From the rocky Puffin populated East coast of Newfoundland to the verdant green rain-soaked West coast, it was quite a hike but we are back in Vancouver again. I’m usually shoe gazing but tonight I’m star gazing. Usually when you ask for the moon and the stars, you get one or the other, but as an added bonus maybe a meteor makes an appearance too.*
Tonight The Sky Live are predicting that with binoculars or a small telescope you can see 22 different asteroids and 3 comets. They tell us that Comet C/2024 S1 (codename Atlas) will be visible with the naked eye. Naked they say! Does that eye have no shame? Although there are possibly a number of meteors in the sky (they estimate 17,000 of them fall to Earth each year) they are usually quite small and often not visible.
A tropical storm of hops and fruit is the origin of our meteor of the moment, a Stanley Park sour to be precise. This one was clearly visible center shelf in my beer fridge. Time to see if this meteor is destined for COMDB stardom.
A peachy pour, clear and present. Looks like any head burnt up upon entering the atmosphere of my glass. Wow I’m juiced from just smelling it, super tropical and stone fruit juicy on the nose. The taste is a watery tropical juicy, mango and pineapple with some tart, not much fizz, and a slight bitter tart aftertaste. Well balanced, not too much or too little of anything. Very tasty and consistent from when this meteor first entered my solar plexus system until it was eventually extinguished.
If I’m feeling a touch of scurvy I would be more likely to go to a lime floating in a Corona. Sours aren’t necessarily my go to, but this one was quite good, super summer suds.
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