About Me & My Love for Fitness, Food & Craft Beer

It all began with a few thousand overly eccentric taste buds.  

I have one of those palates that can find pleasure in just about anything that touches it. I love outrageous, unexpected ingredients, but I can also appreciate flavors in their simplest form. My imagination runs wild in the kitchen. Sometimes my recipes are pretty delectable; other times they end with me sobbing over a insipid-looking substance that pervades my dinner plate. Nonetheless, it’s always one more experience in the kitchen I will never forget.

My adventurous palate led me to discover the world of craft beer (do you hear the angels singing?). I’ve been sipping on this yummy stuff for about eight years now, and about three-and-a-half years ago, it hit me and my husband how fantastically awesome it would be to make it ourselves. We invested in the necessities (a brew pot, mash tun, bottling bucket, wort chiller, glass carboy, and a glorious book written by homebrewing connoisseur Charlie Papazian), and we went to town! Ever since, we’ve joined a local homebrew club and have come to find ourselves planning our weekends and vacations around brewing or indulging in some of our favorite craft beers.

With all that yummy food and beer infiltrating my belly, I’ve got to lead a pretty active lifestyle to keep my health in check. Fortunately for me, the final component of HerThreeCheers, and perhaps the most indicative of who I am at my core, is bodily exertion, a.k.a., exercise. Bicycling and running consume about 18–20 hours of my week. If I had it my way (ya know, and didn’t have a job or school to get in the way of everything), it would be far, far more. What I love about these activities is the unparalleled satisfaction I reap from doing them. Whether testing my body’s limits, exploring new sites and scenery, or simply taking some time to zone out from reality, running and biking never fail me. They do leave me with some pretty wicked tan lines, though, but those make for the easiest conversation starters. 

Whether stone-cold sober or with a scanty buzz, I look forward to sharing my many fitness, food, and beer sampling/brewing adventures with you all.

Cheers!
Mikaela