Friday, August 25, 2017

Good morning crew,

About a month ago the wife and I were having lunch at one of our local restaurant/brew pubs when the wife espied a poster on the wall advertising an upcoming 'craft beer fest'.

"That sounds like fun," she said. "We should go."

"That sounds expensive," I answered. "We should skip it."

Holding up the glass I was drinking from I explained, "Each one of these stupid craft beers costs six bucks! Say we go to this 'fest' and drink three each, that's six, times six, you're looking at 36 bucks just for drinks. Plus tip. And we're not going to drink on an empty stomach, so add two meals at ten bucks each, plus tip.

"We can buy a six-pack of this stuff at the liquor store for ten bucks and order a pizza at home for 20. I have just recreated the exact same experience for you at half the price."

Going out with me isn't always a home economics class, I swear.

"It's not the same experience," the wife countered. "You go to a craft beer fest to sample several DIFFERENT kinds of beer, and to be social, and mingle with other beer lovers."

I thought about this for a minute and finally said, "Fine. We'll have our own craft beer fest."

"Yeah, that'll be cheaper," she deadpanned. "Instead of one six pack at ten bucks you're going to buy five or six?"

But the plan was already taking shape in my mind. "No, we'll invite a bunch of people over to the house and tell everyone to bring their favorite craft beer. That way we get a big variety of beers to sample, you get to mingle and be social, and nobody has to spend a lot of money. Especially us.

"I'll throw a few chicken wings and a package of dogs on the grill and bing, bang, boom, craft beer party."

The wife started to warm to the idea. "Hey, maybe we can do a blind tasting! Everybody can vote for their favorite beer and the person who brought the beer that gets the most votes can get a prize or something."

"I wasn't going to make things that complicated, but if you want to organize something like that, sure."

She pulled her phone out and said, "I'll put an invite out and see if anybody's interested."

So tomorrow we have about a dozen people descending the house and I've already spent close to a hundred bucks just on party supplies. And I haven't even gone food shopping yet.

Yeah, this is turning into a brilliant idea on my part.

Laugh it up,

Joe

joe@gophercentral.com

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