What do you do if a winter storm leaves you under three feet of snow?

You pull out the toboggan, bundle up, and celebrate the joy of winter.

If you're a new Belgian brewer, you decide there's no better place to weather a storm

than a brewery and you start experimenting.

Hmm, what about this dark and caramel roasted midnight wheat shovel it in?

A blizzard of hops? Why not?

We present our new winter seasonal snow day winter hail.

And every time it snows this winter in four columns, you could win glassware.

Enter at newbellgem.com

New Belgian brewing, follow your folly.

Ours is beer.

With additional support from Kuat Raks and Patagonia.

This is the shorts.

And you're listening to the dirt bag diaries.

North County Dublin in Ireland has fields, sandy beaches, green and woody public parks.

There are pubs, lots of pubs.

The occasional attached cottage and golf courses.

But there are no mountains and there is no snow.

I first saw mountains when I was 19 and in my second year of college.

College had not proven to be the adventure I taught award.

I was still living at home at a financial necessity.

Getting the train in and out of the city 40 minutes away.

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