From Chinatown to Chinatown

Our last day in Boston circled around beer as the theme of the day. Once again an early start for someone who really does not like getting up early, in fact not waking up at all! Period. I only agreed to the 7am wakeup as the plan was to get to Samuel Adams brewery for the 10am tour.


I still had last night's dinner fresh in my mind - so good were the fresh oysters mignonette; the butter poached lobster brioche rolls; pickled beets and goat cheese salad; smoked sea salt butter and sourdough bread. We had two kinds of oysters - salty and rather big ones from Plymouth and smaller ones from Ikapapu (or something sounding similar?). Oh and we also sampled some local craft beers - A had Harpoon Ipa and I had some wheat beer, similar to Blue Moon (should really try remembering to write things down...or drinking less!).


Before we headed off, we had a surprisingly healthy breakfast - fresh fruit salad, OJ, coffee and rye toasts. Excellent way to start the day. We found the brewery super easy and were excited to sample all the great beers we had already been drinking back in the UK as well as a few new ones. All the beers were good and got better the more we tasted - a great little free tour & sampling, highly recommend! The highlights were Black & Gold and Rebel IPA (well, that was A's favourite, definitely not mine as it tasted way too hoppy).


Lastly we bought some limited edition beer to take with us to NYC - a sour Belgian style wheat beer, highly praised by the hipster tour guide. Will let you know how it turns out.
All that sampling made us famished so we headed to Anna's Taqueria to eat some yummy burtitos - carnitas for A and chipotle chicken & guacamole pour moi.
The burritos gave us the last bit of energy to continue our Boston sightseeing before it was time to jump on the YoBus from Boston Chinatown to NYC Chinatown...perhaps some dumplings might be on the cards for dinner tonight?