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Happy Labor Day - a day that encourages black-out drinking by constantly reminding us all that the summer is (un)officially over (September 21st, bitches!). Rather than bore you with words (and also because it's 9:15am and I've already started drinking), I figured I'd share some photos from this past Friday's super-secret inaugural Order of Osiris meeting at the Brooklyn Brewery. This will most likely also be the first time I'm seeing these photos, as I blacked-out shortly after 10pm after nearly draining the entire cask of Cookie Jar Porter. Enjoy!

Apologies for the lag in entries - I was on a wicked staycation the past 2 weeks. Well, staycation in the sense that I stayed home about 60% of the time, while the other 40% was dedicated to camping and a trip up to Boston. But that's not important right now. You know is? Beer. I'm sitting here drinking a delicious bottle of Post Road Pumpkin Ale, generously donated by the Brooklyn Brewery for review, which I should have up tomorrow or Thursday the latest.

Used to be that a guy would come home from work, crack open a cold one, put on Wheel of Fortune, scream at the idiots who buy vowels when anyone who's at least attempted to take the GED exam could answer the puzzle, and reflect on a day's hard work. Those days seem to be long gone. At least for me, they are.

Like many fine Americans, I find myself severly underemployed right now. 

Sam Calagione is an interesting man. A novice homebrewer-turned owner of one of the fastest growing, and most defintely influential breweries in the world, Dogfish Head, as well as a celebrity brewer and entreprenuer, (see: Eataly NY's brand-spanking new rooftop beergarden), Sam is all at once a persistent overachiever, an ambitious businessman, a visionary hop titan, and, as I learned this weekend, a really, really nice, humble beer lover.

The worlds of cocktails and beer get along about as well as Jews and Arabs on the Gaza Strip. A high-minded cocktail drinker will look at a gentleman enjoying a pint and some bar nuts and think to himself "how uncivilized," while a malt fanatic scrutinizing the tap list of his local watering hole will roll his eyes when the liquor snob next to him delays everyone else's imbibing by ordering a way-too-complicated cocktail.

COBRA-HOOD IPA

Serving type: on-tap

INDIAN RED ALE

Serving type: on-tap

VALLEY BREW PALE

Serving type: on-tap

Appearance> Warm yellow. Not lively. Hazy. No head. No lacing.

LONDON TAVERN ALE

Serving type: on-tap

LUNA BLANCA

This is Valley Brewing Co's attempt to win over the Blue Moon lovers out there. And I have to say that though I don't like Blue Moon, personally, I think they have really hit the mark. For what it is (a bluemoon imitation), it is perfect. Well done. Enjoy it, all of you Stocktonians with penchance for beer that tastes a little like citrus and perfume=)