Just What In The Hell Is 'Beer Cruise'?

Well I'll tell you what in the hell Beer Cruise is all about.

Beer Cruise is about as much as the name implies; it is a blog about beer and cruising.  By cruising, I of course mean on traditional, pedal-operated cruisers.  For those of you heathens who know not what I speak of, you need only avert your eyes inches below this very sentence.

Not just any Electra cruiser, but MY Electra cruiser.  Marvel at its magnificence.

Glamour shot.  Keep your peasant's mitts off.

So why cruisers?  And for that matter, why beer on the cruiser ride?  Well, simply put, for reasons unknown to science, the combination of the two results in something magical indeed.  Ripping down to the lake or waterfront on a warm summer evening while slightly intoxicated on excellent beer is an experience without equal.  WARNING: if you do not have access to lakes, waterfronts or warm summer evenings, it is recommended you sign off this blog immediately for threat of succumbing to overwhelming depression upon reading what it is you're missing out on.

As you can see, we have a perfect and infallible explanation in regards to the combination of cruising and beer.  Now, onto the slightly more serious side of things.  Just what kind of content can you expect to find on this blog?  Primarily, the focus will be on the beer, although certainly matters pertaining to all things biking will arise.  My current plan is to sample and review at least one new beer per week, and it goes without saying that said beer must be sampled on a cruise.  The result is just not the same otherwise.  At the same time, I will have commentary on bikes and cruising locations, but I once again have to stress that the focus will be on trying new beer.  And not just any run-of-the-mill mainstream crap you can expect to see your average 17 year-old booting off his older brother (admittedly there may be some of that), but rather I will be tasting beers coming from smaller micro-breweries, especially those from BC, Oregon and the east coast.

Now, you may now be wondering just what this largely inexperienced, yet devilishly handsome young man can bring to the table that some stuffy old chap with a pH D in Fermented Maltology can't.  Well I could easily feed you some crap about offering a 'young, hip perspective', but that would be trendy, stupid and incorrect.  I'll give you my honest opinion, as someone who has enjoyed a wide variety of quality beer for the last 5 or so years.  My goal here is not to urge you to go out and buy the very beer I happen to be reviewing at the time (though I would take it as a compliment to my persuasiveness if you did), rather to just generate interest not only in beer, but more specifically in supporting those small micro-breweries and their efforts to bring new, unique and creative beer to our eagerly awaiting, salivating mouths.  Big, mainstream breweries...yes, they have their place, and they do occasionally put out something new and fresh, but it's the little guys that I can all but guarantee any fellow beer connoisseur would agree are the ones that drive forward with innovation.  And I do believe anyone who enjoys beer beyond the sensation of being drunk (for god's sake there are easier, cheaper and quicker ways to accomplish this than chain drinking beer) should support this.


And yes, I did just use the word innovation when describing beer.  Welcome to Beer Cruise.