What the heck is #temptingtuesday I hear you say? (well, in my head you do). It’s combining my love affair with Twitter, the fun of chatting with great people and my eternal affection for beer. The mechanics are simple, just like its author, where on the first Tuesday of each month I ask the big wide Twitterverse a beer related question. I get inspired and blog the results.
Like an enthusiastic date with wandering hands, the new year is now upon us. Many of us have made new years resolutions centred around health – vowing to increase exercise and decreasing booze consumption (my armband smart phone case should arrive in my letter box any minute now).
But the thing about this new years resolution stuff is that you gotta make it reasonable and achievable, I reckon it’s about starting the year as you intend to finish it – with a damn good beer.
So it seemed fitting to ask the social media world …
What was your first beer of 2014?
Aromas of caramel, orange and marmalade
Very sessionable IPA with a nice spicy character, tropical fruits and dry finish.
And I wasn’t the only one bringing in the new year in beer-style …
Cavalier Berliner Weisse
Bridge Road Summer Single Hop IPA
Hargreaves Hill 2010 The Phoenix
Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Mapel Ale
Brewdog Black Tokyo Horizon
Mornington Peninsula IPA
Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project Jack D’or
Edge Brewing Project Ashes to Mashes
Epic Hop Zombie
Some went local …
Little Creatures IPA
Rogers’
Feral Hop Hog
Cheeky Monkey Hagenbeck
Others went ‘formerly local’ …
Matilda Bay Fat Yak
Whilst others admitted to questionable taste bud decisions …
VB can
Crown Lager
I brought in the new year with Melbourne Bitter, because I was at The Espy and that’s what was there: https://untappd.com/user/beerbarband/checkin/61296846
I like Melbourne Bitter…in such context.