Bluesapalooza 07

Brought some rookies to this years Bluesapalooza and for the most part they handled it like champs. We had a great time as always but here are a few hints for anyone coming to future festivals:

1. Come early so you can set up a base camp near the stage.
2. Eat something before you come for God's sakes
3. Pales and Lagers first then transitions to the Reds, Stouts and Porters
4. Eat again
5. Stay away from Irish bars after a full day of drinking beers with 11% Alcohol content.

Tubing

Made my 2nd annual trek to Bluesapalooza in Mammoth last weekend and it was just as fun as I remember it.. Just as fun as as the festival itself is tubing down the owens river the day before. This is a picture of Jim and I after the 3 hour ride. That we drank for the whole float probably explains the strange look on our faces...

Whiskey 101

I wouldn't say I'm a whiskey connoisseur but I do enjoy the occasional glass and the history of the drink in society. I was familiar with the Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant views on whiskey and their fanatical preference of one over the other-

Catholics drink Jameson while Protestants drink Bushmills.

However I was enlightened to a new bit of knowledge this weekend while enjoying a glass of 18yo Jameson. While chatting about the differences between the two the bartender let me on to the fact that all the Irish Catholic whiskey bottles are round while the Protestant preferred bottles are square and that this was done on purpose. For some reason I was fascinated by this tidbit and decided to snap a picture of their wall of whiskey.

I was also drunk...