Low abv beers with interesting hops feels like a category unto itself, but really, it's a concept bridging a bunch of styles, from lagers to Extra Pale Ales, to hopped saisons, table beers, and wild ales. This is a low abv lager, using Vista and Strata hops. They add tropical fruit notes that come off as whiffs of pineapple, strawberry, honeyed orange, tangerine.
Whole Foods sometimes carries gems for wine, promise. This is not quite that, but is a good wine, worth the price, and pairs well with food, especially roasted meat, rich stews. Grapes - Touriga Nacional, Tinta Roriz, Touriga Franca
Continuing along with Philip K. Dick's Ubik and the Peloton as far as accountability goes! Did some of my reading while I sipped on this Southside variant, Amaro Cetriolo, which translates to Bitter Fool or Bitter Cucumber.
This is just a quick way to catch up and set the tone. 1 - Accountability, maybe, for some things I want to turn into habits. Those things are reading, as mentioned elsewhere, healthy behavior and mindfulness, and tracking the curated way I approach beverages. 2 - Weekly work on
The name is simply Bitter Fool in Italian, but fool and cucumber share the same word from what I can tell. This is a riff on the Southside cocktail - normally gin, lime, simple syrup, mint - incorporating more bracing bitterness from Amaro Nonino and using some cucumber - mint