Weekend Recap – Dinner with Friends & Lord Hobo

Rather than post a regular beer review tonight, I thought I would do a picture recap of our weekend.

We sat on our ass all day Saturday. All it took was an invite for Mexican dinner from our friend’s Sean & Kerry to get us motivated.

I picked up a couple of six packs of Mexican beer in order to stick with the theme for the night. I had never tried either one. Dos Equis is one of my all time favorite beers, so it was interesting to compare these two beers to it.

Both beers were from Cerveceria del Pacífico brewery. A quick wiki search seemed to indicate that AB-Inbev now owns this brewery.

The Carta Blanca was definitely my favorite out of the two. Tough to described the flavor. It was super drinkable and malty.

The Pacifico Clara was much more skunky. I likened it to Heineken or Corona. That said, I can’t stomach either of those, and I got through the Pacifico with minimal unhappiness.

Neither beer stacked up to Dos Equis. I would definitely have the Carta Blanca again, and would never touch the Pacifico.

Sean & Kerry made nachos for an appetizer, followed by enchiladas – both veggie and crab variants.

The food was terrific as usual.

I had an additional beer, which I forgot to take a picture of and I must mention. It was Sean & Kerry’s latest homebrew, an ESB. The brew immediately reminded me of bass (I think). It had a bit of that red beer bitter taste. I didn’t feel like it was all that bitter, although I believe it is the first ever ESB I’ve reviewed, so what do I know??? It was balanced with lots of malty deliciousness and overall was a terrific beer.

Sean and Kerry recently painted their living room wall with chalk board paint. Cool stuff. As you can see, we turned into 12 years olds when we started drawing.

While we were drawing, Sean & Kerry’s cat Nutmeg was causing all kinds of trouble in the dining room. She knocked just about everything off the table.

This morning we headed off to Cambridge to have brunch at Lord Hobo.

I forgot my camera, so you have to live with cell phone photos.

We got there at 10:30. I was going to take a day off from drinking, but how could I? Did you see those taps? And that was only half what they had.

I started with Pretty Things Baby Tree. This beer is a quad that is brewed with plums. I expected a serious blast of dark fruit, but was pleasantly surprised when I didn’t. This puppy gets really boozey as it warms, and the 9% ABV comes blasting at you. I personally liked it best when it was still fairly cold.

It didn’t blow my doors off, which is probably to be expected given that I had no business drinking this beer that early in the day.

I finished off with a Oskar Blues Little Yella Pils. It was definitely more appropriate for a Sunday morning. Not as carbonated as many other pilsners. Quite refreshing. Hints of lemon? Would definitely have this again.

We took the trip down to Lord Hobo to scope it out as a location for the Fall Boston Craft Beer Tweetup. Despite the manager being quite late to work and almost missing us, things worked out well. We were very happy with the space, and the folks at Lord Hobo were awesome when it came to agreeing to all that I asked for (including donating appetizers and a door prize). We’ve got the tweetup all set for 9/18/2010 at Lord Hobo. Invitation will be out in a few days.

I spent the rest of the day on the couch watching a marathon of that history channel show “American Pickers”. It’s about two guys who drive all over the country buying antiques from crazy old people & hermits. Amusing.