Archive for October, 2008

Block 15 Brewing Co.

Monday, October 27th, 2008

This weekend we took a drive down to Albany to catch up with some friends. Albany, aka “fun town USA” made a really good excuse to drop into Corvallis and try out Block 15 brewery. After a nice drive down I5 and a quick stop at the corn maze, to appease the fall gods, we [...]

201 IPAs

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

I keep track of most of the beers i’ve had, and I noticed that sometime last week I broke the 200 mark of different IPAs. Another great reason to love the Pacific Northwest! Now with 201 IPAs behind me I thought it would be fun to look back at my top ten.
Top 10 IPAs i’ve [...]

J.W. Lees Manchester Star Ale

Monday, October 20th, 2008

I passed this up the first time I saw it, luckily I ran into Angelo who informed me that this was a joint venture between J.W. Lees and Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewing. If you don’t know Garrett Oliver, go pick up the book “The Brewmaster’s Table”, one heck of a good read about pairing [...]