Pub #50 -- Gilgamesh Brewing: The Woods, Salem, Ore., November 8

Did we really make it?  The last day of the 50 in 50, and we visit our 50th brewpub?  Yes. Yes, we did!

A few months ago, with about ten pubs left to go, we decided we should make sure we prioritized special pubs in the time that was left.  Of course, there was also the reality of limited travel and accessibility due to Covid, so we figured we'd focus on places within an hour of home.  Finally, we thought we should choose a memorable or favorite place for #50, so we planned to go to Gilgamesh in Salem, a favorite for its beer and ambiance, with a patio overlooking Pringle Creek.

Apparently it had been some time since we were there, though, and in our preliminary research, we realized they now had an outpost in West Salem (that served brunch!) as well as one in Independence, which is about halfway between Corvallis and Salem.  

So we had to decide between (1) returning to an old favorite, (2) getting brunch, or (3) a shorter trip.  Brunch won the day.

We also planned to meet up with our friends Heather and Mark, who had recently been overtaken in the Friends of the 50 in 50 challenge by Vicki (5 to 4).  This visit meant it ended in a three-way tie with five visits each.  Well done, all!

While "The Woods" is a gross misnomer, situated as it is in a shopping center at the corner of two busy roads, even a bland, commercial patio couldn't distract from the superb brunch food and incredible beer selection they had.  Websites don't always have the most up to date tap list, and in this case, I was just as glad they didn't.  For although I like Gilgamesh's creative tea-based beers (Mamba, with black tea and bergamot, and DJ Jazzy Hef, with Jasmine tea), I was overjoyed to see three intense stout options: Hobo Cake, with German Chocolate cake and caramel flavors, covered with about a half-inch of thick whipped cream, and topped with an amerena cherry (smaller, more intense, and way better than a maraschino); I Did it all for the Cookie, a Gingersnap cookie Milk Stout; and Shalom Y'all Coffee Stout, with Turkish coffee, vanilla, and cardamom (made for an excellent Israeli street food hole in the wall in Portland).

I got the Hobo Cake and C got the Cookie (also very tasty, with a great balance of the ginger and chocolate flavors).  I liked it so much, and hey, it's my pre-birthday celebration, that I decided to get another, even though (or possibly because) it was 13.9% alcohol.  (No, I didn't drive home.)

For brunch I got the Red Cedar Scramble, with bratwurst, red peppers, tomatoes, and eggs, and C got the Tree Hugger Toast, a souped-up avocado toast, with bacon and poached eggs.  It was quite chilly outside, but we were able to be in the sun most of the time, and dressed very warmly.

I've told a number of people now that Hobo Cake may be the best beer I've ever had.  That may not be strictly true, but it's certainly in the top 5 of most memorable.

Speaking of rankings, we're likely to have a few more posts going forward summarizing our experiences and identifying our favorites.  We also still need to document our hiking miles.  But the goal(s) have been achieved!  Now we can just chill.

https://www.gilgameshbrewing.com/thewoods

Pub #49 -- Alesong Brewing & Blending, Eugene, Ore., November 1

 Like Santiam Brewing, I've known about this brewery.  I had even bought one of their classy bottled ales (Ginger Snap) last year (but hadn't tried it yet).  It wasn't until we drove right by it on our way to Diamond Lake (along Territorial Highway, southwest of Eugene) that we realized what an excellent destination it was. So we were happy to schedule an actual visit here. 

After the previous weekend's frigid weather, this weekend was stellar: bright, sunny, and in the low 60s (felt even warmer in the sun).  The views across the valley from their outdoor patio were fantastic, and the flocks of loud, susurrating birds were highly entertaining.  (The server thought they were around because of the nearby vineyard's grape harvest (King Estate Winery, a longtime visitor destination).)

We don't often get charcuterie boards, but there weren't many other options here.  Turns out, we should get the charcuterie boards! Their pistachio salami and prosciutto were amazing, the cheeses were melt in your mouth tasty, and the sourdough bread was well-textured. We also shared their Apple & Smoked Cheddar sandwich, which was made all the more delectable thanks to the juices of the warm pistachio salami. Mmmmm!

Oh, but what brought us there in the first place?  Oh yes, the ales!  We started with a tasting flight, and were overwhelmed by the high quality of their barrel-aged blended beers.  Gose Añejo is a tequila barrel-aged sour with orange, lime, agave, and sea salt.  Sharp, limey flavors say "HELLO!" and refuse to be ignored.  Magic is Real is a sour ale with raspberries, blueberries, and vanilla.  The balance with this one, as with all their ales, is perfect, with the sweet and tartness of the fruit coming through strongly enough to balance the sour notes.  Raindrops on Roses is a rose'-styled sour ale with Pinot Noir grapes, giving it just enough of a Pinot flavor to make you go, "Wait, what? Is that wine in my beer?"  And Señor Rhino, the best of a group of all-stars, is a bourbon and tequila barrel-aged imperial milk stout with ancho chiles, cocoa, cinnamon, and vanilla.  But even with all those flavors, it tasted perfectly balanced and natural, with just enough heat from the chiles and spice from the cinnamon, and a lovely cocoa flavor mellowed by the vanilla. C, who claims to find stouts too heavy and dark, absolutely loved this, and we ended up buying a bottle.

Since the flight wasn't really all that much between the two of us, C ordered another glass of Señor Rhino, while I sampled another variety, Terroir: Chardonnay, which, unsurprisingly, is a sour ale with Chardonnay grape juice.  Like Raindrops on Roses with the Pinot Noir, the Chardonnay came through clearly but was so well blended that it didn't overwhelm, it just enhanced the sour ale. They played well together, to put it another way.

After such a heavenly experience, we will definitely be back next year!

https://www.alesongbrewing.com/

Pub #48 -- Santiam Brewing Company, Salem, Ore., October 25

Three weekends left, three pubs to go!

For some reason I've overlooked this pub.  I thought I'd known about it for awhile, but when I actually looked at the website, I realized it was much more promising than I had thought.  Good British pub food and ales, including a few pumped out of the cask, just like in jolly olde England.

So on a VERY cold, blustery day, we went to Salem and chose to sit outside.  At least there was a heat lamp that helped a little, but it was way too cold for pleasant eating.  Still, given how much I liked what we got, I'd bet we'll be back when the weather improves. 

Ales: Firewatch Dark Lager (cask ale), Pirate Stout (coconut notes, aged in rum barrels), Govna Special Reserve Pirate Stout (even stronger on the coconut and rum, and alcohol - 12%)

<didn't get> Sangre de Cristo -- stout in Cabernet barrels

Food: Scotch eggs, Aussie pie, Shepherds pie, Welsh rarebit

https://www.santiambrewing.com/

Pub #47 -- Gratitude Brewing, Eugene, Ore., October 18

 After Plank Town, Mike headed home but Vicki rode with us as we did the full riverside bike path loop up to the north end and back.  We ended up downtown at Gratitude Brewing, a very new pub where Sam Bond's brewing operation had been, across from the new federal courthouse.

They have very good beers.  We got Dole Whip Sour (pineapple coconut), Hey Girl: The Ryan Goseling (blackberry and blueberry gose), Livin La Vida Kolscha, and Mars Light (red ale).  We weren't that hungry after brunch, but I did get a special apple-bacon cobbler a la mode.  Yup, you read that right.

Joining us on this day's tour de pubs meant that Vicki has been with us at five different pubs, putting her in the lead for Friend of the 50 in 50!

http://gratitudebrewing.com/

Pub #46 -- Plank Town Brewing, Springfield, Ore., October 18

 Bike & Brews #3, this time with both Mike and Vicki!  Thanks to Eugene and Springfield's excellent bike paths, we were able to ride easily all the way from downtown Eugene to downtown Springfield on off-road bicycle paths that follow the Willamette River.

We tried to go to Plank Town on Labor Day but they were closed.  I'm glad they were, because it meant we were able to be there for brunch, which they only just restarted.  It was excellent!

C and I shared two of their special flights -- Day Flight (Cherry Wheat, Blue Pool Pils, Oktoberfest, Christoph the Red) and Night Flight (Hobbit's Habit, Boadicea, Black Forest Porter, and Streetcar Stout).  Hobbit's Habit was one of the better beers I've tasted, with a perfectly smooth and balanced malt flavor.

I had a Pork Belly French Toast Benedict (!!) and C had a Brunch Tostada.  It was such a wonderful experience.  We'll be back!

https://planktownbrewing.com/

Pub #45 -- Barsideous Brewing, Lebanon, Ore., October 17

 After Xicha, I went to Indiana for two weeks to be with my mom while she recovered from knee surgery.  Once I got back, we had six pubs to visit in less than a month (four weekends)!

So on the weekend after I got home, we scheduled visits to three pubs, knocking out half of the remaining total.

Barsideous is close by in Lebanon, so I wanted to like it.  Their menu online looked promising, but once we arrived, we learned they were serving a very limited menu.  We had some decent beer cheese soup, but I was hoping for something a bit more substantial.

The beers were pretty disappointing as well, unfortunately.  They sounded good, but just didn't pull it off.  Strawberry Fields (Hazy Summer Ale), Chocolate Casanova, and a couple others that don't seem to be on their website at the moment.

http://barsideousbrewing.com/

Pub #44 -- Xicha Brewing, Salem, Ore., September 20

We discovered Xicha Brewing a few years ago,  It's a Mexican-themed brewpub making German style beers, tucked into an industrial area on the edge of West Salem's residential neighborhoods.  The beer is good, but the food is what drew us in: Empanadas, Croquetas, Ximichangas, etc.

Our flight: Pale Especial (Mango Pale Ale), Clasica (Amber Lager), Cerveza Negra (Dark Lager), Cerveza Escura (Schwarzbier), Bate Bate Chocolate.

https://www.xichabrewing.com/

Play #54 -- Hamilton, Broadway online, September 23

 We're not throwin' away our shot!

Yes, we finally saw the filmed version of Hamilton, since we couldn't see it in live on Broadway in July as planned.  It was considerably cheaper this way, to be sure.  Great show, obviously, but I wasn't sure what to think of ol' Alexander Hamilton by the end.

Play #53 -- I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change!, Majestic Theatre online, September 18

 Majestic Theatre pulled off a musical with real actors on a stage!  They were all wearing face shields and giving each other a lot of space.  It was amazing to see, even if the musical wasn't particularly engaging for me.

It was on video; no audience allowed yet.  I do appreciate their effort to adapt to the situation, though, so kudos to all those involved.

https://www.corvallisadvocate.com/2020/majestic-theatre-i-love-you-youre-perfect-now-change/

Pub #43 -- Steelhead Brewing Co., Eugene, Ore., September 7

 Steelhead is one of the early generation brewpubs in Eugene.  When we lived there from 1995-99, it was one of the prominent pubs, along with McMenamin's High Street Cafe and a rolling selection of youngsters that came and went (some of which we loved, like Mona Lizza Pasta, Pool, & Pizza, and Fields Brewing, with their scrumptious Marionberry Porter).  But all these years later, Steelhead is still going strong.

We stopped by Steelhead on our way home from Diamond Lake, since we couldn't find an open pub in Roseburg on Labor Day that we wanted to visit.  As you can see from the photo, we got two dark beers.  I'm guessing C's was a nut brown, and mine likely a stout.  Lame, yes, but hey.

While I don't remember what we drank (or what we ate), I'm guessing it was because the thing I do remember is hearing the National Weather Service emergency interrupting the TV replay of an NBA playoff game, warning of high winds out of the east causing high fire danger.  The day was so beautiful that I found the warning rather surprising at the time.  Six hours later, as the winds blew up and the smoke rolled in from the east, turning the early evening sky prematurely orange and causing our clothes drying on the line to need another washing to clear the smoke smell, I remembered that NWS announcement.  This was the first day of the Labor Day fires in the Cascades, the ones that turned much of the Willamette Valley into one big smoke-filled room, and forced many residents in the Cascades foothills to escape with barely more than the clothes on their backs.  The smoke blanketed us for about 11 days, with Air Quality Index levels beyond hazardous (the highest level) much of the time.

The terrible air quality caused us to stay inside like we were back in the early days of Covid.  Such a year, this 2020!

https://steelheadbrewery.com/

Pub #42 -- Two Shy Brewing, Roseburg, Ore., September 3

 I must admit I knew nothing about this brewpub before researching Roseburg brewpub options prior to our Labor Day weekend trip to Diamond Lake, north of Crater Lake National Park.  And we weren't even planning to go there on our way through Roseburg the first time (although I did think we'd stop by on our way back home).  But when the place we had planned to go was closed for no apparent reason, we quickly adjusted and went to Two Shy. Very glad we did.

Their beer selection is quite impressive, as you can tell from the flights in the photo.  Jane's Addiction (their Mt. Bailey Cream Porter blended with Port from a local winery), Chocolate Mint Stout, Mt. Bailey Cream Porter, Reformation Red, Tangerine Peach Hefeweizen, Hazelweizen, Toffee Nut Brown, and Strawberry Lemonade Gose.  The porter-port blend was actually quite good, very smooth.  The Hazelweizen and nut brown were also yummy.  I'd avoid the chocolate mint, though.  Just doesn't seem right for a beer.

They host rotating food trucks to provide the nosh, and we got Smokey G's BBQ.  C got the Frito Pie and I got a pulled pork/brisket combo sandwich.  But the real specialty was their cauliflower "potato salad" side -- great potato salad flavor but made entirely with cauliflower rather than potatoes!

https://www.twoshybrewing.com/

Play #52 -- Peter and the Starcatcher, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (at home, O!), August 29

 This is another play produced by OSF that had a very brief run in March 2020 before things shut down. It had a good run on Broadway starting in 2009 (and where we saw it in 2012). A Peter Pan prequel, the play is based on a novel co-written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

This video has some of the same production challenges that The Copper Children had (a very far-off perspective with few close-ups, not the best sound), but as a better-known play, I found it a little easier to follow than The Copper Children.  Still, I hope that OSF uses the crushing experience of 2020 to commit to producing better videos of their productions.  They do such a great job that it's a shame they can't share it with people who weren't there, like National Theatre and Shakespeare's Globe can do.

https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2020-digital-plays/d-peter-starcatcher-social.aspx?promo=21601

https://www.osfashland.org/-/media/pdf/Playbill/Playbill-Peter-8-14-20-LR.ashx?la=en&hash=CC4FB86BD2CB838474524D73AF040B3A653BB467

Pub #41 -- Elk Horn Brewery, Eugene, Ore., August 22

 Housed in an old Rax Roast Beef restaurant on Franklin Ave in Eugene (notable by its signature curved front windows), Elk Horn Brewery is one of my favorite brewpubs.  Partly this is because of their great southern barbecue food and partly it's because of their excellent selection of ciders.  But their beers are quite good as well.  In fact, I'm not sure we've ever eaten at Elk Horn without getting a flight of both ciders and beers.

This flight included Apricot Sour, Samoa Stout (coconut chocolate), Pinot Perry (a pear cider aged in Pinot Noir barrels), Ginger Cider, and El Jefe de Jefe, a creative hefeweizen.

To eat, C got the B.L.A.T., a BLT with avocado, and I think I got the Elkaholic Elk Burger this time, but I like everything I've ever had there, with the Chicken & Rosemary Waffles being one of the best.

As this was the second pub on our Bike & Brews tour that day, we were feeling quite content, even with the ~20 miles of biking we did along the Willamette River.

https://www.elkhornbrewery.com/home

Pub #40 -- Oakshire Brewing, Eugene, Ore., August 22

 On a lovely Saturday in August, we folded up our Bike Fridays, tossed them in the Volt, and headed south for our second Bike & Brew tour in Eugene.  Knowing we had to visit 11 more pubs in the last two and a half months, we planned a day out with two pubs on the docket and a dozen or so miles in between, to help burn off the calories.

First up was Oakshire Brewing, one of Eugene's middle generation breweries, having opened in 2006. Frankly, I've not been too drawn to Oakshire's bottled products, as they tend towards the high-hop (IPAs and Ill-Tempered Gnome) or intense (Espresso Stout).  But after being blown away by the excellent beers we tried on our pleasant mid-day visit, I may have to recalibrate my attitude.

We got a flight of a few sours and fairly normal beers: Sun Made Cucumber Sour, Tmavé Pivo (a Czech Dark Lager), Amber Ale, and No Ghosts, an American sour ale finished on tangerine puree and orange juice.

But the true standout was Chocolate Symphony, an Imperial Pastry Stout with coffee, vanilla beans, and "chocolate ten ways," including finishing on two of Sweet Life Patisserie's Chocolate Symphony cakes! (They poured the fermenting beer over the cakes and let it literally soak up the flavor.) The blend and balance of flavors was incredible! Very sweet, obviously, but balanced by the bitterness of the coffee.  And amazingly, it went very well with the cucumber sour from the flight, cutting the sweet intensity of the Chocolate Symphony and acting as a palate cleanser.

We liked it so much we swung by at the end of our trip and bought two cans of Symphony, along with two sour 6-packs to drink with them.  Then, as we considered how special it was, and how it was likely to go away all too soon, we asked our friends Vicki and Mike to buy us another six cans of Symphony a few weeks later.  We think it will be a great wintertime beer to share with friends.

https://oakbrew.com/

Pub #39 -- Dirt Road Brewing, Philomath, Ore., August 13

 Dirt Road Brewing is a relative newcomer to the Corvallis/Philomath craft beer scene.  I first encountered them at the local Septembeerfest craft beer festival a few years ago, when they were a homebrewer-turned-nanobrewery operating out of their garage.  Since then, they moved into a corner shop (former bank?) in Philomath's downtown.  Surprisingly, we had yet to visit it, and Covid delayed us further.

We rode our bikes over to Philomath for a happy hour meal before visiting the two cats that would eventually become part of our household a few months later.

I drank Easy Peel Gose, a citrusy gose, and C had Lemon Wheat, a perfect late summer beer.  We shared Chicken Pesto and Timber Thai pizzas.  Looking forward to our next visit!

https://www.dirtroadbrewing.com/

Pub #38 -- The Heavy Metal Pizza and Brewing Co, Vancouver, Wash., July 17

 After four days hiking around Mt St Helens and its environs, we finished up with a relaxed, flat, but substantial walk at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.  The birding was amazing!  Swallows moving/hovering slowly over the marsh pond's surface, snagging frequent bug meals.  A kingfisher loudly chittering on the far bank.  A bald eagle, an egret, and a great blue heron squawk into a bar, and mayhem ensues.  No joke to the birds trying to keep from becoming a meal for the raptor, but they made enough of a stink to drive him away for awhile, at least.  A number of warblers, including a common yellowthroat, a striking, bright yellow golf ball of a bird with a stunning black mask, which I just saw/identified for the first time that morning, thanks to my friend Joe.

Anyway, it was good that our outdoor adventure was so energizing, as the pub we chose to visit in Vancouver on the way home was decidedly uninspiring.  It's always hard for me to critique a brewpub, since I value the choice to go craft.  But in this case, the folks at Heavy Metal seem more into their theme of rebellious rockers than in making quality ales.

The beers we chose sounded wonderful, but they just didn't taste particularly good, on the whole.  The flavors often tasted artificial and imbalanced. The pizza was fine, though.

Flight: Mango Madness, Painkiller Chocolate Cherry Stout, Nuttin Else Matters (Brown ale with peanut butter cups), Lemmy Head (Shandy), Peaches for Me (Sour), Beer Riot Stout (Mexican Chocolate)

http://www.theheavymetalbrewingco.com/

Pub #37 -- Barrel Mountain Brewing, Battle Ground, Wash., July 15

 After a couple of days hiking on the south and east sides of Mt St Helens, and two nights camping at Lower Falls Campground (Lewis River), we drove all the way around to the west side of the mountain to camp and hike there for a few days.

Along the way, sort of, we detoured south a bit to Battle Ground, Washington, to catch another pub.  Unfortunately all the outside seating was taken, but that meant that hardly anyone else was sitting inside, making it relatively low risk.  And since it was rather hot outside, and the inside was nice and cool, it all worked out.

We drank Ash Cloud Amber (me) and Be Happy Hefe (C), and ate Shaved Brussels, among other things.

https://www.barrelmountainbrewing.com/

Pub #36 -- Heathen Brewing, Vancouver, Wash., July 13

Even though Covid meant we couldn't go to New York for a family trip in July (where we were planning to see three Broadway shows as well as go to a number of pubs), we decided to keep the week as a vacation.  We just stayed close to home instead, going to a world-class destination we had yet to visit: Mount St Helens!

On the way there, we stopped in Vancouver, Washington (across the Columbia River from Portland), to visit Heathen Brewing's Feral Public House. Great choice!  They have a ton of beers, and appreciate sours as much as I do.  Good food, too.  I got the Peanut Butter Bacon Time Burger and C got two Wicked Tacos: Thai Chicken and Buffalo Tempura.

Wabbit Saison (Belgian saison with basil and rainbow carrots), Mojita Sour Ale (Sour with mint and lime), Aloha Mango Sour (pineapple mango), Raspberry Rhubarb Sour, Guava of the Galaxy Vol 2 (Gose), Pink Gold Peach (Fruited sour with raspberry and peach), Old Timber Nut Brown

https://heathenbrewing.com/feral-public-house/on-tap/

Play #50 -- The Deep Blue Sea, National Theatre at Home, July 10

 The last National Theatre at Home production, and our 50th play!!!  Well, that's some good timing, now, isn't it?

The Deep Blue Sea, a "post-war" play set in 1952 London, follows the existential angst of a woman torn between a fiery affair with a handsome, vulgar lout and her dull marriage to an upstanding judge.  I saw some similarities with A Streetcar Named Desire, but can't remember a whole lot else at this point, other than that it held my attention rather well.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-the-deep-blue-sea

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJgBmjHpqgs5yAmjGVeaA6Zus60ijnmF0

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/jul/09/helen-mccrory-interview-national-theatre-stream-deep-blue-sea-rattigan

Play #49 -- Les Blancs, National Theatre at Home, July 8

 A poignant play about Black and white, missionaries and colonizers, assimilation and revolution in an unnamed African country, Les Blancs was written by acclaimed playwright Lorraine Hansberry, the first Black woman to have a play performed on Broadway (A Raisin in the Sun).  

A tireless activist in the pan-Africanist movement as well as a playwright, Hansberry knew or worked with many prominent Black people of the mid-20th century, including Paul Robeson, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin.  She died at age 34 of pancreatic cancer, leaving the mostly completed play behind.

For a play written in 1965, I was struck by how contemporary and American a view of colonialism it portrayed.

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/nt-at-home-les-blancs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqScZlNlTy8

Play #48 -- The Copper Children, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (at home, O!), July 3

 We had high hopes for this production.  After OSF's 2020 season was canceled, we assumed we wouldn't be able to see anything from OSF til 2021 at the earliest.  Unlike Stratford, National Theatre, or the Globe, OSF doesn't have an extensive library of professionally filmed versions of their plays.

So we were pleasantly surprised to hear about their rollout of filmed versions of a few plays from the very beginning of their season, prior to everything shutting down in March.

The Copper Children, one of the American Revolutions-commissioned plays, was about the history of the Orphan Trains in the early 1900s, where Irish children were sent out west from New York City.

Sadly, since this was being filmed purely for the use of OSF and not for production, the sound and visuals were just not that great, and the streaming quality was weak as well.  It pains me to criticize my beloved OSF, but this wasn't one of their best days.  I'd still like to see the play in person, but a distant camera angle and hard to understand dialogue did not work for me.

https://www.osfashland.org/en/productions/2020-digital-plays/d-copper-children.aspx

https://www.osfashland.org/-/media/pdf/Playbill/2020July_Playbill-Shows_on_O.ashx?la=en&hash=44D761DF39D90A3FB78600A27A46F09F8A32968C

Pub #35 -- Viking Braggot, Eugene, July 3

Bike & brews adventure #1 in Eugene!  We started at our friend Vicki and Mike's house in west Eugene and rode out the West Eugene Wetlands bike path with Vicki all the way to the end, before turning around and stopping off at Viking Braggot for a nice rest break.

Braggot, in case you don't know, is a honey beer, or a malted mead.  It's the original mixed drink, viking-style.

Viking makes each beer with a different kind of honey, and they're all super tasty!

We had a couple flights with Freyja Blonde, Asgard Kolsch, Shield Maiden Saison (raspberry), Ragnarok Imperial Stout, Outlander Doppelbock (3), Reverence Red, Sunna (blueberry and hibiscus), and possibly some others.  Their pizzas were excellent as well; we got the York, with peach, goat cheese, basil, and balsamic vinegar.  Mmmm.

https://www.drinkviking.com/