My favorite local seasonal of the year–Highland’s Cold Mountain Ale–is being bottled this week and should be on local store shelves next Monday or Tuesday. Hurrah!
In celebration, I pulled out a bottle of last year’s nectar and refrigerated it to help me through the next several days of single parenting. Even though I’m trying to diet, which means cutting out beer and sugar. Sugar’s easy to cut out. Beer? Not so much.
Which is easier for you to go without and why?

As I sit at my desk reading blogs, drinking beer and eating cookies, I say neither. That’s what the bike is for.
Last year, I would have said beer. I realized last night that I have not had a beer since my birthday in September. Nothing planned, it just happened. I like sugar and I guess I have no interest in beer. Kind of sad in a way.
As much as I like my beer, chocolate is far and away the hardest thing to do without!
Definitely can do without beer. Can’t leave sugar out of my diet, no way.
hate to break it to ya, but most beer has a lot of sugar in it. especially that rich, dark stuff.