50 from 50 – Oregon

Fitting that I knocked off my adopted state of California and now my home state of Oregon. Widmer has been a major player in Oregon and for those who only think wheat beer with lemon wedges then you do not know Widmer. How about a cherry oak dopplebock? Citra hops? or their W series like this years model the Pitch Black IPA?
w10 PB IPA

50 from 50 – NEW YORK

1 beer down and 49 to go! The journey is underway. I received this bottle of Local # 2 about the same time as I got my 33 Beers rating book and I decided that each time I review a beer from a new state this year I would include a pdf of the rating and my notes.
NY FW

This was a really nice beer but it didn’t blow my socks off. I was hoping for more orange and spices in it and to me it was a little thin. The alcohol catches up to you and I had a nice glow by the time the Rose Bowl was into the 4th quarter but it didn’t wow me like Local # 1 did. Now that may be because I had # 1 at the brewery in Brooklyn.

50 Beers – 50 States

50 beers 50 states

This year, I will be embarking upon a typical blog conceit.

The timed challenge.

My challenge will probably not be made into a book or a movie with Meryl Streep. I will endeavor to review at least one new (to me) beer that was brewed in each of the 50 states in the union.

Just to the left, in the sidebar, will be a box score, so to speak, of how far I have traveled. I will also update which states I “got” that week. I will not be able to accomplish this on my own. Only so much beer flows into Southern California. I will need help from anyone out there in craft beer land to get me beer brewed in Wyoming or South Dakota or even Kentucky. You will get my eternal gratitude and a big thank you on one of the blog posts if you help me out.

Let’s get 2010 started!