Last weekend was the always popular Real Ale Festival at Pizza Port in Carlsbad. Friday had an afternoon VIP session with some incredible beers — for the few minutes that they lasted (we had to hear about them at the Lost Abbey tasting room that night). And Friday night and Saturday afternoon were quite the […]

New Taphandles

New pig

Oh my…West Coast IPA

Eric, Andy. & Scott

Pliny the Younger on tap @ Stone

Bruno’s for dinner tonight

Travise is the ANHEUSER~BUSH Rep

Justin & James

This month’s Celebrator has the Lost Abbey crew on the cover — and pretty much every page. Best part IMHO — I think Bo’s (second from left) fly is open.

My 1st Brithday gift from Cheryl

This is called an Irish Car Bomb!

Our 1st pint

Molly has her “I’m 21, now where’s the bar” tiara on and she’s making good use of it

We are now here at Churchills

Ivan and Matt @ the CFO Roundtable Golf Tournament. Avant Garde and Devotion are good golf aids

Cool, Reb n I r @ Churchill’s. She’s having a cider n I’m having a Hoptrip

This is QB n Bonnie visiting from Durham, NC. they’ll be @ Lost Abbey later today.

Wandered across this story as I stood at the gas station filling my car with $4.32/gallon gas (welcome to California). Turns out no matter what the economy, people buy beer. Think I’ll go have one to help soothe the $85 chunk that just got taken out of my wallet. Beer is recession-proof (via 11Alive.com, Atlanta, […]

We are over at Backstreet Brewery in Vista and brewer Adam Carbonell has finally put Molly’s Select Porter on tap. Naturally, I am very happy because a) it was made just for me, and b) it’s really good.

Chris

Ivan & Staci

the place isn’t quite ready, but when it is it will be awesome. there is at least 50 taps and a huge bottle fridge

Joel & Jordan

This is Matt The New Larry

Ahhhhh…a cool Devotion on a bloody hot day

Monica is serving us well @ Shakespeare’s

Matt n Gregg @ Shakespeare’s Pub

Josh n Gregg drinkng a Smithwicks n Boddingtons @ Shakespeare’s

Tomme

Veritas 03

Tomme’s is talking

Tomme is talking to the home brewers

Tomme’s speaking notes

Ken

Scott The Home Brewer

We’re playing host to the Society of Barley Engineers homebrewers club. Tomme will be talking about blending barrel-aged beers to them.

Vegas isn’t know for a great beer selection, but we found one at a bar called 24 in New York New york. Twenty taps – all craft brews. awesome.

I can’t find the bartender

unbelievable. we ran into some brewery friends on the way to nine fine irish men

They’ve got Pipeline Porter and at least 8 others on tap. A total of 25 taps in all — all of which are craft brews. (Want a macrobrew? Sorry, bottles only.)

96 Degrees, but that’s okay because we’ve got a 12 pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon

Brandon & Ben dropped by the brewery one last time for a pint or two. After this they’re off to Seattle where Brandon is moving. Best of luck Brandon. Cheers!

From tues eveningRR Temptation w/sour dough , brie, and pepperoni. And of course some fresh fruit puff pastries.

Molly is sorta listening to the World Beer Cup intro

We’re at the world beer cup awards doing a little sampling before we go in

Yes it’s a crappy photo because we’re at the back. but Charlie Papazian has finally kicked off the awards.

Dave

From wed eveSienna is enjoying some Horny Devil as an after dinner beverage.

Here’s the kids from Montana’s Lang Creek Brewing

Molly with Justin whon was running the jockey box in front of the keg washing line. Alas, now they’ve stopped serving beer.

That’s Adam with Mari who is making beer floats with Stone Smoked Porter

Molly and Adam from Backstreet in Vista

Peter and George from Sacramento Brewing

A little reunion

charred Italian sausage. It’s ok because it’s dark and the beer is decent

Molly and Adam Avery

we’re drinking at the Stone Brewery industry party for CBC. Yes it is awesome.

Floris Apple..think Apple Jolly Rancher w/beer.

Floris Apple…eat your heart out Lindeman’s

Firestone Velvet Merkin!Mmm…mmm.

Churchill’s begins their crazy CBC lineup today. Take alook @ the board

Molly worked up a thirst buying clothes in San Francisco so we had to duck into a pub for a black and tan and an order of spicy french fries

We’re with a guy who can’t drink beer. Figure that out. Update: Okay, as you can see from the post time, it was rather late, and we were… uh… well imbibed. (Cameraphones are hard to work in that condition.) Anyway, the photo was supposed to be of Michael, who is allergic to gluten and therefore […]

Michael never smiles except when he’s drinking teo rivers cider

We’re in San Francisco for the next couple of days. Right now we’re having a pint or two in Johnny Foile’s on O’Farrell. Heading off to the Toronado later.

So you’ve got a few hundred pounds of raisins that you need to caramelize for that Belgian beer you’re making. How do you do it? Pizza oven? Broiler? Barbecue in the back of a pickup? Well if you’re the nut cases at Port Brewing/Lost Abbey, you dump all your raisins in a hopback, buy a […]

Still life at Karl Strauss A saison that Karl did. I don’t like many of their beers but I like this one. Overall I’m glad belgians are replacing IPA’s as the ‘in beer.’

Andy & Melody Andy is a brewer for Karl Strauss (I forget which location), but he’s not actually at Karl Strauss, he’s at Backstreet Brewing in Vista, Calif. visiting with his buddy Adam who is the new head brewer here. Adam used to brew at the Karl Strauss in Carlsbad, Calif., but now he’s brewing […]

It’s not just the beer, the food is great too thanks to chef Vince

That’s Stone Brewing’s Chili looking at us from inside Pizza Port – or as we call it, ‘beer jail’

We’re here at the Belgian beer festival in Carlsbad. This is Matt Dolman who has been here for7 hours already. he looks like it.

Mmmm…New Belgium La Folie @ Churchill’s Pub

Now I’m having the Monks Cafe sour. I’m pretty sure I’ve met the guy who brewed this.

I’m not saying this is a reflection on the owner, but the menu is so tiny I can’t read it. anyone have a magnifying glass?

CBC Stupid Stout

The beer board

Amanda & Dana

Black Chocolate Stout

Shandy Bass is a lemon flavored and sweetened drink made with “real” Bass beer. Less than .5% alcohol. It is very sweet and tastes vaguely of beer.

Jolly Pumpkin ES Bam on cask @ Churchill’s

Solana’s Anniversary beer. Guru IIPA. Sent it to blog too!

Devotion on a warm spring eve @ Lost Abbey.

Jolietjake & John

MJ’s beer for the night

Greenflash

Inversion IPA @ the Getty Center