Your Evening Sift

It's Saturday night and Sleepless Night is on. Check the Weekend Widget in the right sidebar for more info but I'll be the first to admit that I'm not going because I like to sleep. For those of you are heading down to South Beach, have fun and stay safe but before you grab your Red Bull and head out the door, check out your evening Sift...

A- Mango&Lime attended the same recent Samuel Adams-sponsored dinner as Food for Thought but concentrates more on what was poured than what was plated.

Sam Adams brewer Bob Cannon explained that with the Utopias they wanted to push the limits of what people know as beer. Well, I think they succeeded.

The 2009 Utopias weighs in at 27 percent alcohol. To make it, Sam Adams uses a proprietary yeast strain containing ale yeast and champagne yeast. As Bob explained it, beer yeast dies under osmotic pressure but champagne yeast will keep going and keep fermenting. Um, okay. Basically, he said, the champagne yeast is what allows them to get the alcohol level to what it is. The beer is aged in wood bourbon, whiskey and cognac barrels.

B- Wide Lawns and Narrow Minds is officially immune.

I got the H1N1 vaccine. I even went all out, whole hog and got the nasal mist version. I don't mess around with vaccines. That intramuscular shot is for pussies. It's a wine cooler as compared to the double tequila shot of the nasal mist. I can handle it though.

C- Carlos Miller wades into the Everglades and gets mud between his toes for a shoot.

In order to set this video apart from what is already out there, I needed to get off the boat in order to shoot the boat from an off-board perspective rather than just stay in the boat and shoot from an onboard perspective, which is what most videographers would do.

Yes, the water is home to gators and snakes, but most of the snakes are not poisonous from what I hear. And luckily, there didn’t appear to be any gators around at the time. They showed up later.

D- There is apparently something now called the Transit Miami Eye that is keeping track of deficiencies in Miami's transit systems. Only at Transit Miami.

E- One more day until the Miami Book Fair, says The South Florida Traveler who also tells us what to expect.

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