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Beer blogger Lee Nichols: What’s in Your Fridge Friday?
When he’s not writing about politics for the Austin Chronicle, Lee Nichols is drinking beer. Or blogging about beer. Or at least thinking about beer.
Nichols’ blog, appropriately called I Love Beer, is a must read for beer geeks in Austin. He reports on upcoming beer events, what new beers he finds in area stores and the latest buzz around the gazillion new brewers coming to town.
He took this picture of his beer fridge a few weeks back.
What three beers are always in your fridge? Because I’m always about trying something new, and I’m a seasonal beer drinker — winter warmers in December, crisp pilsners and wits in the summer, etc. - there is no beer that is ALWAYS in there. But I’m pretty partial to Real Ale Fireman’s Four, especially in the summer. I lean toward Texas breweries a lot: Shiner, Saint Arnold, and Real Ale especially.
What’s your favorite beer to cook with? My wife does most of the cooking. I think the last time I cooked with beer was in college, and I used to make beer biscuits with Anheuser-Busch Natural Light, because it was the cheapest thing they had in Wheatsville. My wife has a similar philosophy: Whatever cheap stuff people leave at our house after a party. I prefer the quality beer go directly into my mouth.
What’s your desert island beer? Sierra Nevada Celebration is probably my absolute favorite beer, but in that case, I’d need the island to not be tropical, because it’s a thick Christmastime beer that doesn’t taste as good in hot weather.
I’m always on the hunt for interesting refrigerators. If you want to show off yours, take a photo of it (please resist the urge to clean or rearrange) and send it to abroyles@statesman.com.
Photo by Lee Nichols.
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