Kayaking the Chicago

We grabbed some banh mi for lunch. It was quite an ordeal. We went to several places but apparently banh mi is the only food available in Chicago on Mondays. Poor guys.

Sus, Brandon, Natalie and I all kayaked the Chicago River.

That blob in the middle of the river is Goose Island, which I thought was just a beer company and didn't know was an actual place.

After all of that pain to get those damn banh mi sammies, they gave Natalie one with meat. She doesn't eat meat, and rather than just throw it away she sat and meticulously removed the meat so she could eat the bread. Sad!

People in Chicago are so economically challenged that they are forced to drink po milk just to make ends meet.

I think I may have some people buried here. We keeps it Bohemian, not Austro-Hungarian Imperial, up in here.

There was a simple choice at hand.

Goose Island Pop-Up

Every once in a while I check out Eventbrite for local events. I then go down a rabbit hole, and come to my senses 3 hours later having just reserved tickets to 57 local events, half of which are all on the same day and I'll have no chance of attending. Luckily this time was a success.

A yet to exist bar was hosting a 3 day Goose Island pop-up taproom in Clayton.

Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout is like the gold standard among Anheuser-Busch employees. It was a pretty limited release that took place on Black Friday, it got bought up, and then that was it until the next year. One year we were going to be in Cleveland for Thanksgiving so I bribed one of the analysts into making me a spreadsheet showing me which Cleveland retailers were getting the most cases of this black ambrosia so I would know where to camp out on Black Friday. My evil plan worked perfectly.

It's also fun because you can age it for five years in the bottle. When I left A-B I took a few cases of this with me, knowing it would have to last me a while.

So anyway, a lot of the stuff on the menu I'd already had but it was still fun to see it on sale again.

I was real jealous of this set up, where they had Bourbon County set up in the wine cellar.

So much Goose, so little time.