It's apt that this is Beersaturday #250 because this is a short story of milestones and how I managed to try to create one but fail. It's also a story of Formula 1
Okay so I've mentioned Untappd before - some of you even use it. Now I'm getting very close to 5000 unique beers on Untappd - currently at 4991. I've been watching this for a little while and I'm trying to coincide it with something special. One of my thoughts was the 8th of April.
Now this is a date which is important to no one other than me. You see April 8th 2011 is the date I joined Untappd, so I though it would be great to achieve 5000 unique beers in exactly 11 years, but alas that didn't really work, as I ended up way to far behind. So the idea was abandoned - new plan my Birthday which is just under two weeks away which should be pretty doable.
But I still had a problem. I didn't want to get my Untappd anniversy badge on a shit beer and I know the first beer I would have on the 8th of April would be a shit beer. How? I was going to the Australian GP and I know that all you can get their is the sponsors beer - Heineken. Admittedly you can get regular, mid strength and Zero - but I consider all of these to be 'not badge worthy'
After discussing this with my partner I decided there was only one solution. Breakfast beer. We would sneak in a quick beer before heading off to the track, Simples.
So I looked in the cupboard and I found the perfect beer.
That's right - Cereal Milk Stout by New Zealand brewer's Garage Project - it's basically begging to be drunk with breakfast I mean it has cereal and milk in it, it must be good for you.
And this is a great gentle beer - helped by the fact that it's a Nitro pour, and for once I actually got the pour correct from the can, My motor skills are clearly better in the morning than after a couple of beers when I would normally be trying this stuff.
And there is something to be said for a sneaky brew in the morning - it felt a little bit special and a maybe a little bit naughty.
And when I checked it in I got that amazing badge - except I didn't, because although there is a Untappd Anniversary badge it's not for when you joined Untappd it's mean they started - So I earning my Untappd 11th anniversary badge last October.
And then looking at it again to write this I released I didn't join on the 8th of April 2011, I actually joined the 9th of April 2011 - So now I'm going to have to explain to my wife that we were drinking beer at 9.30am on Friday for because I can't read dates probably. Oh Well.
Oh and then I went to the Grand Prix, where I drank Heineken and it was shit, the beer not the F1. You think I would have taken a picture of this to complete the story but as usual I was distracted, But here is a photo I stole from Instagram - I would have been sitting across the under the Melbourne sign bast the gravel trap, except of course this photo was taken on Saturday not Friday when I was there - but hey I've never been good with days.
