This blog has been getting a lot of attention from the folks directed to this blog via my SEOmoz profile. So welcome, everyone. I find myself only slightly embarrassed that you are here, but that will pass in another week or so. It's interesting to have a considerably "personal" blog in so public a space, but it's happened before-- when my old blog, Schoolgirl Sophistry was hosted on the UO's .edu servers and became the #1 Google hit for the search term "schoolgirl." ... yeah. Nevertheless, I'll continue this social experiment until I get Dooced or worse. Why not?
I forgot to mention the beer tasting I went to with my dad last weekend. A friend of Justin's & mine spends much of her office job winning radio contests. She's the one who hooked the neo-con company Jimmy Dean into putting on the Sausage Fest for the people at The Abbey. So she won two tickets to Hops on Equinox, a beer fest at the Seattle center. For them, we gained one $20 entry each, with a souvenir glass and six free 6 oz. tastings, though for some reason they gave us not SIX but NINE tasting tickets each. Mmm-MM, 54 ounces of free beer! We spent many of our trying the "red carpet" imported beers, which cost two each. Nevertheless, there wasn't much to do but drink and refill and I soon found myself slightly tanked. We ended up spending our last three tickets on mini meat pies from Pies & Pints. I ought to record what we tasted, for good measure, so...
( Click here to read the list!)
Porter:
*Scuttlebutt Brewing Co. - Porter Dry Hop wih Oak
Red Ale:
*Lagunitas Brewing Co. - Lagunitas Imperial Red
Stout:
*Young's - Young's Double Chocolate Stout [this went well with cake]
"Other":
*Chimay - Chimay Cinqcents (Triple)
*De Proufbrouwerji - Bottleworks Van den Vern Grand Cru [WTF?]
*New Belgium Brewing Co. - 1554
*New Belgium Brewing Co. - Skinny Dip [Yum!]
*Stone Brewery - Arrogant Bastard
Draft Cider:
*Wyder's Cider - Wyder's Raspberry Cider
I'm proud to say that I've developed a taste for the stuff, even if Justin still can't handle it. I like beers without a bitter aftertaste. Actually, I pretty much enjoy any beer that doesn't have an aftertaste-- that's what kills it for me. I guess the same can be said of life. *chuckles* Anyhow, we've got a full weekend planned with an early start and late end tomorrow (a massage in-between, hurrah!) so I'm off to bed.
Posted on March 30, 2006 @ 10:34 PM | 5 comments
Comments:
I'm so proud of you, beer drinking girl!! ;)
The Grand Cru would be classed as a Belgian Strong Dark Ale, as categories go... I know, I'm a beer geek, but there are worse things to geek out over.
For beer-geekage, check out beeradvocate.com-- they'll help you out with beer geek questions (if you happen to have such things).
By 
inkandpen, at
7:43 AM, March 31, 2006
Mmmmm Arrogant Bastard... delicious...
By 
Rachel, at
8:49 AM, March 31, 2006
Mmm... 1554... mmm...
I'm going to be so sad when I move away from a place where I can get all those brews at my local store. Except maybe the Grand Cru.
By Cory P., at
12:58 PM, March 31, 2006
hey, this is random as fuck but you're a smart, literary-minded gal who lives in seattle:
what can you tell me about the post-intelligencer / its reputation / etc.?
By , at
12:56 PM, April 01, 2006
Hey! I just bought Arrogant Bastard beer this past weekend! Found your blog through Monk. I like it!
By Goose and Gander, at
8:04 PM, April 03, 2006
