I’ve been branching out a lot lately. More so in my beer selection. I guess it all started a few weeks ago when I met Sean for a mid-afternoon beer.


We went to Right Brain Brewery, which is located in Traverse City. Just a few blocks from my house so I walked down there to meet him. We had a beer and they were tapping the first keg of the Big Ass IPA. I’m not really a huge IPA fan, but I do love beer so I gladly accepted when offered a sample. And that’s where it started. HELLO IPA! Big Ass IPA is a crisp 9.3% that tastes just so refreshing. Great name that is just fun to say!

After the Big Ass IPA (still fun to say), at a later date mind you, I know what you’re thinking, I tried Bell’s Brewery’s Hopslam.

I tried Hopslam at Bubba’s in Traverse City. They had this 10% beer on draft, which to me usually tastes better than the bottled version. But on the upside the Hopslam is in fact bottled, which means you can get it all over, unlike RBB. I would really like to get these two high gravity IPAs together to do a little testing. Either way they are delish. So check them out and let me know what you think!

Here’s some pictures from Halloween. Jen & I went as the Super Mario Bros. I’m Mario & she is Luigi. We got all of our stuff for our costumes at thrift stores. Well, minus the mustaches, hats & gloves. I think the costumes turned out pretty well. We got 3rd place at Right Brain Brewery for Best Homemade costume.

This Pac-Man costume won Best Homemade costume. I think it’s pretty cool.

Hope everyone had a great Halloween!

How do you celebrate Halloween in August? You carve a watermelon.

Personally I think it is pretty spectacular. That’s also a glass of Right Brain Brewery’s Will Power Pale Ale. RBB is located in Traverse City.