Lagunitas: Chicago addition

I've never heard of a small brewery doing this before, but Lagunitas, one of my favorite beer makers, is starting a brewery in Chicago in addition to their California location.

But other breweries are doing similar things. Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are opening places halfway across the country. This is exciting. This means the "smaller" breweries in the country can start to compete with the macrobrewers. I realize these microbrews are hardly micro at this point, but it's a start.

Porch Sitting

My first porch sitting of the season. Pretty excited about that. I picked up some Kobe beef through perhaps a less than licit way. Just wonderful. I pan-seared them, three minutes on each side, and let sit. Then I made kind of a mini-steak fries hash and plated it. I grabbed a 312 and sat myself down on the porch. Very content.