This post is a part of the 2015 New Beer Every Day Beer Diary Challenge, #ottbeerdiary. Over the course of 2015, I will be trying a new beer every day. Please read the background in the link above, and enjoy reading about the most recently tasted beers below. If you’d like to join the challenge as well, let me know in the comments below, and be sure to check out Grown-up Travel Guide and his #grownupbeerdiary, where Andy Higgs came up with the diary format in use below. You can catch up on all of our posts as part of the challenge under the tag ottbeerdiary.
Day 138: May 18, 2015
Diary entry:
Back to work day.
It’s been a great three weeks of travel, but time to go back to the day-to-day routine again.
Luckily I have been keeping up on checking emails a little throughout the vacation, so rather than coming back to an inbox of a thousand messages to weed through, I’ve already gotten rid of all the junk and know there are no fires sitting in the pile, so it’s not as stressful as I see other people coming back to the office to face.
I know. I shouldn’t be checking my work emails while I’m on holiday, but honestly, just cleaning and managing the inbox, without actually logging onto the work PC to respond or do actual work, I don’t consider to be working really.
Not too many meetings were scheduled for today…a lot of people were on holiday last week due to the four-day weekend for Hemelvaart (Ascension Day), so I was able to get caught up and back into the normal routine by the end of the day.
Workshops for the Q2 deliverables start tomorrow, so things should be getting busy again soon for a few weeks.
The Beer:
Name: La Gâtine Blonde
Style: Blonde Ale
Producer: SARL Gâtinorge
Alcohol content: 5.8%
Bottle size: 0.33l
Purchased from: Local products shop at Azay-le-Rideau, France
A decent blonde beer. Nice bitterness, and a bit of fruit flavors as well. Just what I’d expect from a blonde ale.
Commercial Description (translated from the label):
Gâtine Blonde is born from local Gâtinais terroir, renowned for the quality of malting barley, at the initiative of a group of farmers, barley producers, who love their job.
Select barley batches, from a culture following good agricultural practices, are malted and brewed the old way.
The Gâtine Blonde is a high fermentation beer with a yeast carefully chosen for its aromatic qualities.
The Gâtine Blonde, beer yeast lees, unfiltered, unpasteurized, will seduce you with its golden color and its authentic taste.
To consume in a friendly atmosphere at a temperature of 6 to 8 degree. Stand away from the light.
