Merzbrau Cellars

36 bottles of spoil safely returned from a Bay Area beer raid. Hoppy and sour gems from Russian River, Rare Barrel, and Sainte Adarius enclosed.

Not joking around. (at Russian River Brewing Company)

Life is worth celebrating with this lovely gal ,a new job in a week, and a 2011 #Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus to finish. (at The River Cafe , Brooklyn. New York City)

Did that really happen!?!

#Founders Brewing #KBS 2009 to 2015. Decaying to dark soy for older than 2010. Increasingly better with less age until 2014 when I believe the brew itself changed and fell off.

Their last, my first of the summer. Cheers to being back in Detroit! (at TV Lounge)

NYC #threefloyds sighting. #WarMullet. Wish it where a month younger.

Many nights and for me the end of an era. Thank you BBM. You pushed NYC's beer community forward in very big way to me. (at Breukelen Bier Merchants)

@firestonewalker anniversary vertical long time in the make/keep. Favored the younger two because of life and blend.

2007 #ThreeFloyds #DarkLord. 17% of chocolate meaty decaying red orchard fruit umami thick and viscous goodness!!! (at Mugs Alehouse)

Circa 65 years in the bottle between these three.#splitthyskull #harveysbrewery #fishbrewing #anchorbrewing (at Mugs Alehouse)

Heidenpeters nano brewery serving up some very nice pale ale with hallertau mittelfrueh hops and another with American hops that would fair well in a West Coast IPA lineup. (at Heidenpeters)

Rough week (at Warth-Schröcken)

I am a 🐖 in 💩. (at Hair Of The Dog Brewery And Tasting Room)

#latergram from the beginning of an awesome birthday week. #Cantillon cherry #Lambic and #Alesmith Kopi Luwak, Bourbon Barrel aged imperial stout, both incredible and rarer than hen's teeth. Just looking at this picture still makes me giddy.

Harvest today for wet hopping an Alesmith IPA clone with about 4 oz from 2 year old plants in my backyard. Yielded mostly Columbus, some Cascade, and a little Chinook. Tastes pretty good warm and flat half way through fermentation before these bad boys are let loose on it!