I’m off to celebrate my 40th birthday with my family.  Four decades on this planet and I’m blissed out to be able to spend it with the people I love the most.

Had dinner with some family friends last night at a brewpub in Harvard square – good company and the brewpub brought their A game last night.  Their poivre-burger kicked ass and went perfectly with a single-hopped IPA (Amarillo).  I took sips from the flight my wife had picked up.  Helle’s pale ale, chainmail red ale, provision ale, and a kick-ass stout.  The only thing missing was their imperial stout which they’d run out of that evening, but I’d had it a couple weeks previously.  I took a pint of the chainmail red ale – I don’t think I’ve had a better red in recent memory.

This is where I will be over the next few days – New Hampshire’s White Mountains.  We are staying at an inn that has a brewery on premise.  $3.50 drafts every afternoon happy hour so likely I’ll be spending a decent amount of time inside as well…