Addicted to thinking about Beer again

But, William, you could get drunk. - You could get addicted. - Can't Hardly Wait

I am hopelessly addicted to thinking about beer again. Blog, stopping by the store, emailing Nate non-stop. Not sure if that is a bad thing, but I think I would scare these guys...

Also found a sweet blog its-pub-night when wondering about Growler prices. The link talks about growler prices in Portland, but is good for a general idea. It's not cheaper to buy a growler, or for that matter 22s, but you can get beer sometimes not available in bottles.

WSU: A Great Place to Drink Beer

Hit up Hop N Grape last night. They have the tap room restaurant open as of Tuesday and I saw a number of people I know coming and going while I was buying a case of 22s. Pretty exciting.

The brown is aging nicely and the pale is bubbling. We designed bottle caps for the first two beers as well as the next couple planned beers. Hopefully they are still saved on the computer since my 2 year old found the button to the power strip. Right before he punched Nate in the nuts. Needless to say back to back timeouts were fun for him.

And if you are looking for a super fancy place to drink your beer next fall, check out the new luxury seating going in at Martin Stadium. thecougarfootballproject.org

Ninkasi Brewing

Gus's current favorite Sleighr is by Ninkasi. (going to the specialty store and Safeway tonight to see if anyone still has some). Ninkasi makes excellent beers, but I'm sure you already knew that if you are reading this.

The ancient Sumerians worshiped the beer they made, and praised the Goddess Ninkasi for the miracle of fermentation. Beer is a staple of civilization. Worship the Goddess. ~ Ninkasi

(I find it kind of funny that I cut and pasted that saying from their website and spellcheck corrected worshiped. I wonder if they have it spelled wrong on their beers too? I will have to check it out.)

This double dark alt is a thing of beauty. I would brew it next if anyone could find a recipe. It might be as good as Gunnar's Bad Santa. In fact, I wonder if he still has any on tap? He has been brewing for a year or so and lives a few houses down. Which is very handy since he has three soda kegs of beer in his garage and I know the garage code...

And Nate found another site.
Beer Labelizer

And has our first two beer labels.
(work in process)

Now we just need to figure out the bottle cap designer for our LTB bottle caps.

HOLY CRAP

Wow, I actually remembered my login and password. That's crazy talk.

I am back. We are now brewing beer. So what better reason to try and catch up our lists and see where we stand, and start blogging about beer again? Well one reason would be all the new beers out since 2008.

The only downside will be trying to figure out what I missed listing since 2008. But maybe between batches Nate and I can figure it out. And once we start adding the beers we have tasted from other home brewers we should start growing our totals exponentially....

My Own Labels.com
Custom Bottle Caps at bottlemark.com

We are coming up with all kinds of fun names for our brewery, fun names for our beers, etc. and really hope to have something to try by Nates birthday in February.

Fear No Bear Blog: Hop N Grape

Above is an article about a local beer store (the guy who previously had the beer section at Olympic Drug). And of course the fearnobeer blog is pretty cool so hit home and check it out after you read that article.

Hop N Grape on Facebook

and of course Your Home Brew on Facebook where we get our supplies as does my cousin Gunnar and a lot of brewers in Longview/Kelso.

Done!

Anyone else finish on schedule?

I capped off the 365 with a Scottish beer called Traquair Jacobite Ale, brewed in tribute to the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.

What follows is my final update.


12/18/2007 Anheuser-Busch Bud Light
12/19/2007 Anchor Brewing Company Our Special Ale
12/20/2007 New Belgium Mothership Wit
12/21/2007 Sam Adams Old Fezziwig Ale
12/22/2007 Sam Adams Black Lager
12/23/2007 Rogue Yellow Snow
12/24/2007 Gordon Biersch Marzen
12/25/2007 Birdsview Pale Ale
12/26/2007 Diamond Knot Brewery Industrial XIPA
12/27/2007 Bridgeport Ebenezer Ale
12/28/2007 Nimbus Brewing Company Red Ale
12/29/2007 Trader Joe's (Unibroue) 2007 Vintage Ale
12/30/2007 Nimbus Brewing Company Dirty Guera Blonde Ale
12/31/2007 de Boomgaard Framboise
1/1/2008 Butte Creek Organic Pale Ale
1/2/2008 Stix Golden Boy Ale
1/3/2008 Nimbus Brewing Company Pale Ale
1/4/2008 Yukon Brewing Company Midnight Sun Espresso Stout
1/5/2008 Nimbus Brewing Company Old Monkeyshine English Style Ale
1/6/2008 Brown Brothers American Wheat
1/7/2008 Lagunitas IPA
1/8/2008 Pacific Rim Brewery Rat City IPA
1/9/2008 Elliott Bay Brewery Alembic Pale Ale
1/10/2008 Diamond Knot Brewery Ho! Ho!
1/11/2008 Rinkuskiai Zaibo Extra Stout
1/12/2008 Coors
1/13/2008 Ursus
1/14/2008 Wymehcko Shumensko
1/15/2008 Harar Hakim Stout
1/16/2008 Amstel Light
1/17/2008 Baron Schwarzbier
1/18/2008 Baltika Cooler Lager
1/19/2008 Azuga Regala
1/20/2008 Leavenworth Brewing Blind Pig Dunkelweizen
1/21/2008 Anheuser-Busch Budweiser
1/22/2008 Sapporo
1/23/2008 Harp Lager
1/24/2008 Fischer Amber Tradition
1/25/2008 Bridgeport Beer Town Brown
1/26/2008 Zatec Bright Lager Beer
1/27/2008 Speakeasy Double Daddy Imperial IPA
1/28/2008 Deschutes Brewery Green Lakes Organic Ale
1/29/2008 Sam Adams White Ale
1/30/2008 Eisenbahn South American Pale Ale
1/31/2008 Tooheys New
2/1/2008 Ochakovo Ruby
2/2/2008 Stix De Santis Strong Ale
2/3/2008 He'Brew Jewbelation
2/4/2008 Deschutes Brewery The Abyss Stout
2/5/2008 New Belgium Blue Paddle Pilsener
2/6/2008 Heineken
2/7/2008 Rebel
2/8/2008 Maritime Pacific Imperial IPA
2/9/2008 Slavutich Mitsne
2/10/2008 Bayerischer Bahnhof Berliner Style Weisse
2/11/2008 Yuksom Himalayan Blue
2/12/2008 Coopers Original Pale Ale
2/13/2008 Oriental Brewery OB
2/14/2008 Lazy Boy Brewing Porter
2/15/2008 Traquair Jacobite Ale

Out.

New Season, New Post

Seems fitting that I end this update with a Blue Moon seasonal brew, just like my last post back on September 24th. Lots of things have happened in the past couple months, most of which involve beer, but I'm too lazy to write about them, so here's a list.

9/25/2007 Sam Adams Octoberfest
9/26/2007 Deschutes Brewery Obsidian Stout
9/27/2007 Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA
9/28/2007 Pyramid Broken Rake Amber
9/29/2007 Buffalo Bill's Brewery Pumpkin Ale
9/30/2007 Okocim Palone
10/1/2007 Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company Harvest Moon Festbier
10/2/2007 Kona Brewing Company Pipeline Porter
10/3/2007 Browar Witnica Black Boss Porter
10/4/2007 Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre
10/5/2007 Oskar Blues Brewery Old Chub Scottish Style Ale
10/6/2007 Elysian Brewing Company Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
10/7/2007 Victory Storm King Imperial Stout
10/8/2007 Boulder Beer Company Cold Hop English Style Ale
10/9/2007 Mac & Jack's African Amber
10/10/2007 Boulder Beer Company Mojo IPA
10/11/2007 Diamond Knot Brewery Possession Porter
10/12/2007 Lucifer Golden Ale
10/13/2007 Alpine Oktoberfest
10/14/2007 North Coast Brewing Scrimshaw Pilsner
10/15/2007 Full Sail Vesuvius
10/16/2007 Full Sail Wassail Winter Ale
10/17/2007 Full Sail Son of Spot IPA
10/18/2007 Pyramid Snow Cap
10/19/2007 Lost Coast Double Trouble IPA
10/20/2007 Hale's O'Brien's Harvest Ale
10/21/2007 Shanhaiguan Bull Brewery Bull Brew
10/22/2007 Fish Tale Mudshark Porter
10/23/2007 Ballast Point Black Marlin Porter
10/24/2007 Anheuser-Busch Rolling Rock
10/25/2007 Eisenbahn Dourada Brazilian Golden Ale
10/26/2007 G. Menabrea e Figli Birra del 150 Anniversario Amber Beer
10/27/2007 Sierra Nevada Harvest Fresh Hop Ale
10/28/2007 Lagunitas Kill Ugly Radio
10/29/2007 Cosmos Brewery Chang
10/30/2007 Trumer Pils
10/31/2007 Miller High Life
11/1/2007 Victory Hop Wallop
11/2/2007 Morland Old Speckled Hen
11/3/2007 Big E Scotch Ale
11/4/2007 Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale
11/5/2007 Schlitz Old Milwaukee
11/6/2007 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
11/7/2007 Lagunitas Pils
11/8/2007 Sam Adams Winter Lager
11/9/2007 Deschutes Brewery Black Butte Porter
11/10/2007 Deschutes Brewery Twilight Seasonal Ale
11/11/2007 Menabrea Birra
11/12/2007 Marathon Lager
11/13/2007 Dick's Brewing Company Double Diamond Winter Ale
11/14/2007 Pacific Rim Brewery Pumpkin Patch Ale
11/15/2007 Rinkuskiai Uosto Extra
11/16/2007 Hamm's
11/17/2007 Dick's Brewing Company Cream Stout
11/18/2007 Deschutes Brewery Anniversary Golden Ale
11/19/2007 Rinkuskiai Baro Tradicinis
11/20/2007 Sierra Nevada Celebration
11/21/2007 Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company Steam Train Porter
11/22/2007 Deschutes Brewery Jubelale
11/23/2007 Dick's Brewing Company Lava Rock Porter
11/24/2007 Maritime Pacific Portage Bay Pilsener
11/25/2007 Rinkuskiai Birzieciu
11/26/2007 Deschutes Brewery Nitro Jubelale
11/27/2007 Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company Avalanche Winter Ale
11/28/2007 Olympia
11/29/2007 Bavik Wittekerke Rosé
11/30/2007 Scaldis Noel
12/1/2007 Dos Equis Amber Ale
12/2/2007 Carta Blanca
12/3/2007 Modelo Estrella
12/4/2007 Dos Equis Lager Especial
12/5/2007 Rogue Dead Guy
12/6/2007 Shiner Bock
12/7/2007 Red Hook Winter Hook
12/8/2007 Henry Weinhard's Blue Boar Ale
12/9/2007 Red Stripe
12/10/2007 New Belgium 2 Below Ale
12/11/2007 Maritime Pacific Jolly Roger Christmas Ale
12/12/2007 Henry Weinhard's Blonde Lager
12/13/2007 Elysian Brewing Company Bifrost Winter Ale
12/14/2007 Deschutes Brewery Mirror Pond Ale
12/15/2007 Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company Wild Cat IPA
12/16/2007 Pacific Rim Brewery Vashon Old Stock Ale
12/17/2007 Blue Moon Full Moon Winter Ale

Only 60 more to go!

updated to 477

So my list is updated, and I am officially not going for 2 a day. I am at 477, but by my count 2 a day would be 546, so unless I make a weekly trip to specialty beer stores in Portland and/or Seattle, there is no way I can catch up. But I think I can take down Bonds HR record if I keep going through next year's baseball season, so we will see. I also have 2 growlers of BJs Pumpkin Ale and Pizookie Blackout Chocolate Stout in the fridge, so should be able to hit 480 by tomorrow if I can find one more new beer tonight at the store.

Coolest bottle I have found so far was a Harbin Lager from China last week. The bottle was all green with green and red foil, covered with a very thin white bag and chinese lettering that you could barely see through like chinese paper. Pretty cool, and pretty f'in tasty to boot.

It's been so long

So as I predicted, Halo 3 came out and my available time went down a bunch. Combine that with Volleyball season starting early because I assisted with the college team in town, a loan promotion at work that brought in tons of work and kept me way to busy, and my computer hard drive taking a dive, and I haven't been on the blog in over a month. So I am now like everyone else keeping track on paper. I would love to get the list on here, and put each beer in to labels like before, but I am just not sure that is going to happen. The good news is that I am trying to catch back up to the 2 a day pace, and making some headway. I'm well over 430 and probably close to 450 by now. Cheers.

Who's this?

Can you believe it folks? I am posting....because I am on an extremley boring conference call right now and rather tha throw myself threw the conference room windows in a hopes to impale myself on a shard of glass, I decided to post.

I still have a list of all the beers i've been drinking, but i dont have it with me to post. I have been drinking though and find myself about 3 weeks behind. Sure that beers are harder to find now, but that is no excuse. I need to get off my ass and search. I've come to that point now where that one random beer that each restaurant has is not new anymore. I think you all know what Im saying.... remember 4 months ago you could always rely on one random beer at a new restaurant you tried...Whether is was Lagunitas IPA or Maritime Ale... it was there, alas, not anymore.

Here's to us, the remaining drinkers, tilt one up tonight, I will.

Pumpkin Beers Are Gross

Normally, I would not even consider drinking pumpkin beer. I've had a few here and there over the years and have yet to be impressed by one. However, 365 Beers forces us to try things we might not like, but can't pass up for ease of counting another unique beer. At Central Market in Seattle today, I counted 3 different pumpkin beers. One I had already tried last night (Thanks Marco!), so I picked up the other two and choked one of them down tonight. They all suck. There's no way around it; Pumpkin beer is simply gross. At least I only have one more to go...

On a more positive note, last Thursday was a special day for beer lovers. Georgetown Brewing (makers of Manny's, Roger's, and Chopper's, as well as the special May release of Bob's) released a new beer - Nine Pound Porter - at the namesake bar, the Nine Pound Hammer. The Nine Pound Hammer bar is located across the street from the brewery and is an after work favorite haunt of mine (text "9#?" to Dicko and he'll know where to go). They don't serve food other than peanuts, and bartender Megan always knows what I want when I walk in the door. Despite the short 2 day notice, the release party was an exceptional event, complete with several choppers parked out front on the sidewalk, a falafel truck, and most importantly, $2 pints of the new Georgetown brew. Manny and Roger were even on hand, which given their celebrity status is quite a feat.

9/11/2007 Diamond Knot Brewery Brown Ale
9/12/2007 Corona
9/13/2007 Victory Prima Pils
9/14/2007 Georgetown Brewing Chopper's Red Ale
9/15/2007 Anheuser-Busch Beach Bum Blonde Ale
9/16/2007 Ommegang Witte
9/17/2007 Piraat Ale
9/18/2007 Petrus Speciale Ale
9/19/2007 Baron Oktoberfest
9/20/2007 Georgetown Brewing Nine Pound Porter
9/21/2007 Theakston Old Peculiar
9/22/2007 Bear Republic Pale Ale
9/23/2007 Dogfish Head Punkin Ale
9/24/2007 Blue Moon Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ale

post 366

Well, we've had 365 posts, and I've had 395 Beers in 220 days. So I have dropped off the 2 a day pace, but I am back on the train now and trying to gain some yardage back. And since I am going after Bond's record and his future is up in the air, I have some time to do some catching up.

A Lagunitas Imperial Red after a few dead guys and a LLC volleyball game Friday.
Singha Light and Tsing Tao Pure Draft last night with some thai food.
A becks while golfing which I've already had, but a Schneider Aventinus afterwords and a Heineken Dark today before the Hawks game. Next I will take a Stone Smoked Porter (#395)with me to my Dad's to watch the hawks game and some other free beer that is already checked off, do some grocery shopping, and watch Family Guy: Blue Harvest (the Star Wars episode) tonight.

Then tomorrow work and try not to think about Halo 3 too much, then Tuesday some Halo 3. All day.

Great Success

I was in Portland and finally filled my 3 growlers with beer at BJ's in Janzen Beach. And that prompted me to hit up Olympic Drug and clean them out, getting one of every beer they had that I haven't had (excluding the gross $8-12 beers they had) So my fridge is full and I am drinking again, or at least drinking new beers again since it had been a few weeks since I could find a new one in my fridge.

A few Australian brews, Coopers Sparkling Ale, Coopers Premium Lager, and Tooheys New, and a german favorite listed on Anhaueser Busch's site Grolsch.

Also this was post 365. And the crowd goes wild. Yippee.

drinking for charity

I know this is a beer blog, but for those of you that know me, you know I like giving time and money to various organizations. Combine that with drinking and you can pretty much just send me a ticket and bill me, and I will be there.

And now Absolut has joined the fun with a new flavor with the profits going to New Orleans. It says in the ad, mango with a spicy kick, so hopefully it is good. They are giving all the profits to chairty for the gulf region. It would be nice if they could do 100% of sales, or 50% of sales or something where you know how much is going to charity, but hey, something is better than nothing.

http://www2.absolut.com/neworleans

As for beer drinking, I think I might actually get to Olympic Drug, beer list in hand, to try and get a few new beers down my gullet.

It's still on...

Quit being such a fucking baby, Gus. You're not alone, I just hate blogging. So does Dicko, but we're still in this thing. In fact, I'm enjoying beer #207 as I type - Kona Fire Rock Pale Ale.

Here's the update since my last:

8/10/2007 - Big Sky Brewing Moose Drool
8/11/2007 - Fire Station 5 Brewing Co Golden Brigade Blonde
8/12/2007 - Fire Station 5 Brewing Co Fire Drill ESB
8/13/2007 - Fire Station 5 Brewing Co Fire Boat Amber
8/14/2007 - Fire Station 5 Brewing Co Steam Pumper IPA
8/15/2007 - Bruegel Amber Ale
8/16/2007 - Scuttlebutt Amber Ale
8/17/2007 - Fosters Lager
8/18/2007 - Stix Bodacious Belgian Blonde Ale
8/19/2007 - Green Valley Organic Wild Hop Lager
8/20/2007 - Baron Pils
8/21/2007 - Heineken Premium Light Lager
8/22/2007 - Beck's Premier Light
8/23/2007 - Big E Copper Ale
8/24/2007 - Bohemia
8/25/2007 - Kona Brewing Company Longboard Lager
8/26/2007 - Red Bach Rodenbach
8/27/2007 - Rainier
8/28/2007 - Boulder Beer Company Hazed & Infused Dry Hopped Ale
8/29/2007 - Augustijn Ale
8/30/2007 - Trader Joe's Bohemian Lager
8/31/2007 - Maritime Pacific Skull Creek Lager
9/1/2007 - Bornem Triple Abbey Ale
9/2/2007 - Corona Light
9/3/2007 - Widmer Drop Top Amber
9/4/2007 - Full Sail Pale Ale
9/5/2007 - Boundary Bay Scotch Ale
9/6/2007 - Pyramid Crystal Weizen
9/7/2007 - Stix IPA
9/8/2007 - Skookum Dark & Hairy Porter
9/9/2007 - Birra Moretti
9/10/2007 - Kona Brewing Company Fire Rock Pale Ale

damn

Well...no one posts, people aren't keeping track any more, and it looks like this is turning into another good idea that will fall apart. I haven't been to Portland still to get a bunch new beers, I have had almost everything in town unless I want to start buying 12 packs of shit beer for 4 bucks, so I am losing interest as well. I was near a brewery over the holiday weekend, but no one wanted to go in, so I have to wait until we go up to Booth's cabin later in the year I guess. I'm having another Labatt's Blue from my 12 pack, but that's my first new beer besides the Singha I had at a Thai restaurant near Booth's cabin. They have this at Hart-Cs too, so I guess I will have another one soon. But I am close to falling behind the 2 a day pace and look like I will just be keeping track for the sake of trying new beers forever rather than double 365. At least I hit 365 instead of wussing out...