Among the other fun things they had going on was a manned photo booth.

Most awesome of all was they had a tattoo artist on site who was offering free Juice Dust related tattoos. I tried to convince Zoe to go for this but she declined despite already having like 45 tattoos.

We then took Big Ern to check out Sam Smith Park.

I was excited to hit Adey Abeba. I think this might be my first Ethopian food since moving to the Seattle area.

I got the

Adey Special Lamb Tips

Tender marinated pieces of lamb cooked with Ethiopian special spices and sauteed with onions, tomatoes, jalapeños, and a touch of garlic.

The Capitol Hill Series Resurrection

Elysian's Capitol Hill location has a fun and free live music series where they have a musician play at the brewery and have a limited release beer on tap as well. I was excited about it and brought a long a few of my kickball friends to check it out.

Shaina Shepherd was fun and had a fun sound.

The limited release beer even benefits a charity. I'm a hero.

I had to order a glass of gourdfather based on the name alone.

The Elysian Taproom and a Snack

Elysian is one of my favorite breweries under the Anheuser-Busch umbrella, so that was one of the many reasons that I was excited to move to Seattle. I've already checked out the Elysian pub in Capitol Hill but there other two locations have been elusive thus far. 

The Elysian Taproom is much larger and more industrial than the other location so I was excited to see what was inside.

I'm not sure about the ambience of this place. It was very much like having a beer in a warehouse. The beer was great though and I had a really good conversation with the bartender who I want to say was also a brewer.

I was digging the Seattle references in some of their small batch beer flavors.

This Chucky beer is apparently only available in small quantities at their breweries and then at Universal Studios to celebrate the new Chucky movie. I thought that was pretty cool.

When we got home I reminded Lydia that not only am I a pretty face, but I can cook too. The total package.

As far as clearance aisle bags of microwavable slices of animal skin go, it was a masterpiece.