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We Made it to Seattle
After a bit of delay, we made it to Seattle last night. After all that waiting around, we sure needed a few beers and luckily there is a brewpub 5 minutes from the Seattle Airport. (If only all airports were like that.) Good food and beer for weary travelers. One piece of advice, don’t argue with the stewardess unless you want to get thrown off the flight.
Today, we are off to the Olympic Peninsula where we will hit two or three more breweries and hopefully get some hiking in if the weather permits. Rain is expected the next few days and there are flash flood warnings for Olympic National Park. Oh… and there is a lavender festival…
Pacific Northwest Here We Come!
We’re in the final planning stages for our trip to the Pacific Northwest. We fly up to Seattle a week from Friday.
We will be hiking Olympic National Park, the Oregon Coast and some places in between.
As for beer, I have about a dozen breweries targeted that we are going to visit, plus visiting a few that we have already been to. We haven’t been to Bridgeport since the remodel so I am excited to see the new pub.
We are staying at 3 brewery hotels… Olympic Club in Centralia, WA, Rogue in Newport, OR plus the Inn at Cape Kiwanda/Pelican Pub and Brewery in Pacific City, OR. After spending many a night in a German brewery hotel, this will be our first American experience.
To top everything off, we are making our return to the Oregon Brewers Festival… We haven’t been since 1999 which was our 7th straight OBF.
And we will be filming for beergeekTV especially at the OBF. Track us down… we will be at the dinner on Wednesday and the festival on Thursday (and maybe Sunday).
If you want to see our complete itinerary you can click here.
Monterey Beer Festival
We survived another Monterey Beer Festival and congrats to Jeff Moses for putting on a packed event. There were a lot of events going on this weekend on the Peninsula so the size of the crowd was impressive. There were a number a great beers and we had some good craic with friends. The only negative about the festival was that most of the breweries ran out of beer several hours before the end. We didn’t do any filming for beergeekTV mainly because the bands were so frickin’ loud. I guess that is my second negative. And if I had one piece of advice for Jeff, it would be no more marketing gimmick beers… no more ‘stripper ale’ no more ‘nude beer’….
Our neighbor, Carmel Valley Brewing was there and Dean’s pale ale I have to say was a hit. It went very quickly… Of the beer I had not tried before, the ESB from English Ales in Marina has to be the best beer I have tasted from them in years. Other than that, my hats off to Green Flash from San Diego for their IPA and Firehouse in Sunnyvale for their IPA as well.
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Sierra Nevada Celebration 2006
We went to some friends place in Santa Cruz on the 4th and I forgot to mention that they had some 2006 Sierra Nevada Celebration. I had a few and have to say it was amazing. The beer still has held onto that malty goodness that makes it one of my favorite beers. If you can find some, I would recommend buying it.