he said. she said. a married couple's blog.

Just about all of my husband's purchases are highly planned. He does his homework. Take our camcorder for example. He researched what sort of options he'd want and what sort of tapes he'd need, if it would be compatible with our DVD recorder, and so on. With a model in hand, he then researched prices until he found the very lowest one. The result: a camcorder that works just right for us.

So when Brendan heard that Iron City, a Pittsburgh beer, was starting to be distributed in Maryland and Virginia, he was on it. He was searching and searching for a way to get it. He had his mom look at Thanksgiving when she was in Sharon (an hour or so west of Pittsburgh); and he did a full web search. Until he found out that there's a beer and wine store in Vienna, called Norm's that was carrying it. So he and Glen would take a drive out to Vienna and pick up a couple cases when we ran out, and we'd have it for game day.

You have to understand, specialty beer is a little hard to come by sometimes in Virginia. Since beer and wine are available for purchase at the grocery store (which is nice), there's only so much variety. Norm's is nice because they have domestics that I like -- Prankster, Magic Hat -- and imports like Young's.

So yesterday when we were at Costco, we were a little caught off-guard to see a stack of cases of Iron City for sale*! There's no telling if they will have it next time we need it; there's still a case and a half left (because we had to be prepared in case we needed to have a Superbowl party, but we're not talking about that), but it's a hell of a lot closer...

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*And also Smithwicks' which is another favorite of mine.