Edgy Mama

Jason Caughman, brewer and owner at Pisgah Brewing Company.
Rocking organic brews! Photo by AF Glenn

Asheville’s premier craft beer festival, Brewgrass, is tomorrow. Hurrah!

I wrote an article about Brewgrass for MtX here. It was such fun to write. I found that I have an affinity for, well, geeky-cute young brewers (see above).

If you don’t already have tickets, don’t even bother showing up. The party sold out two weeks ago, and you can beg and you can moan, but you won’t get in! If you don’t have tickets, do still read my article, because most of it consists of a mini-guide to Western North Carolina’s seven microbreweries.

I’m hydrating hard tonight in preparation for the big day. Asheville Beer Blog mentioned a featured beer from last year called Sexual Chocolate. I don’t remember tasting that one, and even tipsy, I can’t imagine forgetting the marriage of two of my favorite flavors.

So, I’ll be there in my Beer Goddess T-shirt, shooting pics with my paparazzi lens, and camping out near the Sexual Chocolate. Say hi if you see me!

1. Someone who can advise me on computer technology for some rather vague plot twists I considering for my Edgy Mama mystery novel. Al, you might just be my man?

2. Suzanne Somers in my living room for 30 minutes every day to make me abdocize (that’s what she does to tighten those abs, right?).

3. Some more Cortisone cream for the weird rash that I have on the back of one leg and somewhere else on the back of my bod.

4. A really good kid sitter who can work on week nights.

5. To stop eating Valentine’s candy because it’s taunting me from the kitchen. What, you didn’t know that chocolate can talk? Try listening.

6. A new toaster oven. Word to the wise: if you put potato chips in a toaster oven to crisp them up, they will spontaneously combust and send foot-high oily orange flames shooting out of the oven door. And throwing the pan of flaming chips into the sink is an okay idea. Unless you have dried herbs hanging over the sink that can also catch on fire when you dowse the flames with water and they respond by shooting even higher before sizzling to death.