The Oompa Loompa Beer

This past Saturday, Jeff & I ate dinner at Sidetracks in Depot Town (Ypsilanti). It's an awesome place, located (interestingly enough) along side of some railroad tracks. Get it?!?!! They have super food--I recommend the hamburgers, or anything, really--and a nice selection of local beer. They were having some sort of hoppy-ness specials on Saturday, so Jeff got a Bell's Hopslam and I tried something new, called Short's Huma-Lumpa-Licious IPA. It was DE-licious (see what I did there? Genius). It had a decidedly bitter taste of hops (as opposed to the Hopslam, which is more floral). The aroma is awesome--nice citrus smell and gentle hops, inviting you to drink up.

Naturally, I couldn't remember the name, so I have been calling it (to Jeff's chagrin) the Oompa Loompa beer. The website explains where the name comes from, but doesn't offer a pronouciation (Jeff says it's hume-a lupe-a, with a long U and long E sound, short a sounds on both). This all just makes me yearn for a trip Up North to visit Short's in person. I'm hoping the my "teaching math to the visually impaired" teacher training gets reschedule up in Traverse City, because I'd love a side trip after 2 days of the Nemeth Code.

Cheers!!

Cross Posted to Teacher in the Hood