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!

Ken Schmidt warming up for a dat of beer with a burrito at Lost Abbey

seven beers to choose from… pick your favorite

some fresh hops made it, some didn’t. Long live the hop.

Does it get much better than this? A cold Hop 15 on a hot September 1st afternoon! The Stone glass is Sick is it not? Cheers, Tom and Wendy

A friend of Monday Night Brewery fancies himself a chef, and is using tonight as his first pass at combining beer with food. We’ll be drinking 2 beers: Lagunitas Maximus IPA with dinner and Rogue Shakespeare Stout with dessert. I’ll send a pic of the food too! Happy Labor Day, everyone!

Hanging out with G-Love and Trixie and having a pitcher of Carlsbad Chronic Pale Ale on a really hot afternoon in San Clemente

Tomme having some King Cobra and readying himself for the next Session blog post

That is Damian. He looks like Hootie from the Blowfish. He is braiding a girls hair while we have a beer at Port Brewing. He is also thinking of being the next senator from Idaho Hooray beer!

Titan IPA helping ring in the eve of the first college football Saturday of the Fall. Fight On for ol’ SC!

Ok, boys and girls, the live beer pix blog email line is open! Show us how you’re celebrating the end-of-summer weekend in living color. Email / SMS your beer pix to: pix @ mybeerpix.com For all the nitty gritty details on how you can blog live to our site, check out the previous post.

what a mess. hundreds of glasses to clean. but everyone had a good time.

Vince and Tomme on the dock with Vince’s “Junkyard kitchen”. Amazing what these guys can do with some barley, barrels and a BBQ

Those a cinnamon roles that Vince made to pair with The Angel’s Share. Mmmmm!

That’s Steve (as in Steve of Summer of Beer fame) on the far right, a couple of lovely young ladies and yet another guy named Steve (or Stephen). W00t Steve!

All attendees got to bottle and cork their own Veritas

A sell-out crowd lines up to get in.

Stop number three is Downtown Johnny Brown’s located in the civic center plaza just off third street. A good beer bar for local brews, but deserted on weekends. (Mostly a business crowd from the courthouse and civic center.) I’m drinking a Speedway Stout and Beer Sage is having Sculpin IPA from Ballast Point

Damian says this is a great beer bar. I hope he’s right. Our next stop

i’m having a Young’s chocolate stout and Lindeman’s framboise mixed. It tastes like a raspberry cheesecake

So the kids have gone off to ComicCon and we have an excuse to explore San Diego’s Gaslamp district in search of the perfect beer bar in downtown SD. Right now we’re having an Irish breakfast at Dublin Square just off 4th street. We’ll blog throughout the day and let you know what we find.

crap we are at obriens and i’m toast TOny looks lovely in his shirt, doesn’t he?

We’re at San Diego Brewing Co. enjoying a few of their bbers.

This is the tap line up at San Diego Brewing

This is Hamilton’s Bar in North Park, San Diego. Great beer selection. I’m having a Racer 5 from Bear Republic. Tony’s decided to become a cross-dresser.

we are at hamitons. It’s dark in hre.

Churchills owner Ivan is finally getting his drink on!

first stop is port brewing

off to port brewing / lost abbey

damian braids my hair so i have the proper german drinking girl outfit

it’s 9:30 – we’ve started drinking at churchill’s. it’s all down hill from here!

I know, our postings have been a little slow the past couple of weeks. I’ve been really busy with the summer rush here at the Mercantile, and Sage has a new contract with a security software company that’s kept him from doing much of anything other than… well, actually, I don’t know what it is […]

Okay, we’ve moved on to Gentle Ben’s Brewing right next to the University of Arizona.

Nimbus has 10 beers on tap right now and we’re about to try them all. The head brewer is about to come down and talk to us about them. Should be good!

Gotta love the art on the front door of Nimbus. They love the chimp more than anyone. We’re off to try a full flight of all their beers!

Well, the original Crystal Palace burned, but this one has been perfectly restored. Having a New Belgium Fat Tire and enjoying the scenery.

Thank god we finally made it through that line! Now it’s time to do some beer tasting!

I decided to get a henna tattoo before heading into the beer festival. W00t!