Hello Sportsfans, Phil Here.

No doubt, loyal honeywineinjuly readers are well aware of the wedding week activities. For those who need a refresher, there's a link in the sidebar.

We are under a week to go and things are moving towards completion, not the least of which is my department- beverages. Man, I love beverages. I've been brewing beer for five years now and these are the tried and true's. Need a little proof? Fine!

Above is the first of the -ahem- quality control samples taken of the wedding beers. A cream ale, this is one of my favorites to pour for non beer nerds. Imagine a budweiser, with a full toasty character, a slight corn aroma and dry enough to taste super subtle bittering. Check out that awesome lacing on the glass! This is one of the four different beers we'll be serving for happy hour and the gettin' down time after dinner

Aside from beer, we'll also be serving local wine furnished from our favorite restaurant and what you see above...The metheglin Karla and I started two years ago. It has really come into its own over the last three months. I'm really happy that we'll have the equivalent of 25 magnums of this lovely sparkling vanilla mead to use for toasts and celebrations this Saturday.

This last week I'll be bottling syrups for DIY italian sodas. We have a few store bought flavors and a couple from our own kitchen, waiting to quench sweet teeth on Saturday.

Hope to see y'all there and in good spirits. If not, I'll point you toward the beverages.

Prost!
-phil