Archive for October, 2009

Northern California Rare Beer Roundup – October 2009

The weather’s cooling down, the leaves are dropping, and I’m in desperate need of some of those fancy little white pumpkins. We’ve been California residents for 11 days. This is your October ‘09 NorCal Rare Beer Roundup. [...]

The Things One Keeps in Empty Bottles of Rare Beer

My wife and I recently moved to Sebastopol, California, a city we’d decided upon as an ideal spot for ourselves during our three-month road trip a year previous: crunchy, quiet, heavily walkable, good beer. All of the places we’d lived before had been determined by school, from sunless Pittsburgh to lake-effect snowfall in upstate New [...]

Taking the BJCP Plunge

A couple of weeks ago, Ali and I ventured down to Reno’s recently-opened Cheeseburger Island Style restaurant (god help us, I thought), following a tip that they would have good beer. At the very least, it was close to Whole Foods, and grocery shopping trips always seem more successful slightly toasted. [...]

Absolutely, Positively, Collaboratively Evil

The three breweries behind the 2008 Collaborative Evil project – Flossmoor Station, FiftyFifty Brewing, and Lucky Bucket Brewing – have returned in 2009 with a new recipe approach and a few more malevolently inclined friends. [...]