Running Nowhere

Wednesday 24 June 2009
Track Town Honey Lemon Wheat Ale

Track Town Honey Orange Wheat Ale

On our drive back from a ski vacation at Winter Park, we got a tip about a can’t-miss liquor store in the suburbs of Denver. We took a detour around 470 and popped into Tipsy’s Liquor World (can there be a better name for a liquor store?) at 10:00 am and got back in the car with $250 worth of single bottles not found in Missouri or Kansas. Thanks for the tip, Randy!

The first of these “Colorado beers” that we cracked open is actually an Oregon beer. Track Town Honey Orange Wheat Ale is brewed by Rogue under the Eugene City Brewery label and features a worn track cleat on the painted bottle. Our first impressions were lackluster, and it didn’t really improve from there. I am guessing this beer is made for summer guzzling and general refreshment, because I don’t see much else it has going for it. Read more »

Two States Upstream

Thursday 4 June 2009
Upstream Brewing, Omaha NE

Upstream Brewing, Omaha NE

We took a little trip over the three day weekend to Omaha. It’s only three hours from KC, we’d never been there, we found a coupon for a great discount at a nice hotel, and we heard they had a good zoo. We packed our bags and off we went. Unfortunately, that weekend was the beginning of a bad cold that I’m still fighting. Cough, cough. So during our entire stay there, we went to only one drinking establishment, and I had only sips of Jim’s beers.

On Sunday evening, we walked from our hotel to the Old Market area for dinner at Upstream Brewery. Jim’s sister and brother-in-law had gone last year and recommended it to us. I thought it was worth a bar review, even though I didn’t get to enjoy the brews much. Read more »