Intro

 Greetings.

After long months of careful planning and anticipation, our royal beer tour of the Western U.S. has finally begun.  We have trained hard and methodically, each consuming a minimum of 1 US gallon of premium crafted beer per night over the last month.  We have scouted our routes carefully, in search of only the finest micro-brews.  The bags have been packed, Ali’s Jeep Cinderella has been stocked and loaded, and now it’s high time Ali and I (Daniel) got nice and loaded too. 

It should also be known that this beer tour serves a dual purpose.  The primary mission is for Ali to drive Cinderella the two-thousand odd miles from Tucson, AZ to Billings, MT.  Since graduating from the UA in Tucson in May, Ali’s been working a mind-numbing and morally degrading job entering tree-ring data all summer.  The effects have left her poor liver healthy and in the prime of it’s life. 

So now the more primary mission is to drink a lot of quality beers along the way.  As Ali’s drinking advisor and coach, I suggested that I tag along, and that together we sample the plethora of micro-breweries that dot the landscape en-route.  Ali enthusiastically agreed after hearing my wise council on the relationship between healthy livers and boring conversation.

And so begins our journey, the Tasteless Beer Snob tour 2011.  Some beer snobs would go to painstaking and vomit inducing lengths to comment on the color, flavor, smell, alcohol content and IBU levels of a beer, but being the know-nothing Know-It-Alls we are, we’ve elected to critique each beer in our own fashion.  You know, keepin’ it real.  Together we shall update you fine looking readers on all the great kegs from the Sonoran desert to the big sky of Montana.  Enjoy the ride, wish us luck, and keep an eye out, because we might need to crash at your house along the way.  Cheers!