I convinced my wife to take last Friday off and go hking with me. Little Devil's Stairs in Rappahannock County.
Afterwards, we stopped at a winery. View was nice, wine was mediocre. Hey Walky, what at the best wineries in RC?
Then we did a slight detour and stopped at Juicy Brewing, in the original Aslin location. My second time, her first. They seem to be getting a bunch of 4.5 untappd ratings for their smoothie sours, but the smoothie sours were sold out (again.) I had a half pour of the schwarzbier (good), she had a half pour of the 6% hazy (excellent.) The IPA was so good (the best single IPA hazy I've had locally in a long time), she made me pay $14 for a crowler of it. WE're splitting it with dinner tonight. Then we stopped at Whole Foods, where they had old favorite Parabola (small pour, and MBC Lunch for her) on draft.
Saturday night, the whole family went into DC to check out the Roost. I had an Other Half pilsner, she had an OH DIPA, then I had a 4 oz pour of an OH pastry. Fun place, though it was hard to hear table conversation due to the loud group of black women and children sitting adjacent to us, and someone's dog which kept howling at a nearby table. My daughter said she prefers the Union Market vibe over this place....which I'm cool with because, you can go to Other Half first, and bring your own cans to UM.
And now I have to figure out how to lose the five pounds I've gained in the last month. More hiking, less drinking I guess.
