basketball and beers

Basketball and Beers go together nicely. Like Golf and Beers. And Baseball and Beers. And Football and beers. And....I sense a pattern. I think I like sports.

The Blazer game was a lot of fun last night. I have season tickets but get so busy that I sell a lot of the tickets. But last night my dad and I watched the Blazers run it up right at the end to win a close game against the Hornets. It's the end of the short season, with injuries on most teams, and tons of trades in the last few weeks, but the game was still fun. I also got to enjoy ragging on Raymond Felton since I threw into my fantasy starting lineup this week because "he has been averaging 16+ ppg and 7+ apg since the interim coach took over. Well he took Tuesday off for family reasons and although he scored a double double last night, I still wasn't happy since I was expecting 32 and 14 so far this week and have 12 and 10 I think. Not to shabby, but indicative of my fall from 7-1 this season to 7-6 with another loss looming this week. Plus I had a Space Stout from Laurelwood and it was great. Adding that to my list and finding a New Belgium beer online that was missing from my list and realizing I forgot to check off the Cocoa Mole, I am now at 686. Good times. Tonight I go for 690. And this weekend or early next week, 700!

But all will be better. I am finally playing fantasy baseball again this year, after a little inspiration from reading Mulgrew's book and his love of the only sport he tried, and his constant self back patting about how good he is at fantasy baseball. I haven't followed much baseball the past few years, but I look forward to getting back into it. I recognize a handful of people off the ESPN cheatsheets, but trying to figure out if they will let me pick McGwire and Canseco on the same team so I can reunite the bash brothers. Maybe Sosa. Maybe Bonds. We'll see how it goes.

And hopefully playing some wiffleball. We were the Phillies last year (something else Mulgrew would appreciate), but with team additions this year are converting to the Lumberjacks since most of the team is from Nate's high school. I think my flex fit L/XL Phillies cap is my favorite hat since they finally made flex fit for big heads. Or was until I got the same size cap from Fort George Brewing.

The endless internet

I could read about beer online for days it seems. Why didn't I start keeping track of beers back when I had the time in college.... Dammit. Anyways, I have a few blogs listed at the left, and want to finally start to use those to increase the breweries and beers on my beer list. As well as find other good blogs and sites to add to my list. I started to make a quick cut and paste list of what 365 Beers wordpress has drank the past 2-3 years on his site, and ended up clicking the first blog on his list of blogs.

And I found a great one at A Beer in Hand blogspot. This guy has a march madness beer bracket, which I am pissed I didn't think of on my own. But we've been brewing and drinking and watching basketball and I can only fulfill so many good ideas at once. Next year though for sure.

I also had a weird experience to share too. Because I get distracted easily. Obviously.

I have only had a few "bad" beers in the past 16 years or so since I started drinking. Sure, there are beers I didn't like or beers that were just okay. Some beers taste "meh" but later as you get older they taste good. There are tons of shitty beers of course, many of those which have their own redeeming qualities like "tastes great on raft trip" or "cheap enough to buy a whole pallet" (yes I have done this), etc. But I bet I have only had 2 or 3 beers that had gone bad, at least that I can remember.

One was a pitcher of Olympia at Pete's Bar and Grill about 12 years ago and the whole keg was vinegar. We promptly got new beers and continued throwing darts. One guy with us has a family farm that grows hops, so most of us wrinkled our noses and kept drinking the first glass until he called bullshit and made them switch the keg out.

One was a Hefeweizen I think at the Rose Garden. I think I drank half and went back and switched it for a Drifter. At $9 a beer I wasn't just going to drink it and keep it to myself. That doesn't happen anymore because Laurelwood has a pub at the Rose Garden and I drink their beers. Sure Widmer is great, but they have the same stuff every week, no new stuff.

And I am sure a few other times I have had beer that should have been fresh and wasn't. I don't count getting an old miller light out of the fridge, or some skunky beer we have had for ever and tried to just to see what its like. But recently I had two bad beers in the course of a week. And only bring it up because both businesses stepped up quickly to rectify, which was awesome.

I had a beer from Rogue that had crazy sediment stuck to the neck of the beer and was horribly bitter. It was from Eugene but bought in Astoria, and an email to them has them scratching their heads and asking for the bottle and promising free goodies. Which is sweet, because I love Rogue and know this was a one time thing, and a possible side effect of loving craft beer.



I also got a Lagunitas beer from Hop N Grape that I was excited to check off my list. (I am at 683 now. Way past 365.) And it turns out it was on my list because it was on the list from 07-08, when that beer was released as a special edition. After pouring half into one pint glass, I dumped the rest into a second for Nate, and out came chunks of yeast. Awesome. Second beer in a week to be ruined. But Dave from Hop N Grape was great, knew that it was kind of a collectors beer but not that it was bad, pulled the last from the shelf, and gave me another Lagunitas beer to replace it. Sweet.

The picture is a little hard to see because I used frosted glasses, but those chunks are free flowing and about a half inch deep by the time they settled. Good times.

more pictures

I had a shot of the new set up, but Nate posted a cooler old school photo already. So here is a shot of him putting the wheels back on, and of the boxes and boxes of extras we got from the Judge waiting to be cleaned and filled with beer. Hmmmmm, beeeeer.

And here is the top secret ale bubbling after we got all done transferring four batches of beer the day before.

With that green coming through from the hops, we could call this beer swamp thing...

Crazy beer weekend.

picture time

104 bottles of beer in the closet, 104 bottles of beeeeer!
and pics of a box of stout, box of presidents, box of emperors. We got about 28-31 bottles from each brew plus still have a few lake sacajaweas and a box of brown or more since we going to play with some ways to get carbonation into those beers.

and below is the all grain class by Fort George at Hop N Grape. I would have taken more pictures but I was thirsty.

The brewer isn't the only one that can pull off a Fort George stocking cap at a Fort George brewing class. You go Nate.

More pictures and comments than you can shake a stick at.

the Lucky Labrador

Lucky Lab

A few weekends ago I made a trip down to Portland with my girlfriend Barbara and her daughter Sophie.  The only place that I really wanted to stop by was the Lucky Labrador Brewhouse in SE Portland.  The Lucky Lab was one of my favorite breweries when I lived in Portland.  I would stop by on my drive home from work at least once a week to enjoy a pint.  Barbara had never tried their beers so we decided to have lunch there and enjoy a couple of tasters.





For lunch I had my old favorite, the pulled pork sandwich and Barbara tried their chicken curry bento.  Between the two of us we sampled every beer that they had on their regular taps.  We didn't get to sample any of their cask or nitro ales but there is always next time.  And their food and beers were just as good as I remembered.  If you're ever in Portland and in need of a tasty pint and some good grub you should definitely check out the Lucky Lab.

L-Town Brewing is Going Big

Above you'll see a picture of the lovely all-grain brewing rig that Gus purchased from a local, retired judge who has decided to quit homebrewing.  The rig came with a converted keggle that will serve as our hot liquor tank, another converted keggle that will be our brew kettle, a igloo cooler that has been converted to a mash-tun and extra 15.5 gallon keg that we will either convert to a mash-tun or use as trade-bait.  The stand has a pump included to move the liquid and a set of high-pressure and low-pressure propane burners with the tank.

The judge also threw in three cornelius kegs, four more cornies that were converted into fermenting tanks and three more carboys.  Gus and I have enough fermenters between the two of us to have approximately eighty (80!) gallons fermenting at once.  I don't see us ever having that much beer going at once so we may try to convert the fermenting cornies back to their usable state or we could always use them for trade.  Gus also scored a huge bottle-drying tree, a ton of flip-top bottles and four huge hop-drying racks for when we start growing hops.  We also scored a few pounds of hops that we'll be brewing up soon in a special IPA.  We're going to share some of these IPAs with the judge and actually name them in his honor.  The Judge GYO IPA should be a fun beer to experiment with.

As for our first batch we're planning on the new rig?  We're finally going to brew Abby's Hefeweizen for the first time so we can tweak the recipe and get it fine-tuned for Abby.  I can't wait to break it in!

Top Secret Ale

Not the Real Cap

Gus and I decided that we wanted to try something a little different for our next beer and do a little experimentation.  We have a final name decided for this beer but we're going to wait until it is bottled before we reveal the name and style of beer.  We've also got some caps for the bottles and the cap doesn't look anything like the one you see to the right, that one is just a placeholder for the time being.

We're also planning on brewing one of our last extract batches before we move up to the all grain brewing rig.  Our Apocalypso will be one of the last batches we do with extract.  It should be brewed sometime in April so it'll be ready right in time for the start of Summer.  The apricot, nectarine, scotch bonnet pepper mix will hopefully not be too overpowering and provide a nice, clean easy drinking session beer for the warm months ahead.

Beer by Michael Jackson

We have tons of pictures and had tons of fun this weekend. But both of us are hella busy so it will come in pieces this week. A few pics are on facebook if you partake in that social medium.

We bottled. A lot.
We brewed.
We attended an all grain class.
We drank.
We got free hats.

Good times.

I also bought a book called Beer, by Michael Jackson. No, not that one, he gets that all the time. The one that is the world class writer about beer. I am looking forward to adding some beers and breweries to my list and then finding them and trying them.

I passed beer number 680 thanks to drinking and brewing Sunday.

And of course we picked up our own all grain set up, and we have pictures of that to add later this week too. And I got my own copy of The Complete Joy of Homebrewing, 3rd edition. So I will eventually know almost as much as Nate. Hopefully.

Weekend of Beer

Sorry to both of our readers for my lack of posts this week.  I started a post about my visit to Lucky Lab last weekend but couldn't seem to get any pictures to show up so I scratched it.  Oh well, maybe next week I'll get it posted.

So this weekend should be an extremely busy one for Gus and I.  Tonight we're planning on kegging the Stormtrooper Imperial IPA and bottling the St. Helens Stout, Erik for President APA, Erik for Emperor APA and possibly even the Apfelwein if we don't run out of time.  I'm pumped for three weeks from now when we'll be able to sample four new LTB beers.  I should have the Stormtrooper force-carbed and ready to drink by Tuesday, it's going to be hop-tastic!

Saturday Fort George Brewing from Astoria will have some of their crew at Hop & Grape doing an All-Grain brewing demonstration.  Since we've been extract only at this point we figured it would be a great learning experience.  I can see Gus and I going All-Grain within the next couple of weeks (hello 10 gallon batches!).  Fort George will also be bringing some tasty beverages for us to try.  I'm looking forward to finally tasting their bourbon barrel aged Cavatica stout.  I tried to grab a pint a few weeks ago at H&G but the keg kicked on the pint before mine.

Sunday we're planning on brewing at least one batch (the ever elusive Top Secret Ale) and possibly brewing up the Apocalypso.  Before we start brewing we will be picking up the new L-Town Brewing All-Grain rig and moving it to the LTB Brewhaus.  I'm hoping we'll have some pictures to post early next week of the setup and all of the extra goodies we're acquiring. 

All in all it should be a great weekend filled with beers, beers and more beers.  Have a great weekend you guys (both of you!).

not the only one MIA

I see Nate also did not post Thu/Fri. Shame on him. But we have big plans to bottle, brew, keg, and drink multiple beers. Good times. I did not get on the computer this weekend, just the iPad, and as mentioned on a different post, the ipad and blogger do not work together.

But I did hit 674 beers on my list on Sunday. I am going to find some other records to break besides just the MLB home run record. NCAA career points are off the charts, but maybe threes. Or NBA blocks or steals or something. MLB games pitched, or steals or something. I am out to break some more records...

I found one, 678 three pointers attempted in a season by George McCloud, 1995-96 (257/678) (37.9%). He was on the Mavericks that year and made the 3 point competition at the all star game. 5 beers and I will have passed him and be #1. BOOYAH!

I also will pass Christian Laettner on the career Blocks list with my next beer. The blocks list might be a good way to move my way up a list as he is at #149. But probably no way to get to the top as the top 30 guys or so are over 1,500 career blocks. I could try steals, but to even get to the top 250 I have to get to 775 to catch Lamar Odem and that list is also in the 1,500-3,000 range when you get to the top. I don't even know if there are that many beers readily accessible. NBA records list But I will find some more on the list somewhere.

As for the home run record, I am currently sitting 4th and have already passed Griffey, Mays, and A-Rod. And Sosa and the bash brothers. Babe Ruth here I come.

1	Barry Bonds	762
2	Hank Aaron	755
3	Babe Ruth	714
4	Willie Mays	660
5	Ken Griffey, Jr.	630
6	Alex Rodriguez	629
7	Sammy Sosa	609
8	Jim Thome	604
9	Frank Robinson	586
10	Mark McGwire	583

MIA due to NCAA

I may be MIA a few days due to being off to watch the NCAA games. Or I may be back Friday since I will be home watching the games and trying more beers. Who knows.

I had some tasty beers last night at Hop N Grape, including the 11% Choklat Imperial Stout by Southern Tier. Their beers are spendy, but they are worth it. I may have to grab some more 22s once my fridge thins out a little. I have a bottle of the Pumpking in there and I really hope it is good because there are only a few good pumpkin beers out there and I love the good ones. I also had a Georgetown brew, the Lucille, which was super hoppy. And a small glass of the Stone Old Guardian Barleywine because it was so strong they only serve tasters. But that is nice because it saves me buying a pretty expensive 22. And a taste of the Oakshire Overcast Espresso Stout. I will taste that one again to make enough ounces to qualify to check it off the list. I know Garrett has had a few of their beers since we used the empty 22s to bottle with, and says they are great. Including the Ill Tempered Gnome which I want to try.

And I also had a taste of Dan's favorite beer from Laughing Dog, the Alpha Dog. One of the best IPAs I have had, very smooth, and I plan to go buy a few 22s of this stuff. It look like they make a lot of IPAs from their website and I have two others in my fridge still to try, so I've got that going for me, which is nice. That puts me at 665 beers according to my list, so I am doing okay in my quest for Barry Bonds record. Chris suggested last night I go for a thousand, which will be a nice goal to shoot for next after Barry Bond's record. Although I will have to be scouring beer stores once I get to that 900 beer range I think. Or drinking crap beer. Save that for softball/wiffleball season...

Deschutes Chainbreaker White IPA

A little backstory for everybody, I don't like Belgian style beers.  I have never acquired a taste for them and recently I realized why that was, it's the yeast.  To me a beer made with a Belgian yeast has a slightly-sweet, estery flavor about it that is just a little off.  New Belgium's Grand Cru and Elysian's Rapture are the only two examples I can think of that I actually enjoyed.

So last night I'm at one of the local watering holes enjoying their Taco Tuesday.  After consuming a Fort George Vortex IPA I asked the waitress what else they had on tap.  She named a couple of beers and mentioned Deschutes new Chainbreaker IPA.  Since Deschutes is pretty much my favorite brewery around I thought I'd check it out.  You can imagine my surprise when she serves me what looked like a Blue Moon complete with an orange slice.  Wait, what?

I drank the first half of my pint with no orange added to the mix.  It was one of the most enjoyable Belgians I have tried.  Which isn't saying too much.  I added the orange to mix halfway through my pint and I think it made the beer worse.  Don't fruit the beer!  (With the only exceptions to the rule being Corona's w/lime & Hefeweizen's w/lemon)  I think for Chainbreaker to really live up to the IPA status it needs more hops.  Some Cascade or Citra hops at the beginning of the boil would do wonders for this beer and not overpower the taste of the belgian yeast.

If you're a fan of both Belgians and IPAs I suggest you give the Chainbreaker a try.  As for me, I'll be sticking with the Red Chairs, Mirror Ponds and Inversions. 

Erik's Plan for World Domination

He's going to win the people over with tasty brews. Introducing L-Town Brewing's two newest beers.  Both are sure to be easy drinking beverages that will make people happy. 

Erik for President is a classic style American Pale Ale that was brewed with Cascade hops.  It should have a nice, clean crisp finish that will leave you thirsty for more.  I'm thinking this beer is going to be perfect for an afternoon wiffleball game or as a session beer on a nice sunny afternoon.



Erik for Emperor is a slightly different version of the President brewed using the exact same grain-bill but we replaced the Cascade hops for some Sorachi Ace hops from Japan.  This is the first time we've experimented with the Sorachi Ace hops and it'll be interesting to see how the two contrast in taste.

The best thing about this pair of beers is they will be bottled early next week and we should be enjoying them by Easter.  And remember, Vote for Erik!





25 Gallons of Beer in the closet...

...25 gallons of beer, you take one down, sterilize your containers, transfer, wait some more time, and brew another batch, still 25 gallons of beer in the closet.

If my closet were alive it would be tipsy.

That is a IIPA, Apfelwine, Stout, and two Ales, all aging and bubbling nicely.

Also, here is a pic of the great cornholio brewing the Erik for President last week.

I didn't get a pic of myself brewing the Erik for Emperor this weekend, but did get a picture of the beer itself. This will truly be a beer for the people.

And a pic of the stout transfer this weekend. There are vanilla beans in there. Should be outstanding.

And I did get a pic of me having a beer before lunch, which is fun.

HA HA

I know we mainly talk about beer, but other things happen in life. Like Basketball. Like us getting shit from husky friends because the cougs as an 8 seed lost to the beavs as a 9 seed. It was by a few points at the end of a tight game. Bummer, but we were barely good this year so it wasn't a let down. So the cougs didn't get to play the Huskies today. The Beavers did. AND THE 9 SEED BEAVERS BEAT THE 1 SEED, PAC-12, FULL OF THEMSELVES, HUSKIES!

Suck it Huskies.

But speaking of beers, I finally got into Your Home Brew last night, and took a picture of the barrels of goodness they have there.

This is the extract that makes the beer that makes us happy.

Save The Brown

We were disappointed that the first bottle of brown didn't seem to have enough carbonation. The second bottle seemed to have a little more, and so on. Since they were all from the same batch, it makes no sense why they have different levels.

But I found a work around (or maybe time is on our side, who knows). If you dump the beer into the glass instead of pour it slowly into tasters, it has a nice head on it. And tastes terrific.

I am so excited since I have a half rack of these still plus Nate has a bunch too.


Also just found that Your Home Brew is getting a website up and running. Nice.

Dry Hopping the Stormtrooper

Here's a polaroid from last night's transferring of the Stormtrooper Imperial IPA into the secondary with the hops already waiting for them.  Gus was so excited about the dry hopping that he didn't even put his chili bowl down.  I can't wait to keg this beer up next week and get it on tap next to the NWPA.  It's going to be a hit amongst my hophead friends.  Mmmmm, hops...

Do You Voodoo?



 Last night I was fortunate enough to try Rogue's new limited edition beer that honors Portland's own Voodoo Doughnuts.  This beer was made to replicate Voodoo's ground breaking maple bacon bar, which is just like it sounds a maple bar with bacon on top of it.  I used to frequent Voodoo Doughnuts when I lived in Portland and nine times out of ten I ended up going with the maple bacon bar so I was pumped to see Rogue honor it with a beer.

I had heard mixed reviews from some friends that had already tried the beer so I was a little skeptical on how much I would actually enjoy it.  The smokiness of the beer jumped out on my very first taste and left behind a hint of maple sweetness.  The maple and smoke flavors were not overpowering though and actually went together very well.  I enjoyed this beer very much and would like to try it again in the future.  If you're a fan of smoke flavored beers you owe it to yourself to try this one before it's gone.

L-Town Brewing's Inaugural Tasting Party

(L-R) Beach Dog Brown, Sacajawea Pale Ale, CCWA NWPA

Saturday afternoon Gus and I had a couple of close friends come over to taste our first three beers.  We also had a nice assortment of sausages and cheeses plus a few bags of potato chips.  But the beers were the star of the show.  Gus's good buddy Shaun came by as did my girlfriend Barbara and our friends Matt, Brittany, Erik and Margaux.  Here's a little recap of what everybody thought of the brews.

Beach Dog Brown - Unfortunately we left our Brown Ale in the fermenters for too long and that cause a majority of our yeast to fall out of suspension.  When we went to bottle there wasn't enough yeast to consume the sugar and we ended up with a somewhat flat, overly sweet brown ale.  Don't get me wrong because I still drank quite a bit of it, but it could've been so much better fully carbonated.  I believe Gus will be attempting this brew again very soon.

Sacajawea Pale Ale - Now this is what I'm talking about!  The Sacajawea turned out just about perfectly.  We took our inspiration from Deschutes Mirror Pond and made it a little funkier as a homage to our local lake.  Margaux and Brittany both said that this was there favorite of the LTB brews.  I'm not sure if I liked it more then the CCWA NWPA or not but it was pretty damn tasty.

CCWA NWPA - Our Northwest Pale Ale was the first beer we kegged and it turned out marvelous!  This beer was definitely the hit of the tasting and I noticed Shaun, Matt & Erik all make multiple trips over to the keg for refills.  For this only being the third beer that we brewed I was extremely impressed with how it turned out.  I've already had a couple requests on brewing another batch of this so we don't run out.  What a damn tasty beer and a great way to honor our local wiffleball league, the CCWA.

We also had a few other beers that people had brought up to sample and a majority of those I had already tasted.  Brittany surprised us with two beers from Trade Route Brewing, their Ginger Ale and a Mango-Weizen.  Some people, myself included, really enjoyed the Ginger Ale but I don't think many of us really cared for the Mango-Weizen.  It was definitely interesting to try.

the morning after the LTB tasting party

   

Kegging and Brewing

Kegtastic!

To the right you'll see a picture of the very first L-Town Brewing keg being filled up with some delicious CCWA NWPA.  We filled the keg up two weeks ago (the same night we brewed the St. Helens Stout).  The full keg went from the LTB Brewhaus over to the LTB Dogghaus and into the kegerator where it chilled for the evening.  The next day we put CO2 to the keg and force carbed it at 30 psi for 48 hours.  After the force carbing was complete we bled the excess air out of the tank and set the regulator to 10 psi.  After sitting at 10 psi for five or six hours the first LTB beer was poured and consumed.  And it was amazing.  Not quite an exact clone of Red Chair NWPA but just as good.  I was seriously impressed with how well it turned out.  And just to be sure that the first pint wasn't a fluke I decided to try two more. 

And below you'll see another picture of the St. Helens Stout brewing away.  This stuff looked like motor oil in the brew kettle.  We've got a couple of vanilla beans from Madagascar that we'll be throwing in the secondary fermenter.  I'm really looking forward to this being done and ready to drink.  It should be nothing short of mind-blowing.

Black Gold

657 beers and counting

In addition to brewing, we are doing a lot of tasting. I have my old beer list from 07-08 pretty much fully updated and synced between numerous computers and devices now. Which makes for interesting reading as the Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Ale last night was beer #657 or so. Very Smoky but smelled like maple bars. Kinda cool, and although expensive to buy, I may have another down the road if the price is right.

P.S. Barry Bonds, I'm coming for your record.

And in addition to the beers we pay to taste, we of course had the tasting party Saturday of our first three beers. So here are some pics of that. I call them Nate's First Taste, Nate's Second Taste, and Many Tastes Later...

And we transferred the Stormtrooper IIPA finally last night after three plus weeks in the primary (it was barely up to a minute between perks, crazy) and here is a pic of master brewer Nate starting the transfer. I believe he may have a pic of me completing the transfer, or just post clean up, so hopefully he will add that. And of course more pics of the tasting. Maybe even one that includes me!

Arrogant Bastards

Sorry to both of our readers about the serious lack of posts lately.  I plan on making up for that with a multiple post day covering the last week or so of beer drinking, beer kegging, beer brewing, beer tasting and everything else beer that we can possibly talk about.  Let's get the mofo started!

Last week Gus and I did a tasting with the three versions of Stone's Arrogant Bastard that were readily available.  We sampled the regular Bastard, which we had both had in the past, the Double Bastard and the Oaked Arrogant Bastard. 

If you're not familiar with Arrogant Bastard it is an American style strong ale.  And it is delicious!  Quite a few years ago one of Longview's finer drinking establishments (Porky's) decided to add Arrogant Bastard to their taps.  This is where I first became familiar with the Bastard.  I immensely enjoyed my first pint and have had them on numerous occasions since then.  When I think about Strong Ales and what they should be like Arrogant Bastard is one of the examples I think of. 

I hadn't tried the Oaked Bastard until that night and I honestly wasn't too impressed by it.  I felt that it was way too similar to the regular Bastard and I could hardly notice any Oak notes or flavors.  It really felt like I was just drinking more of the same Arrogant Bastard.  I've recently found myself enjoying the oaked beers more and more and this one was just a disappointment to me.

I also hadn't had the Double Bastard before and I enjoyed it immensely.  It was just what I expected it to be, a stronger version of Arrogant Bastard.  I was surprised that it wasn't too overpowering at roughly 10% ABV and it had a pretty smooth flavor for being so strong.  I will definitely be ordering another one of these in the near future.

One downside to the multiple Bastards was the sluggishness that I felt the next morning.  If you plan on doing a multiple Bastard tasting I would suggest doing it on a Friday night and drinking multiple waters before you go to sleep.

Stouts bubbling baby, go ahead baby

The stout is brewed and bubbling nicely.

And the stormtrooper is still bubbling. Crazy. Apparently we should have used double yeast or something. Interesting to see whether the Stout bubbles for multiple weeks in the primary too.

And here's a couple fun pictures from last weekend. Tasters at the Wet Dog in Astoria, which makes a mean Old Red Beard Amber.

I also added a picture of my son and I at Rogue Public House in Astoria to the left down at the bottom.

And I also have a picture of the Stout brewing away. It seriously smelled and looked like coffee before we added the hops. Crazy Dark.

And lastly my happy fridge after another successful trip to Hop N Grape. There are some beauties in there, including the line up of super expensive oversized and undersized beers from Rogue. I can't wait...