For my second and final Dry January (well, in my case, more like Damp January--I had my planned hiccup weekend and a one-beer, post-moving-out-a-friend unplanned hiccup) post, I'm doing something special. 

I was at a local bottleshop trying to decide what non-alcoholic beer to grab next. The lady working there suggested the Guinness, saying that she's been having customers report to her after trying it, saying "It's as good as the real thing!" With her recommendation (and an observation that it was the cheapest non-American macro option), it was a done deal. This evening, I'm doing up Guinness 0.0.

I need to clear the air before I launch into this post. First, I need to say that this bottle of beer ran me 50¢. It was on closeout at a local grocery store (now that I've moved, expect more of their closeout beers to be featured here--they have some good stuff for dirt cheap) for $2/four-pack. I stocked up. I passed my stock around. This was in February. Today I'm drinking what I believe to be my final bottle. I say "what I believe to be" because I may still have some of the stout lurking about my garage. Who knows?

Secondly, this was originally intended to be my St. Patrick's Day post. A cool Guinness variant for Saint Paddy's? Why not? Saint Patrick's Day was March 17th. It is now early May. That's how far behind I am on things.

But, since I trudge ever onward heedless of time's passing, here we are. Today I'm drinking Antwerpen, a cool stout variant from Guinness of which you may not have heard. Happy Saint Paddy's Day, I guess.