my week in food and drink

Your loving Goldfried's have not been starving this week, that's for sure. It's only Thursday but we've already had quite the culinary and booze-filled week. Enjoy our adventures below. I'm heading to a Body Transformer class (I doubt it has anything to do with robot cars but we'll see) tonight to try and undo all of this mouth-based exploring we've been doing. 

The first beer of the week was Acer Quercus (pictured below). A collaboration between the Bruery and local favorite Lawson's Finest Liquids, we thought this libation was the perfect accompaniment to throwing candy at trick or treaters while eating pizza and watching the Lost Boys. We were quite successful at all three if you must know...

Next we visited the Tavern at the Inn at Essex. Just a short walk from the house, it makes us feel like city folk again being able to walk to a bar and not worry about who's driving. The beer was good. I had Long Trail Hiberator and Evan had a Switchback Brown. Switchback is a local brewery that only offers kegs so it's purely a going out beer. I picked mine mostly because it reminded me of bears. It was good but was quickly outdone as a favorite of the week.

The star of the night though was our braised rabbit potato skins (pictured below). They were a great mix of local produce and game and made for a decadent side for our grilled ceasar salad. I won't lie, I had never had one before but that charred flavor on the crisp romaine was kind of rockin. Score one for the Tavern.

Then last night it was back to what's quickly becoming our favorite spot in downtown. The Farmhouse. We're just dying for someone to visit so we can take them there and just order like maniacs! So please, come visit. We want to get you drunk and fat then fight over who has to drive home.

Last night was an event called Chad's Stash. This amazing man named Chad stocks up on kegs of rare beer and basically has a no holds barred beer nerd extravaganza. It was two pages of beer that made Evan squeal with joy. My personal favorite was the Trapp Family Lager. The Von Trapp family (yes the one from Sound of Music. They moved here to escape the Nazis. Fitting.) has a brewery and their beer is UH-MAZING. Because we were technically at a work event for Evan, I had to drive (lame) so I paced myself but really truly savored what might be my perfect beer.

And without further adieu here are some photos of the hub and I seriously geeking out over our beer.