Black Butte XXIII - Deschutes Brewery (2011)

Oregon's Deschutes has teamed up with local chocolatier, Theo Chocolate, to bring a confectious and Fremonsterous treat.

Buttery bourbon, tempered cocoa, and charcoal candy.  Rum rye astringency with smoked vanilla tang.  Smoldering tart and syrup scorched finish. Let it warm and ride the imperialistic imbalance.  10.8%.

Ignored the best after dating of 06/15/12.

Tippler

Peter Atwood makes awesome tools equal parts artisan, indestructible, and functional. 

This 35ml shot cannon is turned from a solid bar of 303 stainless steel.  I'm clueless on the process but it's quite an amazing piece.

Celestial Norseman forge these for galactic single malts.

Sourvein - Black Fangs (2011)

For an afternoon descent into scotch, malfeasance, and BBQ. 

Plank walking and noose unravelling riffs with abdomen cudgelling drums and gangrenous flayed vocals.

Prior to anxiousness and dementia the enhanced interrogation of eardrums occurred at maximum volume.

SERE needs to make Sourvein part of their training.

1. Fangs
2. Societys Blood
3. Night Eyes
4. Gasp
5. Holy Transfusion
6. Flux
7. Nomadic
8. Gemini
9. Bleeding Charm
10. Nocturnal/Negative Phaze

                                     Sour-in-vein-tory

Evolutionary IPA - Two Beers Brewing Co.

Seattle's Two Beers is WA's first brewery to use 12 oz cans.

Pleasant pine with chunks of zesty peached and peppered citrus. Clean, refreshing, & bittered with coats of creamed grapefruit.  6.2%.

Crushed cans make great street hockey pucks.

LentilBlackBeanMushroomShrimp Tacos

Lentils, Cheapness, Black Beans, Mushrooms, Shrimp, Minimalism, Green Peppers, Red Onions, Avocado, Tomato, in Blue Corn Shells.

Twilight Summer Ale - Deschutes Brewery

Cut grass twisted with pear and baked honey biscuit.

Lemon wheat with buttered apple and toasted pine rind.  5%. 

Torche + Twilight (- Em).

Rum, White, and Blue

                Bourbon(d) Ribs and Yukon Gold Potato Salad

Capping off a gentlemanly vacation, with a beautiful lady, by engaging in culinary debauchery & WATERLATERN carving.

Jump off a silo on the 4th of July.

Yob @ El Corazón - 07/01/11

                                 See this band live, now.

Possible set list: Grasping Air, The Great Cessation, Prepare the Ground, Quantum Mystic, Ball of Molten Lead, or maybe Kosmos?

Victorinox - Golfer

Knife + Scissors + Divot Tool / Fork + Tweezers + Toothpick + Pen + Pin + Corkscrew + Mini Screwdriver.

Dax Riggs @ Sunset Tavern - 06/17/11

Dax delivered as always. Blurry picture and blurry recollection....

Night is the Notion, Ouroboros, Gravedirt on My Blue Suede Shoes, I Hear Satan, My Heart Awakes Screaming, Say Goodnight to the World, Wall of Death, Heartbreak Hotel, Living is Suicide, Let Me be Your Cigarette, Demon Tied to a Chair in My Brain, Stop: I'm Already Dead, Sleeping with the Witch, Lungs (?), Death Ain't Got No Mercy.

Great Unfurling

Summer

Wandering Wheat and a special saffron IPA from Fremont Brewery.

An establishment run by true gentlemen and a must visit if you're in Seattle.








Born of beer and grease.

Half Pound Halibut Tacos

Sautéed Asparagus, Mushrooms, Tomato, Green Pepper, Solstice  & Olive Oil Seared Halibut Soft Tacos topped with Wild Rice, Cheese, & Hot Sauced / Sour Creamed Yukon Gold Potatoes.

Hardly ♥ Healthy Cast Ironed Breakfast

Homemade Hashbrowns, 6 Spiced Sausage, Scrambled Buttered Eggs

Seve Ballesteros (04/09/57 - 05/07/11)

Happy Easterween

A real year is based on the Nov 1st - Oct 31st time line.  Easter weekend marks less then half way there.

It also boasts the second best holiday decorating tradition.

Protein-o-lanterns.

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery - ApriHop

Rustic grass grain & frosted citrus laced watermelon chalked with beta-carotene.

Chewy herbal honey spiced mango & crispy plum iced twined apple juice. 7%.

Apri-disiac.

Holy Kitten

Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA (CA) vs. Georgetown Brewing Company Lucille IPA (WA)

Post #200

Round 1: ABV
SN: 7.2%
GB: 7.2%
Draw

Round 2: APPEARANCE
SN: Amber coated copper with crisp bronze.
GB: Copper coated amber with dense brass.
Draw

Round 3: AROMA
SN:  Honey herb coated bread and spiced peach.
GB:  Prickling orange and sweet tropical tang.
10-9, GB

Round 4: TASTE
SN:  Dank dryness with caramel creamed citrus.
GB:  Balanced bitter with peppery pined pineapple.
10-9, GB

DECISION : Georgetown's Lucile IPA

I've lived in both states so no bias here.

Bear Down

What is best in life?  To crush Duke, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

           D. Williams brings it like R.L.M. (11/7/37 - 02/25/10)

HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY & RIP

                   I Am the Wargod (Ode to the Battle Kittens)


                      Bear Stanley III (01/19/35 - 03/13/11)

Lentil and Halibut Spring Rolls

Lentils, soy halibut, pickled peppers, tomato, cilantro, & e.c. salad.

Reno, NV

What happens in Reno...?

Aside from the terribly dry air I'm sure it's a fine place if I wasn't beholden to work and knew how to ski.

Great Basin Brewery's Cerveza Chilibeso and Risky Biscuit Barley Wine were excellent.

Eleventh Commandment - Support local craft beer.

Sierra Nevada - Hoptimum

I was reluctant of Sierra Nevada after reading of their opposition to CA's Prop. 19.  Thankfully, not everything on the internet is true.

Zesty booze and medicinal raveled hops liqueur.

A pine cone fight in the mouth before wrapping the tongue in panicles and being sealed in a thymol and lemon brine. 10.4%.

The only vote to cast is with your dollar.

Green Sauced

Tomatillos, shallots, avocado, cilantro, lime, jalapeño, green pepper, one splash cucumber & shallot vinaigrette, and 2 splashes Stone Brewing Co. IPA.

                      These are a few of my favorite greens

Happy Valentine's Dayze

Super Bore Sunday

So the Super Bowl is in Dallas, TX and Tim Brown was not a H.O.F. inductee?

However, a day spirited by debauchery always garners my support.

Slow roasted molasses charred pork & mushroom burritos with onion, garlic, jalapeno, and lime drenched guacamole.  Growler of Fremont Brewing's, deliciously creamed cocoa and crackling smoked hazelnut, MoPorter.

U.S. Christmas from historic & notorious Marion, NC deliver an hour plus of tunes to unwind your head and knot your perception.

Zone out into the space layered abyss of the whale belly.



1. In The Night
2. Wolf On Anareta
3. Fire Is Sleeping
4. Fonta Flora
5. Ephraim In The Stars
6. The Leonids
7. Suzerain
8. Maran
9. The Quena
10. Deep Green
11. Devil’s Flower In Mother Winter
12. Mirror Glass
13. The Moon In Flesh And Bone

Don Younger (07/11/41 - 01/31/11)

Lentil Spring Rolls

Back for more lentils and simplicity.  Everything chilled by the 42°F day.  Bundled up in spring rolls with black beans, bok choy, tomato, onion, cucumber, and carrot.