You see here pictured my three favorite beers -- so far. I am a beer fan. I don't go much for other forms of alcohol, but I will drink a good Bloody Mary or a yummy Margarita when they are prepared right, or when I have the fixings to make them myself. However, when given a choice, I will usually opt for a beer, but not just any old beer. I prefer Mexican beers or those with a Mexican flare like the Bud Light Lime.
Many other women are wine drinkers, but I've always been a beer gal. I cringe, though, when I think back upon my formative beer drinking years and the crap beers I used to pour down my throat. Not anymore! I've become a bit of a beer snob, I admit, but I like what I like even when others don't. Not everyone likes beer flavored with lime or lemon and salt, but it is oh, so yummy! And not everyone likes a good tomato beer, and even I thought it was a crazy combination until I tried it -- delicious!
I think being a middle-aged professional, educated woman puts me generally in a non-beer drinking group according to society's expectations of someone like me, but I've never been one to really give a shit about what society thinks or expects of me, so allow me to raise a can or a bottle to my fellow beer drinkers out there. I will say, though, that when I have a beer (which is a few times a week), I do only drink one or maybe two at the most. I never get drunk, and I rarely get tipsy even. I am a responsible beer imbiber. Also, I generally have one while relaxing at home, so there is no driving involved.
Ironically, as I write this, I'm having a Bloody Mary -- only because I'm out of beer. :( When I do go out to buy beer I always run the risk of being seen by the wrong people -- my students -- who then rib me ceaselessly for days afterwards, but I don't let that stop me. I'll make a beer run tomorrow. For now, the next best thing will do. The beer run I'd really like to make, though, involves a trip to Mexico to get the beer shown here -- Sol con limon y sal. Sol beer with lemon and salt. The best beer I've ever had. I think it's most popular and mostly sold in the Yucatan where I had it. It's best I can't easily get my hands on it here, though, or I might regularly break my one or two beers only rule, and that wouldn't be good. Everything in moderation -- well, almost everything. Bottoms up!
