craft beer week

a week full of beers...

at hollingshead:

tall bottle rogue smoked porter

short bottle of avery dépuceleuse - barrel aged wild ale brewed with sour cherries and in zinfandel barrels, 100% brettanomyces fermentation....... (what a great beer)

on tap:

stone vertical epic 090909 x 3

russian river blind pig

stone / dogfish head / victory brewing collabo - saison du buff - brewed w parsley, sage, rosemary and of course thyme..another great beer x 4

at home with ryan on his bornday:

dogfish head red & white

ballast point victory at sea coffee vanilla imperial porter

mikkeller 1000 ibu

at the stone brewing tasting with ryan also on his bornday:


stone cali belgique
saison du buff
oaked arrogant bastard
sublimely self righteous
13th anniversary imperial red
2006 double bastard
2006 imperial russian stout
2007 imperial russian stout
2010 imperial russian stout
12th ann bitter choco oatmeal stout
2008 old guardian
2009 old guardian
2010 old guardian



and just yesterday...

port brewing third anniversary
avery fifteenth anniversary


happy craft beer week everybody!

port anniversary 4

port brewing 4th anniversary - a self proclaimed "hop monster"......10%

look - a rich orange-ish rust..

smell - orangey hops up front, a wonderful yogurt smell...if you like that kind of thing....,

taste - wow, still the yogurt....perfumed hops, calm malts and low carbonation lend a gentle mouthfeel to this one...the lack of carbonation is odd...not bad but..different....this lol...kinda tastes like keifer (look it up).....some peach to this...and floral..i would say orange blossom....

i have not had a beer this atypical in a while.....i will keep at it until i understand it..i have a few bottles..

i recommend it if you are into otherworldly ales...the hops are brave but not like a hopsickle (moyland's)..more like a hop tide (port brewing) but muted by the yogurt and orange flavors.....

it is a wednesday, my day off and i am starting it with some new craft moonshine..



junior johnson's midnight moon carolina moonshine - 80 proof - 99cents for a mini!

http://www.piedmontdistillers.com/verification.php


nosers - hooooooooooo--alkieeeeeeholll..and a tiny bit of vanilla in there somewhere...fucking ethyl alcohol..

mouth - yep.....alcohol....like rubbing alcohol....propane, pool water (chlorine)....

not much else to say..this needs to be mixer......nothing gentle about it....try it with a shot of frangelico..or 2 shots....or with some regan's orange bitters and grapefruit juice and club soda, a half shot of simple syrup....

today after work i went to hi times and bought some beers

the new lagunitas wilco tango foxtrot imperial brown ale

21st amend/stone/ firestone walker collabo ale w peppercorn/fennel seeds/ mission figs/chia seed. 9.5%

port hi tide fresh hop ipa

st feuillen saison

dogfish head red and white a big, belgian-style Wit brewed with coriander and orange peel and fermented with Pinot Noir juice...

and now some friends are coming over for a bbq