RBTTD Jan 2

Random Beer Thought of the day (RBTTD): Had 2 beers last night , a Belgian Ale (Uncommon Brewers - Golden State Ale) and and English Strong Ale ( 21st Amendment - Allies win the War!) both were in cans. Don't think that would have happened 5 years ago. Maybe not even 2 years ago.

Happy New Year 2012

Looking forward to 2012. I think it might be on of the more amazing craftbeer years ever. What with all the new breweries opening and the old standards poised to crank out some EBB (Even Better Beer) than last year. Sorry liver I will try and be good to you.

Merry x-mas

Its been a slow year beer wise for me. I hope to 1) drink more beer in the coming year and 2) write about it on this blog.

Random beer thought of the day..

And one that will probably need more thought. It is interesting that so much of ones impression of a beer has to do with outside factors. The temperature, what kind of day you had, even what you ate for dinner all have an effect on the beer you are drinking. Of course it is up to you to be able to separate those 'outside influences' in a beer evaluation, but there are times that its very hard and nearly impossible to do so. The question then is, should you worry about those or just add them to the evaluation?

Happy 4th of July

Don't forget to drink American this weekend. No Bud/Miller/Coors products OK?

Mondays and Beer...

I sometimes think Mondays are the only reason beer was ever invented.....

6/25 Beer Tasting.

Weekly tasting List... Pretty decent beers this week.

Uinta - 4+ Wyld Pale Ale

Pretty Things - Field Mouse's Farewell

The Bruery - Provisions:Salt of the Earth

Caldera - Kettle Series Hoppertunity Knock

Flying Fish - Exit 4 American Tripel

Mikkeller - Beer Hop Breakfast

But then we sample good beer every week...

Blogging?

Ok I realize I have not added anything since I got back from GABF in Sept. I promise to add stuff more often than that, not sure if anyone in the universe is reading it, but.......

Thoughts from GABF

OK I promise to post something about GABF in the next few days.

Deliverance!!

I have deliverance... 6 bottles worth, or at least I will when my shipment from Lost Abbey arrives.

Shall we take bets on how many people comment on the amount or lack of carbonation of this beer?

Beer Day?

Beer shopping at Total WIne in Tustin. Spent $120 on beer I haven't had yet.

Then off to Tap in Brea for Lunch and a beer sampler.

Yesterday was The Bruery and Tustin Brewing Co.

RBTOTD June 20,2010

I need to start drink more beer....

The inventory is growing instead of shrinking.

RBTOTD - June 19, 2010

Beer Stores...

Hey Total Wine can you open a store in the Bay Area somewhere? I promise I would shop there often. You guys kick could show BevMo how to do it right, instead of how they want to do it.

RBTOTD Jun 18, 2010

Is there a 12 step program for buying beer?

I know there are numerous programs for beer drinking, and I am not going there, but is there some program for a person who buys beer in a manner that could be considered, by a non-beer geek, as reckless?

I have 769 bottle of beer in 51 boxes in my beer closet and after coming back from a two day trip and a couple of stops at store in different areas I come home with 2 boxes and 22 new beers.

The question becomes do I have a problem?

The next question is should I care?

RBTOTD - 6/17/2010

Hats off to Sierra Nevada Brewing...

Despite being the 2nd largest Craft Brewing and the 6th largest brewer in the US they still have that small company feel to them.

Doing small things like using solar panels and fuel cell to recycling 90% of what they use at the brewery, they seem to be really concerned with doing things the right way.

The fact that they also make kick-ass beers that are available in all 5o states is just another plus.

To use that other companies slogan... This ones for you Sierra Nevada

Sierra Nevada Tour

Took a very generic but very nice tour of the Sierra Nevada Brewery today. One of the more interesting comments is that they are the 3rd largest employer in Chico, behind Chico State University and Enloe Hospital, with over 640 employees. The tour is very basic but the artwork in the brew area is amazing. I will post pics sometime soon. Part of Ken Grossmans Bottle collection is also on display, some pretty nice old beer bottles including all the early Sierra Nevada Bottles. Anybody remember when SN Pale ALe label was not like it is now?

A small beer geek moment.

I am currently on a quick vacation trip to Chico. Why Chico one may ask?

Well for one I haven’t been to this part of California in like forever. And two it gives me an excuse to visit Sierra Nevada Brewing.

You know you are close to Sierra Nevada Brewing when you pass the experimental hop yard. The place is VERY large, although you might not realize that at first. The place is very spread out and no where seem cramped or crowed. Just stopped at the taproom restaurant today. Sampled a couple of the Audition beers, half pints in a dimpled mug were $2.75. The food was good, a slightly step above the usual good BrewPub food. The burger was fresh ground beef and the fries were cooked in fresh hot oil. Service was excellent, the waitress allowed be time with my first beer before asking if I wanted to order food. Going to try and go by for the tour tomorrow. I did have to stop in the gift store and limited my beergeek purchases to a Mouse pad and a nice metal bar bottle opener.

1001 Beers....

Anyone read "1001 Beers you must taste before you die" ?
A nice book, and if anyone is asking, NO I have not counted how many of the 1001 I have tasted...

YET.....

My 1st guess would be around 50%

RBTOTD- May 22

It is time to start these up again.. so

after moving around and looking at beer all day, I think it is time to drink some beer...

Beer Geek act of the day

A moment of total Beer Geekdom. I was doing an inventory of the beer in the beer closet and realized if I took out the boxes of book and other crap that was in the closet I would have more room for beer, or at least I would not have to stack them as high...