While watching the Ducks take over the Holiday Bowl last night a few celebration beers were opened. Among them an ‘06 and ‘07 Abyss. I was really looking forward to the ‘06, last time I had this was about a year ago and it was excellent, unfortunately now after two years this bottle had started [...]
Ahhh, it feels so good to have the holidays over and be back in snow-less Portland. For the holidays we headed down to Southern Oregon to visit the soon-to-be inlaws for the Holidays. Using some Jedi mind tricks I was able to tie in two brewpub visits into the trip.
First on the list was the [...]
Nothing has changed, more snow, cars seeming to disappear into the ground, no good pubs in walking distance, what’s left to do but dig into the cellar. Bill, from It’s Pub Night, had encouraged me to try the old Deschutes ‘03 Jubel ale that I had found in my cellar during one of my last [...]
