A Manly Beer-thday

January is a super-busy birthday month in our house.  Somehow we ended up with three birthdays within a week of each other!  Elinor was born the 5th, Charlotte the 6th, and then poor hubby was born the 11th.  Somehow his birthday always gets pushed to the side and we end up eating leftover pink birthday cake on his birthday :-(


Last year I had a pretty good excuse, seeing as I had just given birth 6 days before his birthday, but this year I really wanted to make his birthday special.  I planned...a beer party.



I decided an easy, quick to throw together party was in order, so I invited a bunch of friends over for Beer, Brats, and Birthday cake.  (Bratwurst, not actual brats.  We already have plenty of those.)



I bought a bunch of craft beers and put them on ice in a metal tub.  I made a beer menu and used a picture stand to display it.  I also got some of hubby's baby pictures and put them on a piece of wood with some scrap booking supplies.  I basically just used it like a giant scrap book page.  I made beer brats cut them into slices and served them with cubed cheese.  Since the party was at 8 I didn't need to serve that much food.  

And the Guiness cake...oh the Guiness cake.  It was delicious.  I used Nigella's recipe, you can find it HERE.