I Managed Not To Be Hungover! 2021 Rules!

Let’s start planning our trip to Tokyo!

Dub @WMsDiary

Just drank a double IPA by accident

While I don’t agree with the DIPA take, it made me laugh.

Let’s get 2021 Drinking & Thinking going!

Time Your ‘Hangover Shower’ Well

Three of these Hazy Little Things (and their low ABV) helped me have a good morning after NYE

It seems I will forever be searching for a great way to cure a hangover. In all my years of epic hangovers I have never found a definitive cure.

Fatty food, lots of water and lots of caffeine are the only things that sorta HELP. That and a long hot shower.

There is an art to picking the right time to take a hangover-shower though. You don’t want to waste it too early.

If you are in the thick of it and take a shower, you’ll go right back to being hung and having to lie down again.

I like to take that hot shower right at the time when you sense the hangover going away. You can then use the momentum of a hangover-shower to maybe have a decent afternoon.

More thoughts on hangovers and other drink things in this month’s issue of The Glass.

Thankfully my NYE drinking was “mild” which is why I started the year off with zero hangovers, woohoo! Maybe I’ll keep track of them this year.

From my experience, there is no real hangover cure, only prevention.

Video Of The Week!

This is the kind of day I would want to have in Tokyo. I’m also jealous of the freshness of their craft beer scene, and I want to check out every one of these places.

The fun and discovery these two have is what taproom hopping and having good beer is all about. Cheers, Tokyo!

Oh, and how rad was the little bunkbed style seating area in the first place they visit!?

Stop Sending This Dude Beer!

So many times I see industry people and beer media folks (Josh Noel is a well known beer writer in Chicago) complain about how much beer they have to get through in their fridge.

Josh managed to fit two complaints in one; a hazy beer bash and a: he has so much beer he can drain-pour every hazy he has, rant.

HEY, BREWRIES, JOSH IS DONE! Stop sending him your hazzies! Send them to me! (address at bottom)

I’m just bitter, I guess. My beer fridge is empty, two three times a week. I’d love to get to an industry status one day and have such an excess of beer that I’m pouring out beer through my garage sink.

I Love Some Good ‘Door Porn’

Speaking of how my beer fridge gets filled, this is the singles end at one of my area markets, actually called “The Market”.

It has been a big help getting me through this pandemic. Now it’s even more important as another neighborhood place, Out of the Barrel, decided to ignore the lockdown rules of take-out-only (that all the local breweries I know of are abiding by) and let people drink at their place.

Its a tough decision for every bar & taproom owner, I understand. I’m not banning them for it forever, but it also makes me want to only support local places playing by the rules over ones being shady.

Speaking of doors and “ends” at The Market, I hope this Pliny variant makes it to the Market:

You gotta hand it to Russian River, they are keeping their promise of never canning Pliny but also kinda sorta giving us Pliny in a can. I applaud the bending.

Thank you for the read this week! Also big thanks to everyone that shared D&T back in 2020! Really hoping for good things for this newsletter in 2021!

Keep safe out there!

-Mikey