Good news, folks. It's looks the hypothesis I made in my last post actually came to pass: Winter has hidden it's hideous face from the world until the end of the year. It's very obviously springtime here in south-western Ohio. My windows are open, the birds without them are singing, and I've started to notice people outside exercising with greater frequency.


How am I choosing to celebrate the changing of the seasonal guard? With a limited Woodchuck cider that was in production nearly a year ago. Regardless of its age and current availability (I shouldn't have been able find it) I think this cider is a great choice for weather like this.

At the beginning of February I put together a four-pack of beers to get John Likes Beer through the remaining wintry days. While I had only intended for that pack to last me through February and February alone, but now it's nearly two weeks into March. It's in the sixties here in Cincinnati. Rainy, too. I'm calling it. I know we still, technically, have roughly a week left of winter, but who cares. Spring has sprung.


The good news about that four-pack is that only three of the brews I threw into it were true winter-time offerings. I had a hunch that the remaining one, West Sixth's Pay it Forward Cocoa Porter (henceforth in this post referred to as Pay it Forward), was one that could be enjoyed in the depths of snow or the burgeoning rains of spring. Here's hoping that hunch (or, at least, the enjoyed in the spring part of it) was right.