Birch, rather than blank, beer.

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Usually, when we jam on Monday or Tuesday night, I show up with a sixer of a beer we’ve never had, which we consume while we relax before we go in and then another while we set up. Dan saves the labels on a cabinet. We have sampled a lot of really nice beers, especially local brews like Back Fin Pale Ale and The Raven Special Lager, which has really cool red caps featuring the mug of one Mr. E. A. Poe. We were thinking of fixing them to the knobs on my bass, which is red, perhaps.

But this week, my interest in interesting (!) sodas got the better of me, and I showed up at Workbench Studios with some offerings from Boylan Bottling Company that you can find at Wine Underground. I can’t recommend either enough. The sodas are delicious, and the seltzers are even calorie-free. And the guys at Wine Underground are fantastically knowledgeable and damned nice.

But still, no brain-numbing booze this week, so the brown bottles were not of significance. I don’t know in what way, though.

Photo Friday: Insignificant.