Cheers to Deschutes

Friday, September 11th, 2009

I thought it fitting to give a quick cheers to the folks at the Portland Deschutes pub for their quality beers and ever changing tap selection. So here goes my little rant.
Over the last two weeks I’ve had lots of friends and family fly in from out of town, what this meant was less blogging [...]

Pliny

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Upon the storm of twitter feeds and brew news boards it was announced that Pliny the Younger had arrive and been tapped at the Horse Brass pub on Monday. For those that haven’t heard of the beer it is an imperial version (of sorts) of Russian River Pliny the Elder. At 11% and a hundred [...]

New Years Eve 2008

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

I’m not a big fan of new years. Ryan Seacrest’s blathering, champagne, horrible music performances in Times Square, getting older, stupid sunglasses, people’s gnarly make out sessions to ring in the new year. It’s awful, embarrassing actually, and us West coast viewers don’t even get a live TV feed countdown for our west coast 12:00, [...]