At work, I actually worked for the most part. I resisted the 2 o'clock temptation of grabbing fast food on my way home from the office and instead stuck to my groceries at home. I spent a big chunk of my down time doing research for my European excursion in the summer and made myself spend a little time outside in the boiling Texas heat.
My favorite accomplishment was establishing a "Drink Around the World" beer tasting society with 27 girls (of legal age) from my sorority. We will be hosting beer tasting nights a couple times each month at various houses to learn characteristics of beer from different regions of the world, how to tell lagers from ales, and what our personal preferences are! Beer is not just a man's game, and we're committed to getting our "brewducation" before the fall is over. I'm also printing up little passports for everybody to record what they've sampled and how they liked it. Everybody is really excited to kick off our tastings in late August! Thank you to my wonderful Mom for giving me the inspiration through her "Eat Around the World" dinner club!
To kick start my research I mosied over to HEB, an awesome local grocery store, and used their "Build Your Own 6-Pack" feature to create my own beer sampler. Despite being 21 for a quarter of a year, this was my first beer purchase. Once home, I eeny-meeny-miney-moed my bottles and chose Blue Moon Belgian Pale Ale for my first drink. As a beer newbie, my conclusion is "It tastes like beer." I finished about 1/10 of the bottle and poured the rest down the sink. C'est la vie!
Hopefully our beer tasting society will give me an appreciation for this beverage that is so popular worldwide.
Prost, Skål, and Cheers!
