Desert's newest Eagle

The Husband and I had been trying for weeks to visit Mesa's newest brewery, Desert Eagle Brewing Company.  FINALLY.  

The tasting room is cozy and the outdoor patio is right along Main Street, offering beer drinkers plenty of shade and people watching opportunities. Our toddler appreciated the beer snacks and the live "Mismas" music playing in one corner of the bar.  All the beers we tried were good.  The Husband especially enjoyed the Buzz Bomb IPA. 

Warning:  if you are planning to go and taste a few beers with your small kids in tow --- there are no highchairs and there is no food (other than beer snacks).  Plan accordingly.

Buzz Bomb IPA (left) and Rye Pale Ale (right)
Desert Eagle Brewing Company
Mesa, Arizona

Recommendations: tons of good beers on tap.  Come thirsty but bring your own snacks.

Tim Tam Slam

Disclaimer: the following post has nothing to do with beer.

Our good friends, Mike and Alan, were in town from Australia over the holidays (don't even get me started on the amount of time they were able to take off work for their holiday), but between the kids schedules and work and the upcoming holidays and our inability to find a babysitter, we decided to have a small dinner party at our house to catch up with them.

After everyone was finished choking down my dry chicken (blue cheese and bacon stuffed) and discussing the fine art of riding bikes and home brewing beer, we got around to dessert (candy cane brownies and ice cream).  They were kind enough to bring us 3 packages of Tim Tam cookies - so we brewed up some coffee and opened a package of the delicious Aussie cookies.

I'm not really sure how the sequence of events went, but eventually Mike and Alan were teaching all of us how to do the Tim Tam Slam.  We all thought they were nuts.

Turns out, it is a real thing:
http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-Tim-Tam-Slam

Tyna captured an action shot of my Tim Tam Slam failure.

Rocket Dog Rye

Poured up with lots of head (pic below was the result of a gentle pour). 

Smelled like it had potential to be good.  Turns out it was not bad but also not very good. 

Rocket Dog Rye IPA (6.9% ABV)
Laughing Dog Brewing
Ponderay, Idaho

Score : 2 out of 5 pint glasses on the unofficial Suburban Suds pint glass rating system.