{"id":47456,"date":"2020-12-01T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47456"},"modified":"2020-12-01T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T03:01:54","slug":"holiday-writing-exercise-reviewing-costcos-beer-advent-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47456","title":{"rendered":"Holiday writing exercise: Reviewing Costco\u2019s Beer Advent Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I\u2019m not entirely sure why I decided to turn this into a writing exercise, but here we are.\u00a0 Mythical wife heard that Costco was doing a wine advent calendar and being the lush that she is, we basically had to drop everything and head over to Costco, despite the fact that they\u2019re always a madhouse these days because they\u2019re a safe(r) place that mandates masks and the de facto place where people go to hoard and amass supplies, whether they need them immediately or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

So we go to Costco and surprising nobody, they\u2019re flush out of wine advent calendars.\u00a0 There\u2019s not even a space where the pallet used to be, because according to employees, they were bum-rushed so quickly and cleaned out that they had ample time to repurpose the floor space and make it look like it had never existed there in the first place.\u00a0 However, at the entrance of the store, we spotted these beer <\/em>advent calendars, and as a consolation prize, mythical wife picked one up.<\/span><\/p>\n

During dinner, out of curiosity I scoped theFacebook Marketplace to see if any shitheads were re-selling the wine advent calendars, and lo and behold, sure enough, there\u2019s someone selling them, for a surprisingly modest $20 markup.\u00a0 Mythical wife doesn\u2019t even hesitate to tell me to take them up on it, and the following morning, I\u2019m traversing a suburban jungle, find the seller, and make a quick transaction.\u00a0 Apparently, they had purchased several of them, anticipating the potential resale capabilities.\u00a0 As I said, shitheads.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long story short, with the wine advent calendar in tow, the beer advent calendar has been bequeathed to me.\u00a0 And because\u00a0 I often find struggles with content to write about, I\u2019ve decided to use this as a means to exercise my writing chops, and write about daily beers, and it should be quite well established that I am the furthest from a Beer Advocate beer snob there could possibly be: I loathe IPAs, I like sours, goses, hefeweizens, lagers, porters, and basically most things that aren\u2019t IPAs.<\/span><\/p>\n

But most importantly, it\u2019s giving me a reason to write daily, and hopefully I\u2019ll have the gumption and drive to actually follow through with 24 days in a row of reviewing beers that I\u2019ve probably never heard of.\u00a0 But they\u2019re all German, to which I can\u2019t really say that I\u2019ve yet to encounter a German brew that I didn\u2019t enjoy to some degree.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not entirely sure why I decided to turn this into a writing exercise, but here we are.\u00a0 Mythical wife heard that Costco was doing a wine advent calendar and being the lush that she is, we basically had to drop everything and head over to Costco, despite the fact that they\u2019re always a madhouse … Continue reading Holiday writing exercise: Reviewing Costco\u2019s Beer Advent Calendar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,101,177],"class_list":["post-47456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-booze","tag-holidays","tag-mythical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47458,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47456\/revisions\/47458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}