Beer
and bikes seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly, macaroni
and cheese, Bonnie and Clyde, well you get the idea. Anyway, it's rather
fitting that since I resurrected one of my long lost hobbies, amateur astronomy, and combined it with bicycling, that there would be a series of beers with an astronomical theme to come along. Bell's Brewery has just released their Venus beer. Venus, the second beer in the series, (Mars was the first), is out on the shelves now. If you poke around you might still be able to score some Mars,
but I doubt it, as it was a fairly limited release beer. Bell's created
the series to commemorate composer Gustav Holst's symphony The Planets. The beers are being released in the same order as the movements in the symphony. I picked up a six pack of the Venus
and it's very good. It's blond ale brewed with honey, cardamom, apricot
juice, and vanilla. It's a nice tangy kinda beer that harkens back to
the warmer days of summer as the nights are getting colder now. Sort of a
last hurrah for the season. Anyway, I suggest if you're a beer drinker
you go pick up some Bell's Venus, pop in your CD of Holst's The Planets and enjoy a couple. Even better if you can enjoy a couple out on your back deck with a telescope and some stars. Dark skies!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83J68Y7Z1nk
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