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 […]
We got new Tap Handles and I love them!
New Taphandles
New pig
Matt is enjoying being at Churchills again!
Oh my…West Coast IPA
They are visiting from Hollywood!
Eric, Andy. & Scott
Pliny the Younger is a wonderful beer choice Matt!
Pliny the Younger on tap @ Stone
I’m having a bit of a change up tonight ~ It’s good!
Bruno’s for dinner tonight
He thinks we should try Leffe Blonde
Travise is the ANHEUSER~BUSH Rep
They hand made this beer display case for The Lost Abbey
Justin & James
manning and his new toy
Next up: Cover of Rolling Stone
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.
It’s an orchids
My 1st Brithday gift from Cheryl
Ivan knows how much I love these! Next to beer I can’t like without one ~ or two!
This is called an Irish Car Bomb!
Sage is drinking Boddingtings Pub Ale & I have a Black Butte! Yummy!
Our 1st pint
Molly at Churchills in her birthday hat
Molly has her “I’m 21, now where’s the bar” tiara on and she’s making good use of it
Ivan put a keg of Black Butte Porter on for me!
We are now here at Churchills
It’s My Birthday Today!
Today is my birthday. I love to celebrate it every year with good friends and, well you guessed it, great beer. Tonight I’m meeting a bunch of friends over at Churchill’s Pub in San Marcos, Ca If you get a chance, please swing by and buy me a happy birthday pint. We will be there […]
Ivan and Matt @ the CFO Roundtable Golf
Ivan and Matt @ the CFO Roundtable Golf Tournament. Avant Garde and Devotion are good golf aids
I do enjoy hanging out at Churchills!
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
This is QB n Bonnie visiting from Durham, NC. they’ll be @ Lost Abbey later today.
Good news: beer is recession proof
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, […]
Molly’s Select Porter
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.
He is a very nice bar tender
Chris
Staci owns The Ritual Tavern
Ivan & Staci
at the Toronado opening in San Diego
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
We stopped by Churchills to pick up our group to go to the Toronado tonight
Joel & Jordan
Matt will be the new intern here at The Lost Abbey
This is Matt The New Larry
Private Party at the Toronado San Diego Tonight
Tonight is “friends and familiy” night at the new Toronado Bar in San Diego. (offspring of the world famous Toronado in San Francisco). The public opening of the bar is next Wednesday, but we’ve been lucky enough to get invited to the party tonight as guest of Ivan Derezin, owner of Churchill’s Pub & Grill. […]
The Lost Abbey
Ahhhhh…a cool Devotion on a bloody hot day
JOSH kills another lung
Monica is serving us well @ Shakespeare’s
Shakespeare’s Pub
Matt n Gregg @ Shakespeare’s Pub
Another Matt Dolman Pix
Josh n Gregg drinkng a Smithwicks n Boddingtons @ Shakespeare’s
He didn’t want his picture taken!
Tomme
Vince & Chirs
Veritas 03
He is talking about the making of Isabelle Proximus
Tomme’s is talking
He had a lot to say tonight
Tomme is talking to the home brewers
Couldn’t he find a piece of paper
Tomme’s speaking notes
A good home brewer
Ken
Last time he was here Scott broke a lamp!
Scott The Home Brewer
Port Brew/ Lost Abbey hosting Society of Barley Engineers
We’re playing host to the Society of Barley Engineers homebrewers club. Tomme will be talking about blending barrel-aged beers to them.
We found good beer on the strip in Vegas
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.
You have to love Los Vegas!
I can’t find the bartender
Guess who we ran into in far away places
unbelievable. we ran into some brewery friends on the way to nine fine irish men
I’m in Los Vegas in NY NY at Pour 24 ~ The girl bartender rocks ~ the guy sucks
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.)
How the spend a sunday off
96 Degrees, but that’s okay because we’ve got a 12 pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon
Brandon is moving to Seattle. This is his last stop
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!
Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey 2nd Anniversary & Special Releases
World Beer Cup Champion Brewery Port Brewing / The Lost Abbey will be celebrating its second anniversary next weekend with a big party, music, food, and (of course) lost of Port / Lost Abbey beers. Additionally, they’ll be putting out three new releases including Port 2nd Anniversary (a huge double IPA), Inferno (one hell of […]
From tues eveningRR Temptation w/sour do
From tues eveningRR Temptation w/sour dough , brie, and pepperoni. And of course some fresh fruit puff pastries.
breakfast the day after WBC
molly at the world beer cup
Molly is sorta listening to the World Beer Cup intro
at World Beer Cup awards
We’re at the world beer cup awards doing a little sampling before we go in
world beer cup awards begin
Yes it’s a crappy photo because we’re at the back. but Charlie Papazian has finally kicked off the awards.
The hair of the dog blog
Dave
Once a again Matt is out smarted by his dog!
From wed eveSienna is enjoying some Horny Devil as an after dinner beverage.
The kids from Lang Creek Brewing
Here’s the kids from Montana’s Lang Creek Brewing
that’s it there’s no more beer
Molly with Justin whon was running the jockey box in front of the keg washing line. Alas, now they’ve stopped serving beer.
beer float anyone?
That’s Adam with Mari who is making beer floats with Stone Smoked Porter
Adam from Backstreet
Molly and Adam from Backstreet in Vista
looking in the smokers cattlepen
Peter and George from Sacramento Brewing
Molly and Teri Fahrundorf
A little reunion
food at Stone reception
charred Italian sausage. It’s ok because it’s dark and the beer is decent
Molly and Adam
Molly and Adam Avery
CBC reception at Stone Brewing
we’re drinking at the Stone Brewery industry party for CBC. Yes it is awesome.
Matt is quite happy tonight at Churchills
Floris Apple..think Apple Jolly Rancher w/beer.
It’s yummy
Floris Apple…eat your heart out Lindeman’s
This will be a great week for beer in SD
Firestone Velvet Merkin!Mmm…mmm.
Churchill’s begins their crazy CBC lineu
Churchill’s begins their crazy CBC lineup today. Take alook @ the board
Spicy fries and a pint for lunch
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
still at the Toronado
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 […]
at the toronado with michael
Michael never smiles except when he’s drinking teo rivers cider
Pubbing in San Francisco today
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.
Happy 75th American Beer Drinkers
We’d just like to wish everyone a happy 75th anniversary of the return of legal beer to the U.S. And now let’s all hoist a glass and sing along with us to Weird Al’s Beer Song: Oh… what is the malt and liquor? What gets you drunken quicker? What comes in bottles or in cans? […]
Hopback, raisins, flamethrower = beer
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 […]
Session 14: Beer People
Kudos to Stonch for picking Beer People as the subject of Session Number 14. As frequenters of this blog know, more than beer beer itself, we’re all about beer people (well, that and pictures of beer). Why? Because beer seems to be a social glue that brings the most unlikely of people together. None of […]
Saison at Karl Strauss Sorrento Mesa (San Diego)
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.’
A Karl Strauss Brewer
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 […]
Pizza Port Belgian Beer Party Wrap-up
Here’s a few photos from the Belgian Beer Party at Pizza Port Carlsbad yesterday. Naturally, it was a huge beer list. This list is only one side of the bottle list. There was also a draft list and another list of “special” Belgians. (Click on the image to see a full-sized, readable list) This […]
live blogging Belgian Beer Festival
It’s not just the beer, the food is great too thanks to chef Vince
Chili at the festival
That’s Stone Brewing’s Chili looking at us from inside Pizza Port – or as we call it, ‘beer jail’
Live from the Belgian Beer Festival
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’
Mmmm…New Belgium La Folie @ Churchill’s Pub
monks cafe sour flemish ale
Now I’m having the Monks Cafe sour. I’m pretty sure I’ve met the guy who brewed this.
scott blair of Hamiltons is gay
Hamiltons menu way too small
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?
We are at Hamitons Tavern
CBC Stupid Stout
The beer board
Out from PA and they are a blast! w00t!
Amanda & Dana
Limiter Bottling – Winter 03 ~ 04 Brooklyn Brewery ~ It’s so good
Black Chocolate Stout
Shandy Bass sweetened beer drink
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
Jolly Pumpkin ES Bam on cask @ Churchill’s
It was so good!
Solana’s Anniversary beer. Guru IIPA. Sent it to blog too!
Devotion on a warm spring eve @ Lost Abb
Devotion on a warm spring eve @ Lost Abbey.
PP Solana turns 21
The 1st time we have seen each other in 20 years and choise the Lost Abbey to mee
Jolietjake & John
Jolly Pumpkim and enchiladas
MJ’s beer for the night
Green Flash Double Stout
Greenflash
Inversion IPA @ the Getty Center
Inversion IPA @ the Getty Center