Naptown Pint – Beer and Life in Annapolis

I’m Just a Girl Standing in Front of a Bunch of Pumpkin Haters, Asking You to Calm Down

September 24, 2016

This Pumpkin Gets Me

I am in love with the coloring of this pumpkin – which took me over 10 minutes to select. However, I now realize it looks like a bunch of butts from this angle.

It’s been one of those weird weeks where, in the middle, it felt like it was never going to end. But now that I’ve made it to Friday, I’m wondering where it all went. Hell, where did the entire month of September go?

Oh, well. Regardless, both the week and the month are pretty much toast. And after a long (albeit very fun!) day at the office, with our day-long video production event, I’m home. I’m home in my pajamas, eating a pre-made salad from Trader Joe’s, drinking Flying Dog’s Gourd Standard – a swoon-worthy pumpkin IPA – and watching Nugget try in vain to get Horatio to fall in love with her, while blocking my view of the season premiere of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

This, my friends, is what I assume most nights are like for Kid Rock.

It’s Been a Wild and Crazy Summer

September 19, 2016

Don’t worry, I still love beer. And my favorite stool at DRY 85.

Let’s cut through the crap. To say this place has been woefully neglected would be an understatement. In fact, it’s been a rather weird summer.

Even though I’m not a huge fan of this particular season, there were quite a few highs. Work, though crazy, has been great. (I even started a marketing podcast with a coworker.) Mr. Pint and I moved to a new apartment and finally have a patio again. But there were also some lows, which included a bit of an identity crisis about Naptown Pint. And this very first world problem led to me taking an unexpected step back from here (and my column) for… well, a long time.

Thankfully, the absence only made my withered, black, cold heart grow fonder of the Maryland beer community I’ve been lucky enough to call my second home. And I have a bunch of stories and interviews that have been gathering dust on the shelf for the past few months that are woefully overdue for sharing.

But for now, I’m going to ease back into this by sharing a few highlights from past couple of weeks – because I’ve been on some adventures. Continue Reading

Sometimes… Interviewing Is Messy

May 16, 2016

my-life

For those of you who know me, it should come as no surprise that my interactions with people who have the misfortune of being one of my interview subjects can sometimes be as fraught with the same mishaps and catastrophes I tend to encounter in my daily life.

For those of you who don’t know me, let’s get you onboarded with the fact that I’m a total mess in every way. I’m like the Mary Poppins of disasters and general disorder. (One time I knocked over two different glasses of water on two completely different tables in a single 20-second period, as I attempted to walk across a room. It was delightful.)

Why am I bringing this up today? Well, recently I had the pleasure of reliving one of my more graceful moments when I was reviewing a transcribed version of my interview with Ben Savage of Flying Dog Brewery from earlier this year, as part of their 25th anniversary…

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