The Four Pegs is a “Beer Lounge and Social Eatery”, which apparently means they serve nothing but beer and appetizing, superb food. I took a group of friends to the fashionable Germantown eatery (1053 Goss Avenue) this Friday night, and we were pleased as punch with our food, if a bit dissatisfied with the service.

So, here’s something you might not know about me – I grew up in Lexington. I had a lot of misconceptions about the fair city of Louisville, but now that I live here, I love it.  In fact, I spend a fair amount of time nagging friends in both towns in an attempt to bring about freer movement between them.  I mean, it’s seriously a one hour drive. In the time it takes you to watch a rerun of NCIS (which is something I’d like to talk to you about separately) you can be in a whole other town with other people and other stuff to do.

I came, I saw, I accidentally stuck my hand in it, I cried. That's about all you need to know about my experience with home brewing thus far. For a few weeks a mysterious concoction had been bubbling away in my closet, disturbed only briefly for some dry hopping (because my beer is either going be infected rot, or bursting with enchanting hoppy aroma). But now it was time for the next step: bottling.

Around this time of season each year a few things start happening - March Madness gets into swing, I start feeling congestion and itchy eyes from my allergies, and Spring seasonal beers start appearing.  Two of these three things make me happy, but I'll leave it up to you to consider the odd man out.  So while I was out considering what brew to pick up for this week's review, and cursing the trees for spewing their venom in my face, all of this sort of dawned on me and I decided to pick up a bottle of Dogfish Head's Spring seasonal beer -

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