We saw our share of Ponies at Chincoteague, and headed up to Berlin to see a friend of mine from High School who lives there. We enjoyed a great meal at Blacksmith, her familiar. I'm still thinking about that curry chicken salad. Wow.
Side Note: Ever since we moved to Maryland, people have suggested we head to Burley Oak, and we just hadn't. Five years of us being here and we have only been to the Eastern Shore/Delmarva twice.
Traffic, hours, the whole thing. I mean, once you are there, you're all set. But I find it's an obstacle course and even when I think "hey, let's go!" I think better of it.
For me, it's worse than going to Cape Cod.
But there we were, no excuses other than we had to work in the morning on Tuesday. Berlin is such a cool little town, and I said that we should just call both of our offices and say "we're taking another day," I mean, we're there. Who wants to go back! Let's Stay!!! But Doug disagreed and said he had meetings Tuesday morning he couldn't miss.
Burley Oak is located outside of downtown, but is a large facility with tons of space indoors and out. They host music and events, and seem to have quite the lively scene.
First round, I ordered Rude Boy (Red Ale) which is in the center here, pictured with Doug's Bunker C (Porter) to the left, and Deb's Homegrown (Session IPA) to the right. Such pretty colors, and a great variety of tastes.
All three were great, the Bunker C porter was super tasty, and the Rude Boy was as good a Red Ale as you can get. Homegrown feels like a super simple nice Hazy IPA, very friendly and familiar.
When we were at Blacksmith, Doug had the Coffee n' Cream and I decided I wanted to try it for myself. Pictured here in the back right, Doug and Deb went with an Apricot J.R.E.A.M., which is described as a "soda style sour" ale. They aren't kidding. It does taste like an apricot soda, and has a delicious flavor. Deb got another J.R.E.A.M. which my notes identified as "LCRWC" and I'm not sure what that stands for.
Doesn't matter what it stands for, it was like having cake and ice cream and fruit and joy all at once. Whatever a J.R.E.A.M. is all about, Burley Oak is doing it all right.
If we did have the option for spending another day, we would have had another round. But this was a wonderful way to spend some time.
We wanted to be able to make it closer to home before it got too dark, because the last time we drove across the Delmarva, it was super dark, and a little scary driving through all the farmland with no street lights and a lot of unfamiliarity of where we were. But we did want to drive over to Assateague to see some more ponies. We were delighted here that the ponies weren't kept at a distance behind electric wire, but were right up on the side of the road! Cool!
We'll be back to enjoy Berlin (we'll get over ourselves and the driving and the distance) and spend some more time pony peeping and beer drinking.
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