This past weekend, I attended the 16th Annual Holiday Ale Fest in Portland, OR. The 5-day winter beer fest took place under a large tent equipped with heat lamps in the heart Pioneer Courthouse Square, underneath the city’s largest Christmas tree. More than 50 winter ales were poured this year. The Holiday Ale Fest is [...]
This post is a little late, so I apologize to both my sister and Jester King Craft Brewery. But regardless, better late than never. Right? I’m really excited to have a “guest” writer on my site for this post. And I am particularly excited because this writer is also my younger (only) sister. The most [...]
Although San Diego was able to severely kick my a$$ on my first day of beer week, I was able to regain momentum and score a win for The Wench on the second day. Morning came fast on Day 3. Unfortunately, our party of 4 (Pj, Alex, Tay & myself) dropped down to a party [...]
I must apologize for leaving you all hanging on the San Diego beer week updates. I’ve recently been plagued with a series of unfortunate events and have fallen off of the Internet map. So where were we? I last left off with the score: San Diego = 1. The Wench = 0. Truth be told, [...]
For those of you who are lucky enough to follow me on twitter, you are probably acutely aware of my recent voyage to San Diego for beer week. In fact, I’m almost positive that many of you may hate me for the events I attended and the beers I tasted. Heck, I would hate me [...]
In my last post, I noted that NOLA is not particularly known for its beer bars. There are a handful of decent beer bars and only one or two that have noteworthy beer lists. The poses a predicament for the local beer geeks. Frequenting the same bars over and over can get rather old fast. [...]