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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

And a few more days

Monday and Tuesday pretty low key, with a wonderful Eel Triple Exultation Ale and a Dick's Imperial Stout.

And after typing all this, I am at 359, a few days from 365, and way ahead of schedule. Nice. But I realized I missed at least 3 or 4 beers I really wanted to try at brewfest, which sucks. A few ran out, which pisses me off, and a few I just didn't get to because going from tent to tent and waiting in lines while drunk and trying to read beers off a list did not make for easy deciding. Especially when the notes on my list became impossible to read.

Brewfest, and...Saturday

Saturday was a little slower since I was driving, as well as definitely feeling the effects of Friday, and the list goes a little something like...

21st Amendment Watermelon Wheat, Ballast Point Yellowtail Pale Ale, Elysian Prometheus IPA, Max's Farmer's Daughter, Pelican Heiferweizen, Siletz Anniversary Imperial Porter.

Brewfest part 3

Mad River Steelhead Double IPA, McMenamins Monkey House, Ninkasi Believer, Stone 7/7/7 Vertical Epic Ale, Victory Prima Pils...and those finish up Friday. Seriously, no wonder I didn't drink much Saturday. I also should mention that the Rouge beer crust pizza was very good and the t-shirts that we had that said "Wish You Were Beer"

Brewfest part 2

...Diamond Knot Industrial IPA, Eugene City Honey Orange Wheat (part of Rogue Ales), Fearless Scottish Ale, Fifty Fifty Donner Party Porter, Klamath Basin Crater Lake Golden Ale, Lucky Labrador Triple Threat IPA (a lot of IPAs this weekend)...

Brewfest part 1

Well, I know the labels at the bottom aren't letting these all into one post, so here goes part 1.

Brewfest was awesome, but kind of a blur towards the end of the night. Thank you very much to Abby driving Friday night, since I don't even remember the last few beers, don't remember Nate hitting me in the face with a plastic chair, and barely remember muchos gracias at 10 or so in Vancouver on the way home and repeatadly almost passing out while eating on the way home.

Ahhhh, brewfest.

Amnesia Dry Hopped Dustry Trail Pale Ale, Anderson Valley Summer Solstive Cerveza Crema (this was f'in good), Bayern Pilsner, BJ's C'est Bon Blonde (also good), Boulder Sweaty Betty Blonde (good, with a good name), Raccoon Lodge Razberry Wheat (lots of chicks in this line)...

Thursday, July 26, 2007

brew fest time

This will be my last sober post, as brew fest is the next few days. Tuesday I had a nice Sam Smith's organic lager and it was pretty good. England makes better organic beers than us apparently. I saw a few more sam smith beers at the store the other day and must have had those ones before we started 365 cause they are not checked off my list yet. So back to the store for those hopefully soon cause one is a brown and one is a stout, and they are both really good.

As for brew fest, I hope you can all go. It is going to be fun times.

edit, before brew fest, I decided on some Dicks. Namely the Barley Wine Ale. Almost as good as the full sail old boardhead, and definitely one they should put in the sampler 12 pack. Good shit.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Still playing catch-up...

Okay, so I just re-calculated where we're supposed to be and by my count today should be beer #160. After checking out the list of brewers at Beer-fest this weekend, I am going to have no problem catching up....
I was going to make a list last night to try and catch up, but I'm a lazy mofo so I didn't. Here's a little buit for now.
103. Budweiser Select
104. Peroni
105. New Belgium's 1554
106. New Belgium's Skinny Dip (so good, as soon as it hits your lips)
107. Sheaf Stout
108. Deschutes Twilight Ale
109. Bridgeport Haymaker
110. Henry's Summer Wheat (stay away at all costs!, fucking terrible)
111. Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar
112. Pacifico Clara
113. Busch
114. Coors Light (thank you Rainier's beer gardens)
115. Bud Light (thank you Longview's beer gardens)
116. Tsingtao
117. Pike's Naughty Nellie

that's all I could think of this morning off of the top of my head. I know I've missed about 15 of them but I can make it up this weekend.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

"Bring Some Home For The Wives!"

"Why Have Just One?"

That's the tagline from Wasatch Beers Polygamy Porter, my selection today. You've got to respect a brewery in Utah that makes fun of their heritage, even if their porter is only 4% abv.


I picked up a few gems when I was in San Diego from the 13th to 15th catching sharks (though none as big as last year). Most notable is the Ballast Point lineup, which I'm still working through since I was able to bring a few 22's home with me in my checked baggage. I'm a bit biased since all their brews are named after fish, but they do make some really good beers. Their Yellowtail Pale Ale is a perennial favorite of mine. In addition, I had to try the Red Trolley Ale from Karl Strauss; another San Diego local brew.
Other than that, just a few random micros and imports filling the other slots since my last post. Dicko was nice enough to treat me to a visit to his local specialty beer store last Thursday, where I picked out a beer called Harar from Ethiopia. It was actually pretty tasty, despite the thick layer of sludge in the bottom of the bottle. I spotted a few other beers I hadn't seen elsewhere while we were at the Red House, so I think I'll find myself making a shopping trip to the south end again soon.



7/7/2007 Budweiser Select
7/8/2007 Big Rock Jack Rabbit Light
7/9/2007 Big Rock Traditional Ale
7/10/2007 Peroni
7/11/2007 Georgetown Brewing Rogers
7/12/2007 Squatters Full Suspension Pale Ale
7/13/2007 Ballast Point Yellowtail Pail Ale
7/14/2007 Karl Strauss Brewing Red Trolley Ale
7/15/2007 Ballast Point Calico Amber Ale
7/16/2007 Alaskan Summer Blonde
7/17/2007 Hale's Drawbridge Blonde
7/18/2007 New Belgium 1554
7/19/2007 Harar Beer
7/20/2007 Oskar Blues Brewery Gordon's
7/21/2007 Scuttlebutt Blonde Ale
7/22/2007 Fullers ESB
7/23/2007 Ballast Point Big Eye IPA
7/24/2007 Wasatch Beers Polygamy Porter

Monday, July 23, 2007

working towards 365

Well if Nate thinks we should be at 157, then I am actually still ahead of my 2 a day pace, which is outstanding. I think the Fiddler's Green IPA I had after work and the 22 of Stone Ruination IPA (100 IBUs, which I think is a lot) puts me at about 332. Brewfest and 365, here I come. Also, this bottle is cool enough to share with you.
On the front it says "A Liquid poem to the golory of the hop!"
On the back it says: ru-in-a-tion \ roo' a-na' shen \ n. The act of ruining or the condition of being ruined; a severe state of damage; destruction achieved by wrecking.
Stone Ruination IPA. So called because of the immediate ruinous effect on your palate. The moment after the first swallow, all other food and drink items suddenly become substantially more bland then they were just seconds before. By the time you develop a taste for this beer, you may find that you are premanently ruined from being able to enjoy lesser brews. Good. We freely admit to goind this. On purpose even! People are sometimes crazy enough to thank us for this assault. To which we reply "You're Welcome."
There is a lot more, but I am tired of typing instead of drinking, so I will just add that this beer is fucking good. If you like IPA, buy this beer. Totally worth the hefty $5.50 price tag. Either as good or better than stone's arrogant bastard, and by the sound of things just as arrogant. I want more. Seriously, someone give me some please. Having this makes up for my laziness in not going to get the vertical epic ale the day after my birthday. Cause this is good.

Nate's Back!

Okay, so I know that I have a ton of catching up to do. I've came close to posting a couple of times and then lost the lists of beer that I've drank so I'm trying to re-write and post within the next couple of days.
In the last two months since I've posted, I've missed probably 15 beers (due to not having enough selection, forgetting that I've already had a beer or other various factors). Fear not though, I plan on making these up this upcoming weekend when Brewfest is in Portland. I hope to see you all there.
This past weekend though, I was up in Seattle visiting my friends Chris, Allison & Le-Vy. While I was here I had a couple of different beers. Let me try to get caught up here....
91. Ayinger, BraĆ¼ Weisse; I had this one with my lunch at the Pike Pub & Brewery. it was alright.
92. Georgetown Brewery, Manny's Pale Ale; Okay, so Goat, Trout and Dicko are right. This beer is fucking delicious. I had multiple Manny's at some bar near the Space Needle. My friends Chris & Le-Vy play in a pop-punk band Dateless and they had a show Saturday night.
The next couple of beers I had with Chris on Sunday at Hale's Ales Brewery. They had some really good beers (the cream stouts & the IPAs) and one bad beer (the el Jefe, yuck!)
93. Hale's Ales, Pale American Ale
94. Hale's Ales, Drawbridge Blonde Summer Seasonal
95. Hale's Ales, Mongoose IPA
96. Hale's Ales, Cream Ale
97. Hale's Ales, Cream HSB
98. Hale's Ales, Troll Porter
99. Hale's Ales, Kolsch German Ale
100. Hale's Ales, El Jefe Weizen
101. Hale's Ales, Double IPA Seasonal
102. Hale's Ales, Cream Stout

Tonight I plan on going home and trying to finish my list off. By my calculations I should be at beer #157 so I've got a list of about 30-35 to post in the next day or two....

Sunday, July 22, 2007

great weekend

Saturday Josh, his buddy Brian, my dad, and I won the Hit and Giggle tourney that my credit union and another put on to benefit Dorenbechers. We were 20 under, which for those of you keeping track is 2 eagles and the rest birdies. We were on fire. Plus my boss got a hole in one and I got a few free new belgium skinny dips out of the deal, plus my winnings, plus won a dvd player in the raffle. So I followed it up with an Olympic Drug special, an Ayinger Celebrator Dopplebock. It was f'in good.

Today was a lazy sunday where Abby read her new Harry Potter book, I got some shit done around the house and read a little, went to a BBQ, had a Pete's Rally Cap Ale, and then finished it off with a bunch of other beers and then a Eel River Porter. Not a bad weekend.

Can't wait til brewfest next weekend...

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Olympic Drug

Well I didn't make it to Belmont Station on Wednesday when I was in Beaverton, but today I did make it to Olympic Drug after work, which sports a nice little selection, anywhere from 1.29 a bottle up to 11.39 or so. I mixed and matched a 12 pack, which they allow here, and got 5% off for my troubles. Which is good since a few beers weren't priced and a stone brewing stout and both of the eel river 22s rang up over $4-5 each. So a $30 1/2 rack of beer later I am trying to put it into perspective that it would be more expensive at the bar and I should be happy. Then I remembered I was carrying a 1/2 rack of beers I've never had before, and at least half of them were 22s or bigger, and I was happy again. I got them in the fridge and got myself a nice cold mug for the huge 1pt 11oz Sheaf Stout so I can go rock some fools on Bomberman Live on the 360. I used to play this game everyday on the turbografx16, and fully plan to finally dominate a game online.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

A few more

Elysian Perseus Porter, Pike Street Stout, and Sparks Plus. The porter and stout were the last of my birthday beers from Willie, and the sparks was a pick me up between prefunk for the Rainier days beer garden and the actual Rainier days beer garden. You can see the fireworks from the beer gardens, but the down side is that the end of the night is kind of fuzzy in my memory. And Nate's. And about 250 other people from the look of it. After that kind of night I took the last couple days off, and am now just having a relaxing corona before hitting up some beer stores in Portland tomorrow to finally stock up.

That puts me at 326. Not sure how far ahead of one a day, or behind on two a day I am, but that's a lot of beers.

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Still drinking

A bit behind, but still drinking and tracking the brews. Here is how I finished off June (do have more for July, but I have organized my pile of labels yet.)


6/18/2007 -Bass Ale
6/19/2007-Alaskan Amber
6/20/2007-Russell's Lager
6/21/2007-Whistler Export Lager
6/22/2007-Whistler Pale
6/23/2007-Ole Number 8
6/24/2007-Bridgeport IPA
6/25/2007-Negra Modelo
6/26/2007-Modelo Especial
6/27/2007-Steinlager
6/28/2007-BIG Red Jug Draft
6/29/2007-Mudshark Porter
6/30/2007-Dos Equis Amber

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

more birthday beers


Tuesday was softball and part of a sixer of Natural Ice among other beers in the 90+ degree weather again, then another of Willies presents with a Skagit River Highwater Porter and some papa murphys with him and his new girlfriend Trisha. Today was a Hitachino White Ale, then my new favorite beer, BC Yeti blonde golden Ale. This beer was sooooo good I had to call Willie to tell him we are going to get more this weekend. Seriously, 8%, kind of sweet, golden ale. Fuckin outstanding...I highly recommend picking some up if you have the means.

32 posts away

With 333 posts so far, this one is the 32nd post before we hit 365 posts. And at the posting rate, I'll probably hit 365 beers before we hit 365 posts. As discussed, Willie hooked me up with some Belmont Station specials for my birthday. I had Skagit River Scullers IPA on my birthday, not to much to drink the next day, as expected, and a Hinano (Tahiti beer) on Sunday after some intense wiffleball and the prefestivities for a golf tournament on Monday. Monday after some newcastle browns and new belgium skinny dips, I had a Mike's Hard Lime, which was pretty f'in good while golfing in 90+ degree weather.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

I'm Back...

You're not alone Gus, I've just been out in the woods and unable to post for the past couple weeks. I just finished a 4000 mile road trip through BC, the Yukon Territory, and Alberta and picked up local beers all along the way. Here's the roster since my last update:


6/17/2007 Zhigulevskoe Pale Beer
6/18/2007 Red Hook ESB
6/19/2007 Pyramid Hefeweizen
6/20/2007 Maritime Pacific Islander Pale Ale
6/21/2007 Liemans Breweries de Boomgaard Kriek
6/22/2007 Maritime Pacific Flagship Red
6/23/2007 Uncle Jack's Brown Ale
6/24/2007 Alexander Keith's Light Ale
6/25/2007 Pilsner Urquell
6/26/2007 Full Sail Session Lager
6/27/2007 Yukon Brewing Company Chilkoot Lager
6/28/2007 Yukon Brewing Company Yukon Gold
6/29/2007 Yukon Brewing Company Arctic Red
6/30/2007 Yukon Brewing Company Cranberry Wheat Ale
7/1/2007 Yukon Brewing Company Aurora Borealis Herbal Cream Ale
7/2/2007 Sleeman Honey Brown Lager
7/3/2007 Sleeman Cream Ale
7/4/2007 Sleeman Silver Creek
7/5/2007 Alexander Keith's IPA
7/6/2007 Grozet Gooseberry & Wheat Ale

Friday, July 6, 2007

birthday

Well, it's my birthday. And I have no new beers to drink. In the past 4 days of drinking, the only new beer I've been able to have is Budweiser Select since everything we all bought was coronoa, hefe, bud light, buzzsaw brown, and I have had all those. But Williamson called to say he was Belmont Station today, so there is still a chance I think for something new.

Monday, July 2, 2007

running out quickly

I am out of new beers from that monster fridge full a few months back. After the Rogue Bullfrog Ale and the Rogue Morimoto Black Obi Soba Ale the last couple nights, along with a few Michelob Ultra Ambers at the Elektra, later today after finishing up the yard will be the Rogue Morimoto Soba Ale. That will make 315, with hopes of getting to 365 by the end of brewfest.

I still have beer in the fridge, but they are all repeats, so off to the store I go and hopefully a trip to Portland before tomorrow night so I can fill up some growlers with some new BJ's ales and maybe finally hit belmont station.