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Thursday, June 28, 2007

311

311 is a great band. And also how many different beers I have had so far with the addition of two organic beers from Eel River Brewing, the IPA and the Amber. The IPA was good, suprisingly good since organics suck. But as Nate put it, it's hard to mess up an IPA. The amber was not so good, which is right in line with the other two organic amber beers I have had. All three have been in the bottom 5-10 beers of this whole thing. This could be because I haven't lost my taste for amber beers (except the couple really good ones), or maybe it could be because Ambers are easy to screw up. Who knows. But I do know it's getting lonely around here. Hopefully you will all be back after the weather gets shitty again and I am up around 500 or so. Just like Frank Thomas.

Also Bomberman is supposed to come out on Xbox Live, and that will be my new favorite drinking activity. I loved that fucking game. bomberman live site

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Another day, another beer.

I am not as excited about posting by myself. I had a Fiddler Green Amber yesterday, and decided gin and tonics was more my pace tonight. I'm up over 300 now. This blog is now boring. On the plus side when I typed it in the labels below, 2 more fiddlers green beers popped up, so I have that to look foward to.

Also, Abby and I have birthdays next week, and plan to party on the 3rd at our house and beer gardens if any of you are reading this and interested in coming down Dicko.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

work sucks

I like my new job, but work in general sucks. Here I sit Sunday night, and I know when I wake up in the morning I am going to want to roll over and go back to bed. Fuck.

after getting back from Seattle, I had a Tap Room No. 21 Pale Ale. It was good. Not sure why these 3 tap room brews showed up on the shelf at Fred Meyer, but they aren't bad and a pretty good price.

Go Ms

Ahh, the joys of riding the train to seattle and taking taxis everywhere. No driving, means more drinking. We hit up Rock Bottom for lunch. I had at least one of everything with the 2 samplers I had, plus extra samples. It was great. Then a Pyramid Amber Weizen at the beer gardens and a curve ball, then a couple other beers at the game and sunday's game while the M's beat the Reds twice.

Rock Bottom Peashooter Pale, Rain City Red, Brown Bear Brown, Flying Salmon Stout, Faller Wheat, Hop Bomb IPA, German Kolsch.

Friday, June 22, 2007

2 more days

Thursday it was time for some Softball. My hitting was off when I found there actually can be skill involved in pitching slow pitch. I just couldn't get ahold of it and hit around 300 instead of 800. I suck. I did make up for it though by bringing sixers of talls of Milwaukee's Best Light and Keystone Ice. They were good and are now checked off my list. Not as good as the mini keg of becks from last week's softball game, but that is already off my list so I needed something different, something shitty. Which brings me to a revalation. I haven't checked off Busch light yet. Holy fuck, I'm sure I've had it at wiffleball, but since I had some for sure at softball in between talls, I'm marking it off for yesterday too. I wonder what else I've missed...

As for Friday, some beers, some BBQ, watching the mariners lose by 15 on TV, and coming home to pack for Seattle and having a Tap Room No. 21 Amber Ale. I sure hope Seattle is due for some hits this weekend... On another note, I got mixed and matched tonight, as I grabbed a New Belgium Mothership Wit and a Skinny Dip for my mixed sixer, then decided to put the Skinny Dip back to get a fiddlers green amber. When I got home, I found that I actually still had a skinny dip cause the mothership I had grabbed had actually been a skinny dip in the wrong sixer, probably from someone earlier mixing and matching. Son of a bitch.

But that puts me at 297. I should hit 300 before the game tomorrow since we are taking the train and I don't have to drive. So that should be good.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

keeping hope alive

I hope you are all still drinking, even if you don't have time to post. Me, I enjoyed some Deschutes Twilight Ale, Tap Room No. 21 Lager, Laht Nappur Scottish Ale, and Laht Nappur Hefeweizen over the last few days. This weekend I head to Seattle with the hopes of knocking some more Seattle brews off the list and watching the Mariners win some games.

Also a league for Ultimate Frisbee started in town, which means I might work off a few of these beers, which would be nice.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

couple more on the list

Some softball Thursday (batting up around .800 still, nice), some golf on Friday (would have been perfect if I hadn't fallen in the creek trying to retreive a ball, but hey, the $100 I had to spend on new clothes matched up nice against the putter I won for long drive), some nice dinner on Saturday for our anniversary and dad's day rolled into one, and some ultimate frisbee on Sunday (cause I am rollin at least an extra 5 pounds on top of the 15 I was already overweight before 365) and all in all I had a good weekend. Of course I forgot to get online to my fantasy team and put in the new guys I traded for, including Bonds, but not putting in my new guys isn't going to hurt being 2nd to last very much.

Full Sail Old Boardhead Barleywine, Bridgeport Haymaker, Rogue Brutal Bitter, Harps Lager, and another black and tan, cause you can't have harps without a black and tan afterwords. Then I spent time screwing with the stereo, new TV, cable box, hookups, wiring,....yeah, basically I need another drink. So a 22 of Rogue Juniper Pale Ale, and I am feeling a lot less pissed off. Although I did find out that widescreen movies play real small on HD tvs, which means its probably back to the store for an exchange. Son of a bitch.

and that makes 288.

Florida Beers

All I can say is I hate the stupid no liquids on the plane rule. What a crock of shit. If it weren't for that, I would have carried a whole slew of beers I had never heard of before back from Florida with me after spending the past week there. As it stands, I got some good ones in while I was there, but the lost potential is a real thorn in my side.


6/4/2007 Pike Brewing Monk's Uncle Tripel Ale
6/5/2007 East African Breweries Tusker Finest Quality Lager
6/6/2007 Kronenbourg 1664
6/7/2007 Kirin
6/8/2007 Skagit River Brewing Beagle Beer
6/9/2007 Ybor Gold Light
6/10/2007 Ybor Gold Amber Lager
6/11/2007 Dunedin Brewery Celtic Gold Ale
6/12/2007 Macau Euro-Asian Beer (Not a Florida beer, but one I hadn't seen that was on special at Frenchy's. It's from China and guaranteed Formaldehyde-free)
6/13/2007 Margaritaville Brewing Co Tarpon Spoon Pilsner
6/14/2007 Ybor Gold Wheat Ale
6/15/2007 Ybor Gold Gaspar's Porter
6/16/2007 Yuengling Traditional Lager

Saturday, June 16, 2007

Little Diamonds in the Rough

Don't you love it when you're out of town and you stumble into a local bar and there are 6 or seven beers you haven't had yet or even heard of? Oh, and you also have a few days there so you can keep coming back for more? Me too. This last weekend(thurs-sun) I was down in Manzanita, OR (think Cannon Beach) and was staying at this beautiful 5 bedroom home on the ocean for a friend's 30th bday. On the first night we cracked a few brews, played some 8-ball and I had the following two beers. (These dates won't match when I was drinking them becuase I was catching up)

6/5/2007 Henry Weinhardts

6/6/2007 Henry Weinhardt's Summer Wheat

They tasted like, well, Henry's I guess.

The next day we sent to play some golf in the pouring rain, good thing we brought trash bags to wear over our clothes. Classy, I know. This is when we discovered Bill's Tavern. The next several hours are a blur because after drinking massive amounts of Bud Light during golf then drinking this heavy stuff, my mind was in a blender. The hot tub afterwards almost pushed me over the puke edge.

6/7/2007 Rogue's Hazelnut Brown Nectar - Wasn't my favorite of the bunch, but held its own.

6/8/2007 Marshall's Mighty Bitter - This is the first time my puke reflex acted that day.

6/9/2007 Smokey the Porter - Should not have chosen the Porter at this point, but the decision making skills were gone on hole 14.

6/10/2007 Bronze Ale - Aaah, refreshing. Time to drive back to the house.

The next morning I wasn't feeling so well, so me and the guys decided to head to Bill's again to see if we could clear our head's. The best part is while were doing this, the ladies are having a blast of their own at the spa and don't care what were doing. Perfect!

6/11/2007 2x4 Stout - Smart, got this one out of the way first. Thick as mud.

6/12/2007 Duck Dive Pale Ale - My favorite of the bunch including the day before.

6/13/2007 McMenamin's Ruby Ale - Felt a little gay and for some reason wanted to follow a road with the Roloff's. If you get this reference, wow!

6/14/2007 Blackberry Beauty - See the difference between showing up to the bar already wasted and not. Yesterday I saved the muddy stuff for last, today, finished off with a fruity one, its reminded me of Nate.

Now that I'm back in Seattle, I hit of the Wing Dome this week. Just love going in there an admiring my pic on the wall for eating the 7 alarm fire wing that they sell individually due to the chance of spontaneous ass explosion and colon corruption. I should market that wing to Hollywood types as a detox diet. "Eat one of these and call me when you can poop w/o it hurting." 3 days later, their 10 lbs lighter and light as a bird.


6/15/2007 Old Seattle Lager - My brother suggested this one. It was ok, but not as good for me as a lighter larger normally would be.

Last night I went out for another bday and since I had gotten up at 4:30am that day, I was dragging before it was time to go out. What do you do in that case, you run to the gas station and you find Sparks..... While at the gas station, what's this I see? A Spark's like drink for only 0.99 cents, it has to be good! Oooh, there's two flavors tooooooo, hooray!

6/16/2007 - 3 Sum - Get it, threesome, genius! I am sure that someone got paid a lot of money to think of that and it makes me sad. I coulda been that person.

6/17/2007 - 3 Sum Green Apple - Almost made my tongue rebel against me and hop right out of my fucking mouth. Seriously, it got and was heading to the exits. It was 0.99 cents though, I'll probably have it again.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Dear Alcohol,

First & foremost, let me tell you that I'm a huge fan of yours. As my friend, you always seem to be there when needed. The perfect post-work cocktail, a beer at the game, and you're even around at the holidays, hidden inside chocolates, as you warm us when we're stuck in the midst of endless family gatherings. However, lately I've been wondering about your intentions. While I want to believe that you have my best interests atheart, I feel that your influence has led to some unwise consequences:

1. Phone calls: While I agree with you that communication is important, I question the suggestion that any conversation of substance or necessity takes place after 2 a.m.

2. Eating: Now, you know I love a good meal, but why do you suggest that I eat a taco with fire sauce, along with a big Italian meatball and some stale bbq chips (washed down with WINE & topped off with a Kit Kat after a few cheese curls & chili cheese fries)? I'm an eclectic eater, but I think you went too far this time.

3. Clumsiness: Unless you're subtly trying to tell me that I need to do more yoga to improve my balance, I see NO need to hammer the issue home by causing me to fall down. It's completely unnecessary, and the black & blue marks that appear on my body mysteriously the next day are beyond me. Similarly, it should never take me more than 45 seconds to get the front door key into the lock. (And I know what my bathtub looks like I don't need a close up of it after falling off the pot, it's really hard to get outta there.)

4. Furthermore: The hangovers have GOT to stop. This is getting
ridiculous. I know a little penance for our previous evening's debauchery may be in order, but the 3pm hangover immobility is completely unacceptable. My entire day is shot. I ask that, if the proper precautions are taken (water, vitamin B, bread products, aspirin) prior to going to sleep/passing out face down on the kitchen floor with a bag of popcorn, the hangover should be minimal & in no way interfere with my daily activities.

Alcohol, I have enjoyed our friendship for some years now & would like to ensure that we remain on good terms. You've been the invoker of great stories, the provocation for much laughter, and the needed companion when I just don't know what to do with the extra money in my pockets.

In order to continue this friendship, I ask that you carefully review my grievances above & address them immediately. I will look for an answer no later than Thursday 3pm (pre-happy hour) on your possible solutions & hopefully, we can continue this fruitful partnership.

Thank you,
Your biggest fan,

Nate

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

makeup beers

How do you fix the sadness of missing two sam adams beers? You go and buy them and sit in the hot tub and drink them.
6/12 Sam Adams Boston Lager and Sam Adams Light

Monday, June 11, 2007

whoops

I totally forgot the beers in between that helped put me to 280 and one that makes it actually 281...
At the reunion we went to what can only be described as a hick party, where the Keystone Light flowed like water. I also got a case of Session Lager from Full Sail on the way over to Dayton and had some of those over the weekend. I had some pretty good Beach Bum Wheat at the golf course in Walla Walla, and then found out it was released by Anheauser Busch. WTF? Described on real beer blog, you can make a Dirty Blonde similar to a black and tan, and now I just need to find some in bottle form to try this. After golfing I was drunk, so hit up the chevron for a Tilt Green (can't find this anywhere online, but sure as shit it was green instead of orange.) and that kept me mostly awake on the way back to drink and BBQ. All in all, a good weekend.

Laht Nappur

Here is me winning the family reunion golf tournament.

...And for the end of my busy week, I had a bunch of beers from the new brewery I found called Laht Nappur (Drink to Life) in Waitsburg, WA. The brewery is only a year or so old, with some outstanding beer. The owner went to study to open a vineyard, and decided he just liked beer too much and opened a brewery instead in Wine Country. I bought a couple growlers full, one of the Scottish Ale anniversary brew, and one of the hefeweizen that Abby said was outstanding. And since she was driving, I tried a bunch of beers. They serve big 4 oz tasters, small pints, regular pints, and imperial pints, plus growlers and mason jars and party pigs and kegs to go. Pretty sweet place and they are already expanding they are doing so well. Anyone up for a wine tasting/brewery trip to the east side?

6/10 Laht Nappur Cream Stout, Mike's Golden Ale, Laht Nappur IPA, Laht Nappur Oatmeal Stout, Laht Nappur Nut Brown.

I'll have the scottish and hefe this week, plus there is a pale but Abby drank most of it so I can't count that. Gives me a reason to go back though since they have other beers seasonally besides the Scottish. But I liked every one of these babies, plus now have 2 more growlers to fill at BJs when I am in Portland, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

on a sadder note, sometime during the last couple weeks either I drank two sam adams beers from my fridge and don't remember, or someone drank them for me. on a happier note, I get to go buy them again and drink them. yippee.

Also, I am at #280. Not sure how many days since I was using Nate's posts as my measure to make sure I was over double, but I am pretty sure I am still way ahead and going strong. Tonight as I type this I am not having a beer. On top of that I'm not having wine or liquor either, as I figured my body has deserved it after 4+ months of fun in a bottle... I may even go to sleep early. That's crazy talk.

oh baby oh mama

Well, since I left you last, there has been one post. How about anyone who is still drinking, chime in. I think it's down to Nate, Trout, Dicko, Gus (me), and Ed, although Ed keeps track on paper the old fashioned way, and Nate is a no-show lately. Only 8 more months, common pussies.

For me that last week was a blur of work and family reunion this weekend. High points, I played some more good golf, found a new brewery near Walla Walla, got tore up from the floor up watching Hot Fuzz at the theatre pub, and kept my average around .850 in softball while pulling both quad muscles.

Beers (part 1):
Siletz Winter Warmer Ale, Rogue Sea Otter Amber Ale, Rogue Mocha Porter, Siletz Chocolate Porter, Kona Wailua Wheat (so good we drank it til they ran out), and Siletz Wolly Bully.

Monday, June 4, 2007

Funny story about the Snoqualmie brewing company, I almost got married at the winery(across the street) by their resident pastor and the reception was to be held on the steam train which the porter is named after. Well we didnt end up getting married there because the mentioned pastor kind of gave us the creeps. Turns out that they needed our business pretty badly because I just found out that the pastor was just accused of lighting fire to the winery to collect insurance.

5/26/2007-Snoqualmie PGA Amber

5/27/2007-Snoqualmie Steam Train Porter

5/28/2007-Snoqualmie Wildcat IPA

5/29/2007-Snoqualmie Copperhead Pale Ale

5/30/2007-Arrogant Bastard Ale - For some reason I felt a kinship to this beer.

5/31/2007-Stone IPA

6/1/2007-Stone Ruination IPA

6/2/2007-Stone Smoked Porter

6/3/2007-Stone Ginger - kind of threw up in my mouth

6/4/2007-Caguama - needed a lime very badly. Kinda like skunky Corona

golfing and drinking

While golfing and drinking mix well together, golfing and trying to find new beers do not. Hence I had a lot of coors the last 3 days golfing. But I did manage a BBQ and some time at home relaxing, so I knocked off some beers from the list.

Siletz Lovin Lager, Dick's Cream Stout, Hornsby's Amber, and Rogue Smoke Ale. All 4 were pretty good, with the Hornsby's being something everyone has probably tried, the Smoke Ale being okay, probably best with some kind of smoked food like salmon (Try this one Trout), and the other 2 being actually pretty good. Most cream ales and stouts I have liked during this thing, and this one was no exception.

I also took third in 2 tournaments, and although the prizes weren't all that great, the golf was good, the weather was awesome, and I am getting steadily better, which will probably lower my handicap making it even harder to win, but oh well. At least there's beer.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Ok, fine

I'm tired and don't feel like writing, but I will anyway to avoid being labeled a "no posting pansy".

For Memorial weekend, I went down to Cabo San Lucas with a couple friends to fish for roosterfish and relax a little bit. Obviously, I had to get my Mexican beers in during the 4 days I was there; Pacifico, Tecate, Sol, and Tecate Light being my choices.

Upon returning home, I finished up the work week with the Spring Heat Spiced Wheat Ale from Anheuser-Busch, Buffalo Bill's Orange Blossom Cream Ale (the only citrus-flavored beer that I have actually enjoyed), and another Mexican brew; Negra Modelo.

I spent this weekend out in the 509 doing some fishing and boozing it up in Spokane (which I found is completely overrun with annoying emo kids). During Elkfest on Saturday night, I asked our waitress what the most random beers they had were and she came up with Karma Ale from Avery Brewing. Not a bad beer, but I was pretty buzzed already, so I can't comment in detail. I do remember drinking it though, which is a far cry ahead of most of the night (thanks to several Jameson shots). The similarity to Dude, Where's My Car this morning in the condo when my buddy and I were trying to piece the sequence of events together was a little disturbing.

As I write this, I'm finishing off today's beer; Czechvar Premium Czech Lager. It tastes like lager. From the Czech Republic. In a green bottle.