Wayne and James wanted to be on the blog, so I obliged them.

Noah gets a Gold for Sticky Stout

Tomme’s cuvee gets gold

Charlie Papazian is giving the opening address and a tribute to Michael Jackson

If you’re with a brewery or the media there’s a special set of bathrooms just for you. Thank god!

Molly is ready for day 3. Yesterday was a very tough day. GABF is an athletic event.

Port Brewing and Tomme Arthur are small brewery and brewer of the year!

Veritas 002 gets silver in ex beer!

Judgement Day wins gold for specialty beer!

so we’re at the beer tasting post party and here is

Appaloos Grill

Okay, it’s a little blurry (you be here for 7 hours and tell me everything isn’t a little blurry), but this is Stan Hieryonmous and

I don’t know what possessed these guys to dress up like this, but it’s worth a photo so you all know what you’re missing. Hooray beer?

Port Brewing and the Lost Abbey gets small brewing company of the year!

After a long day of beer & food it’s often best to have a little refresher before moving on.

No Stetson, you’re not getting any. Drink your own beer.

From Long Beach, Calif. The dropped in to toast to Michael Jackson with us.

The boys are all very happy with their beers from Lost Abbey. Now we’re sending them on their way and Sage and I are off to see 3:10 to Yuma.

Charlie and Tomme are going to bust open a 40 of Mickey’s and toast their homies. Well, they’re going to bust open the 40 just as soon as Charlie figures out how to open it.

Charles Papazian dropped by The Lost Abbey after making an appearance at the homebrewer’s rally at Stone Brewing. Here he is with Tomme. (I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t know who Charles Papzian was until Sage explained it.)

It’s their first time visitng the brewery. I think they’re having a good time.

Tomme and Sage went over to Stone Brewing to the homebrewer’s rally. That leaves me running the bar with all these guys drinking beer. Should I be afraid?

Beer — it’s not just for breakfast anymore… But this one is!

Tomme’s having a Mickey’s Big Mouth. None of his doo rags are clean so he tied a plastic bar to his head instead. (This, ladies and gentlemen, is what great brewers look like in real life.)

We’re hanging out and tasting a variety of stuff at the bottle room at Pizza Port Carlsbad and in walks Logan Perkins, the West Coast rep for Belgian Beer importer D&V International. (That’s the lovely Colleen next to him.) For those who don’t know, Logan is (minorly) famous because he’s the guy who stole Zane […]

We’re taking a little mid-week break at the bottle room at Pizza Port Carlsbad this evening. Being the porter/stout girl that I am, I’m having a Lost Coast 8 Ball Stout for starters.

this is the first beer festival i have been to where roping haybales was a form of entertainment. hooray beer!

4000 people drinking great beer on the last night of the summer

A lot of people seem to be fascinated by the fact that all the Lost Abbey Beers are cork-stoppered. We keep getting asked “is this beer?”

people mobbing us and loving the beer. hooray beer!

The only thing cool about this beer is the name. But the girls they hired to pour are pretty fun.

Breckenridge Brewery is right next to us and they’ve got a couple of really nice girls pouring 471 IPA, Summer and Vanilla Porter. (The Vanilla Porter, btw — very tasty.)

Jr and spicy wings

Bathroom line

Not my drink

Black Butte

Stone IPA

Jasmine

the maker of America’s best beer right now is downing a secret blend Nah, that’s a lie. It’s a Mickey’s tall boy from the same gas station where Mojo gets burritos. Tomme loves the malt liquor. So the girls feed his habit. His only problem? “The beeches need to learn the difference between a quart […]

Me and Lona hanging out at the Stone Anniversary festival

The onion ring line (free onion rings!) is twice as long as any beer line. (Pretty much a toss up between Maui Brewing and Russian River).

I suppose if you spend your entire day deep frying onion rings while everyone else is off drinking good beer, you’d bee a little goofy too.

That’s Vinnie Cilurzo and a volunteer pour Blind Pig IPA. (More pics later)

Hey — we have signs! Tomme is very proud. We are pouring Hop 15 and a mystery beer everyone is calling Funk Barrel.

That’s Steve on the left (of Summer of Beer blog fame), and other Steve (who, as far as we know is not famous). The stopped by for breakfast and beer before heading out to the Stone Anniversary party

That’s a blow off barrel from yesterday’s High Tide fresh hopped IPA brewing. It is bubbling so hard the barrel shakes.

At the breakfast at Port. That’s a Pizza oven cooking bacon, chorizo, potatoes and ham – preety much everything but pizza!

Getting breakfast off to a good start with pulled pork sandwiches and beer!