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!

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!