When we got up and came up with a plan it ended up being just to drive out to Stone Brewing and hang out for the day. The place is huge and not anywhere that seems like a brewery or establishment of any kind should be. The entrance walkway is wrapped in vines and you enter to a large stone room with high ceilings. All of the tours for the day were already booked up so we just opted to put our names in for a table and sample some beer!
I was a little disappointed that the tap list was filled with mostly beer I have had before, but at least I knew they were all good. We got our flight and walked carefully with them to an outside seating area. The Stone IPA is still one of the best on tap. The Levitation Ale is also a quality beer. It's funny rating these beers since they are mostly all better than anything else you can get on average anywhere else. They had a Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout that was made with the help of Wil Wheaton from Star Trek. Diana, Matt, and I passed the glasses down the line and talked about each one. I think we had a total of 13 beers. Not bad for an afternoon.
Once we had finished our samples, it turned out our table had been ready so we went and occupied it before it was given away. I got an IPA to have with lunch and we ordered some food. The whole place is just nicely designed. Everything feels open and roomy. Even the inside tables almost feel like you're outside. We had a great time. Then we drove back to their place listening to Argyle Gargoyle and Party Attack, which it turned out Matt was in back in NJ.
Matt had an engagement, so the three of us walked along the water and through downtown a little bit. Diana showed us the courthouse she hopes to work at one day and took us to her school, which has an awesome outdoor patio on the roof with a cactus garden. I stupidly decided I could wear my flip flops on this walk, but they start to hurt after a few miles so we took the trolley back. We picked up some Indian food and brought it back to the apartment to eat while we watched an episode of Breaking Bad. Luckily they've seen all the episodes as well so they didn't mind joining in.
We tried to formulate a plan for the night and ended up deciding to go down to Little Italy and walk around before stopping in at Craft and Commerce. The bar has an awesome craft beer selection, and it's quite popular based on the large crowd there. I started with an Allagash Curieux that I sipped on while we stood awkwardly next to the walkway between outdoor food seating and the bar. I got a Bacchus by Brouwerij Van Honsebrouck next, and damn that was a good sour beer. Another one of those beers I just want an endless supply of. We wrapped it up there and went back to the apartment to chill and watch stand up comedy for a while before inflating our air mattress and going to bed for the night.
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