Duvel Tripel Hop and the parental units celebrate our Halfway Milestone

Ma and Pa Davis are in town and took Karl, David and I out to Enterprise Fish Co for some good seafood and one bomb-ass bread puff lobster bisque.

This deliciousness marks the beginning of a food filled weekend with the 'rents

It developed into an amusing dinner because I've never had a waiter who was so sardonic and disgruntled about the restaurant which he'd worked at for the past two years. He didn't take any crap and I loved it. He began the meal informing us the special Dine-LA menu was 'really stupid' unless you got the lobster (which no one did). Then he took one look at David's ginger sauce and said that it was 'god awful.' He apparently returned to the kitchen and argued with the chef until she made new sauce and the forced her to bring  it out herself (he really relished winning that power struggle). He then ended the meal by regaling us about the biggest tumbleweeds he'd ever seen in Texas/Arizona. You know, normal stories waiters animatedly tell customers.  After thoroughly stuffing ourselves, the group headed back to the marina to celebrate beer number 183 and our halfway mark through the year.

Glorious, glorious nectar

Duvel is David's all time favorite beer and we'd been eying the Duvel Tripel Hop for quite some time. David finally bought it a couple weeks ago. Friday morning I made an executive decision and 'discretely' placed the beer in the fridge and the tag on David's wallet letting him know the time has come for us to drink the nectar.

Beer nerds celebrate

Wow, HOPS! They weren't messing around when they made this with tripel hops. Take a Duvel and add Saaz (which you can taste upfront), Syrian Goldings and Amarillo hops and you can imagine what the Tripel Hop tastes like. They kept it simple and didn't change much. Sadly, Karl doesn't like Duvel but even he is warming up to thanks to this bottle's crispness. I love the bottle design too. It's fitting that Karl is here and personally happy I'm happy because he's been a major part of the last 6 months.

Very fortunate to have Platt and Carolyn in town for the occasion!

Duvel is in the hall of Mt. Olympus as one of the greatest beers in the world. The original Duvel is hard to beat, but the tripel hop is an interesting and ultimately satisfying twist on the original. BAD BOYS rating.

Fantastic way to celebrate the halfway milestone. As I went to sleep, I didn't count sheep and instead counted beer -- 182 beers left on the wall, 182 two beers left. Take one down, pass it around, 181 beers on the wall...