Many of my readers know, that I work in a wine shop. There I often have to try small quantities of wine to get to know it. Sometimes I get some to take home to taste it with different foods. It's very exciting. Learning the customers tasts and selling them the perfect wine ist a real skill.
My husband prefers beer - but learned to enjoy some good wine as well. For many years he has brought selections of different beers as single bottles home and he collects the tops.
This past weekend we had the first beer festival in town. There were more than 200 different beers waiting to get tasted! Well, our tongue can't remember too many different explosions, so I planned 5 different beers a day at the festival and one or two to take home. Actually we managed 18 beers in 3 days.
Most breweries only had large glasses, so I brought my own small one and always got a sip from my husband. This way we both stayed almost sober and still could cycle home.
On top of all this exciting tasting my boss had asked me to assist him at a wine tasting at work on Saturday night. That day I was extremely careful at the beer festival, had some food at home and cycled to work at 6 pm. This tasting was a birthday party and the guests tasted 7 different wines. As I had to talk about some of the wines I had some sips as well. Luckily my boss and I were invited to the buffett the party had brought along and I felt fine. Not just that evening, but also on Sunday. It was a real adventure for my tongue - and liver, I suppose - but drinking sensibly I never felt drunk.
Mind you - I don't need any alcohol for some time now!
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