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 rose that midnight wheat shovel it in?

A blizzard of hops?

Why not?

We present our new winter seasonal snow day winter ale.

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.

I stood in the small Scottish village of Newcastleton, signing on for the 24 hours of exposure.

I gazed myself against the other cross-country whippets strutting about in their expensive

white disco slippers.

Overall, I felt underprepared, underbiked, and overweight.

Probably not the thoughts you want before your first twenty-faire mountain bike race.

I was putting myself out there to get shot down and I was already terrified.

I'd finally persuaded my long-suffering girlfriend Pauline to crew for me.

Sure you'll get some sleep, but it's not like I'll need you all the time, and, seriously,

what could possibly go wrong?

Eventually the promise of infinite portions of cake and chocolate sealed the deal.

I'd acquired myself a pit bunny for the race.

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