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Join us this Friday from 4 to 7 to taste an assortment of wine. As always, our tastings are free and all of the wines we taste will be discounted.
Badger here. Alright, we’ve been scurrying around recently stocking up on some serious brew for the warmer weather, and maybe we lost our heads in doing so. Beer lovers purchasing beer in quantity are not renowned for their frugality. Seriously, ask to check the stacks out next time you’re in. We done got ourselves swole. If we like it- if we think you’ll like it- we damn the torpedoes and grab all we can. If that suggests to the casual observer a certain… umm… profligate degeneracy (I think that’s what my lawyer called it) then so be it. That’s life in the big city. You’ve gotta play to win. He who hesitates is lost. When in doubt, double down. Audaces fortuna adjuvat, et cetera, et cetera. That is, of course, unless I get fired for this. That would probably soften my rhetoric a bit.
Alright. Soooo, the beer’s in, but it’s getting bored. Really good beer, having been made by some of the coolest people on earth, is accustomed to an active, stimulating lifestyle, so it does not bore graciously. We are, apparently, not interesting enough for its tastes. It sits around glaring at us. We glare back at it. It mocks our shabby clothes. We scoff at the preciously clever puns on its label. It threatens to tell everyone about our ongoing unpleasantness with U.S. Customs (Dietary supplements for personal use…. long story…). We threaten to drink it and shut it up for good. It dares us to, saying that if we actually had the guts to do so we wouldn’t have flunked out of massage school fifteen years ago….breaking our parents’ hearts in the process. Sadly, the beer’s right. We don’t have the guts, so we’re stuck… waiting for a white knight to come break the stalemate. Please, save us. Be that white knight. Yesterday the beer settled its crosshairs on our romantic prospects, and its claws are only getting sharper.
Alright, here’s the payoff. In keeping with our very, very earnest desire to find homes for our most restive associates, we are hosting a meet-and-greet this Friday, May 4th from 4-7PM featuring a slew of offerings from Baltimore’s own Stillwater Artisanal Ales. Seriously, we grabbed everything we could get our hands on, so there should be something for everyone. So rep your hood already. Please come join and take part in an extraordinary Baltimore success story. Wear white gloves if you want. Think of it as a cotillion for beer’s upper crust….but with portion control.
The skinny on Stillwater Artisanal. Founded in Baltimore by homebrewing enthusiast Brian Strumke, who worked for Johns Hopkins University before leaving in 2010 to focus on brewing full-time. Since then he has earned acclaim for his daring and innovative farmhouse-style ales. In addition to locally brewed offerings, the “gypsy brewer” has travelled extensively, colluding and collaborating with some of the world’s most respected brewers and breweries, such as Belgium’s De Struise, Denmark’s Mikkeller, and even B’more’s other local darling The Brewer’s Art. In 2011 Ratebeer ranked Stillwater number 2 on its list of the world’s best new breweries. This year found it ranked #58 among all breweries worldwide.