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I keep promising myself to check beer blogs more often for new info and yet… I always seem to fall behind.
Here is an interesting homebrew shop variant from (you guessed it) Portland. The hub of H.U.B. and most new brew innovations.
Check out the homebrew shop and tap room HERE.
Thanks to the New School Blog for showcasing great stuff in Portland!
Not only has Glendale gotten a BevMo. We also have a place of our own to drink some quality craft beer.
Side-Bar is on a busy street near the first apartment that my wife and I had in Glendale. It is dark inside and a little low behind the bar but a warm and inviting place to sit on a comfy couch with a great beer.
Oh and did I mention that the tap beers are $3.00 for the rest of December? Kern River Rye Holiday for $3.00. Port Brewing’s High Tide for $3.00.
What is better than a new place to buy beer?
A new place to buy beer that I can walk to!
BevMo is coming to Glendale, California. I know they were already in place in next door Pasadena and in next door Burbank but now I can truly walk for 10 minutes and be at the front door.
Oh and they open TODAY!
Both Portland and Seattle have an epic amount of great stores to satisfy your beery needs. And now Seattle has a new entrant on the west side.
The Beer Junction is owned by Morgan Herzog and will be providing plenty of craft beer and Thursday night tastings too!
They join Seattle institutions like Bottleworks, Pike Street Beer & Wine, Full Throttle Bottles and 99 Bottles too. If you can’t find the beer for any occasion in Seattle, it is your own fault.
Oskar Blues’ newest down home beer joint celebrates beer culture with 43 craft taps, Southern-inspired BBQ & soul-saving live music. “This is an authentic craft beer bar right down to the keg based fountains” says owner Dale Katechis. An in-house smoker, named “the Midnight Toker”, stoked with local apple wood turns out slow smoked North Carolina style BBQ pork, spare ribs, beer-can chicken, salmon and turkey.
“Liquids & Solids is like the Big Muddy flowing through the Rocky Mountains,” says Oskar Blues founder and owner, Dale Katechis. “The slow, Southern style of cooking is the perfect match for American craft beer. Both are labors of love and have mouth-watering tastes people love to enjoy and savor.”
Set in the heart of Colorado craft beer country, Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids takes both its beer and food seriously. Jason Rogers, former executive chef at Denver’s J.W. Marriott and recognized by the James Beard Foundation – the ultimate kudos in the gourmet food world – oversees the kitchen. Menu features such items as smoked salmon fish and chips and a Dale (Pale Ale), or bourbon balls and a Ten FIDY (Imperial Stout).
Sounds good doesn’t it? And after visiting the Tasty Weasel, I know for sure it is.
The holiday seasonals seem to come earlier and earlier but to me, it is only winter warmer time when the Holiday Ale Festival arrives.
And not only can you get a wide variety of regular snowy offerings, there is an awesome amount of rare beers!
Check out some of last year’s rarities:
Brauerei Schloss Eggenberg • Samichlaus Bier (2005)
BridgePort Brewing Company • Old Knucklehead Batch #11 (2003)
Holiday Ale / Hair of the Dog Commemorative • JIM (2008)
Brasserie Dubuisson Freres • Scaldis Noel (2007)
Cascade Brewing Company • Barrel-Select Baltic Porter (2007)
Kona Brewing Company • Da Grind Buzz Kona Coffee Imperial Stout
Walking Man Brewing • Ho Ho Homo Erectus (2006)
Lompoc Brewery • Bourbon Barrel-Aged Pagan Porter
Widmer Brothers Brewing Company • Babushka’s Secret
It can be daunting just to keep up with the craft beer in your own backyard. But keep in mind that the beer revolution is not just happening here.
It is also happening in places as far flung as Australia. That’s where resources like the Beer Cartel come into play.
You can buy rare (to us) beer, join a beer of the month club or just learn more about the scene in Australia. If you don’t check it out today, it has been added to the links section for future viewing.
Beer stores are not just an American phenomenon. I have talked about Ojai Beverage, Sunset Beer and more recently The Beer Junction but you can get great foreign beer too.
Today’s example is Beer Shop ‘t Koelschip Oostende. Long name and it will take you longer to decide on what you want to buy. A selection of over 500 beers and growing.
Just be sure to leave extra room in your luggage to bring home some goodies.
Here are some photos from the Bruery Provisions in Old(e) Town(e) Orange.
The partially finished bottle cap sign
The O.C. Flight & the Fruit & Spice Flight
Bruery Provision beers and the new holiday seasonal.
Lists are very handy. Especially in places like Portland, where the beer is flowing seemingly on every corner.
That’s why this list of 12 from John Foyston and the Oregonian is sooo helpful.
How many of these fine establishments have you been to? I have been to exactly 1.
I better get cracking when I visit in December.