Get that dirt off yo'shoulder

Now! Get that dirt off of your shoulder,

Not to say that I am above taking artistic license with the words of others but then again not that I am the originator of such stylistic prose that it might be mistaken for modern dogmatic doctrine, the words be speaking to me and I be saying them.  So I say brush off the past and make a new start because there is no time like the time that we make.  Spend it however you like; with the one you love or love the one you with.  I might wear long black robes and carry a gavel from time to time but that makes me as much of a judge as does having a striking silver mane whilst driving unsuspecting women to a chilly end in an Oldsmobile make one a Kennedy; with respect to the Senator. 

I say live and let drink.  If your (head) above the hard deck set by the municipal, county, state or federal body that monitors the hooch in your neck of the nape…er…neck o’the woods then have with you the sense of mind to mind your mind, body and blood alcohol level and don’t tread upon mine.  So when an unsuspecting neophyte of the craft beer realm had the obtuse (And I’m going with the “not sharp or blunt” definition here, not the “slow to understand” one because that would just be trite on my part, Hee Hee) sense to tell me at the recent Pizzeria Biga 1^st Annual Fermentation and Beer Bash, held in the theatre built to see dough, cheese and sauce wage an ever marauding campaign upon the bocas (Seriously! It means “mouth” in Spanish and has nothing to do with veggie burgers or God’s waiting room down in FL) of the uninformed in the Great State, that maybe being able to partake in 20 of the finest Craft Brews from all over the Fifty-Nifty United States, including some rich and rare incarnations and alchemical bastardizations of the reinheitsgebot made right here in the GS, might be a bit much for some. Well I had to respond objectively and responsibly... 

So I said… “Only try each one twice!”

The rest true believer is the stuff that legends are made of.  No finer pairing, in the bastion that is Pizzreia Biga, is there than that of the Biga Pizza and the marvelous nepenthe of Craft Beer.  And to marvel at this spectacle of the bourgeois and proletariat out en mass to put it to the test was truly a sight and glass to behold!

The abundance of finely fermented libations is below>>>

ATWATER
DIRTY BLONDE	WHITE ALE
VANILLA JAVA PORTER	FLAVORED PORTER
GRAND CIRCUS IPA	INDIA PALE ALE
VJ BLACK	IMPERIAL STOUT	LIMITED BREW
SHORT'S
HUMA LUPA LICIOUS	INDIA PALE ALE
BELLEAIRE BROWN	BROWN ALE
NICIE SPICIE	FLAVORED WHEAT ALE	LIMITED BREW
ANOTHER CAUCASIAN GARY	FLAVORED White Russian Style ALE	LIMITED BREW
NORTH COAST
OLD RASPUTIN	RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT
BIG SKY
HEAVY HORSE	SCOTCH ALE	LIMITED BREW
DOGFISH
THEOBROMA	FLAVORED ANCIENT ALE	LIMITED BREW
FESTINA PECHE	FLAVORED BERLINER WIESSE	LIMITED BREW
VICTORY
HEADWATERS PALE ALE	PALE ALE
OMMEGANG
HENNEPIN	FARMHOUSE STYLE SAISON
LAGUNITAS
UNDERCOVER SHUTDOWN	HEAVY HOPPED IMPERIAL BROWN	LIMITED BREW
BROWN SHUGGA	STRONG ALE	LIMITED BREW
AVERY
THE CZAR	RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT	LIMITED BREW
THE KAISER	IMPERIAL MARZEN	LIMITED BREW
BEAR REPUBLIC
NOR CAL ALE	CALIFORNIA STYLE ESB
RACER 5	INDIA PALE ALE

ALRIGHT! So maybe I was a bit off the mark, Try each one THREE times!!!  The weather proved to be more than cooperative thanks to a Papal dispensation, a Chaldean Sun dance and the prayers of the Thirsty.  By the By all the best put forward for what proved to be a tip-top craft beer event.  Pizzeria Biga Chef, Owner and Proprietor, Luciano Del Signore was there greeting and meeting all that came to take pleasure in the evening. 

With Alberto De Santis, Matt Malane and Jeff Jepko making all the atmospheric attributes of the venue comfortable and Chef Joe Cosenza presenting an array of “Smack your Nana” fair from the kitchen, guests were absorbed into a gauntlet of fermentation with both the best biga and beer available.  The bar staff was savvy as were the servers on the patio and in the dining room and never did a glass stay empty.  The event was punctuated by having many industry folk in attendance including several proprietors of local craft beer restaurants and retailers along with brewery representatives from Atwater Brewing in Detroit and Victory Brewing in Downingtown, PA and the fine folks of Imperial Beverage there to lend a hand and a glass to the event. 

Ms. Lorraine, Ms. Sophia and Ms. Alyssa

Mark, Tom, Shawn and Raymond

Colleen and Javier

Please and Thank You:  Always great to help out a local business and those in need at that.  Well, Mr. Jason Peach is doing just that sort of thing.  He operates Bedside Healer Bears Inc, which makes the cute teddy bears we know and love and tailors them to give support to our loved ones at their bedside.  Please contact Jason with any inquiries Peach@bedsidehealers.com. 

Keep Hope Alive and never trust a big butt and smile