The Session #57- Beery Confessions

What better way to break into doing posts for “The Sessions” (Beer Blogging Friday) than on the Month where the topic is “Beery Confessions: Guilty Secrets/Guilty Pleasure Beer”? If you aren’t familiar with The Sessions, it is a roundup of beer bloggers discussing the same topic, from their own perspective. If you read November’s host Beers I’ve Known‘s outline of the topic, he describes several circumstances where beer can be a guilty pleasure, and mine definitely falls into the “a beer you return to even though you know you shouldn’t?” category.

I’ll just say it and get it over with, Victoria. I LOVE VICTORIA. From the cute yellow label, to it’s perfect session-ability (4% ABV), it is great.

I live in Texas and it’s hot, like, 9 months of the year. When I can’t drink an imperial-double-chocolate-barrel-aged-xyz-beer (though most of us have gotten over the seasonal beer drinking standards down south) I gravitate toward a refreshing, crisp pounder- Victoria. I drank it at Houston Dynamo games, on my boyfriend’s patio, at my house, hell, I even got the po-dunk grocery store/cafe out by my parents house out in BFE to carry it for my visits to the rural suburbs.

But, my absolute favorite time to drink it is while slamming back as many dozen fresh gulf oysters on the half shell as possible with horseradish and cocktail sauce. Mostly, this took place at Tampico Seafood on Airline. I can’t tell you how many nights John and I spent there, drinking Victorias, eating raw oysters and chatting about our days. Victoria is my fall back beer, when nothing else sounded good, Victoria was there for me. John even brewed a 5 gallon batch of a Victoria clone (maybe my Victoria drinking habit was getting unruly) to put on tap in his workshop kegerator. When a new restaurant down the street from John’s house (El Gran Malo) was about to open and they announced that Victoria would be on draught, not only was I ecstatic, but I knew I had to go as soon as we possibly could. It was GLORIOUS. I’m not going to justify it and say it’s better than all other Mexican beers (it is, to me) but next time you want to order something to go with your enchiladas, or need a beer to tailgate with in the 100 degree Houston summer, consider newcomer to our market (only in Texas in the last year) choose Victoria, she won’t let you down.