The Stoic - Deschutes Brewery

The Stoic is a rye laced homage to the quad.

Spiced apple with ripened cranberry and cloven raisin cream.

Thin molasses coated banana with vinous and oaken peach bubbles. 11%.

Ate so many shrimp I got iodine poisoning.

Yawning Man - Rock Formations (2005)

Yawning Man is in my top 10 of the decade.

Instrumental music that makes your mind wipe out against a cosmic wave of mellowed haze.

1. Rock Formations
2. Perpetual Oyster
3. Stoney Lonesome
4. Split Tooth Thunder
5. Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway
6. Airport Boulevard
7. Advanced Darkness
8. She Scares Me
9. Crater Lake
10. Buffalo Chips 

Brains become blistered in a beach blanket blackjack of beered, bar-b-qued, and baked bliss.

Victorinox - Bantam

           Is there anything a knife or bottle opener can't do?

Happy Labor Day

Voo Doo is heaps of chocolate-coffee-coconut relics possessed with a pin prickle finish. 8.5%.

Howlin' Wolf is frothing lycanthropic hallowed blues and Gustav Holst is a civilized sci-fi soundtrack for the time travelled alchonaut.

San Clemente is where I discovered fish tacos, landed pier side kickflips, & celebrated the Millennium.

Won't You Take Me Back to Muhlenberg County

Lips Of Faith Kick - New Belgium Brewing + Elysian Brewery

NB+Elysian = Cranpumpkinberry.

Stabbing cinnamon cider with peppered green apples.

Chainsawing cherry tartness dulled in an oak cauldron of vanilla frosting, pumpkin marrow, and sunshine.

                              Lemon rind hay fire. 8.5%. 

       *On tap @ Elysian Tangletown 09/28/11.  One of the best pumpkin beers I've had.

Halloween Movie Round-Up 2011

A mortifying 2 month movie marathon of the macabre, maniacal, and maddening manifests! 2009, 2010. 

The Evil Dead (1981): 10/10
Big Trouble in Little China (1986): 10/10
The Return of Living Dead (1985): 10/10
The Fog (1980): 9.5/10
Madhouse (1974): 9/10
Mad Monster Party? (1967): 9/10
In the Mouth of Madness (1994): 9/10
The Comedy of Terrors (1963): 9/10
Waxwork (1988): 9/10
Poltergeist II (1986): 9/10
Trollhunter (201): 9/10
Phantasm II (1988): 8.5/10
Pinocchio's Revenge (1996): 8.5/10
Puppetmaster (1989): 8/10
Mulberry Street (2006): 8/10
Jason X (2001): 8/10
The Fat Albert Halloween Special (1977): 8/10
Santa's Slay (2005): 8/10

The Violent Kind (2010): 7.5/10
Blood River (2009): 7.5/10
Cropsey (2009): 7/10
Evil Ed (1995): 7/10
Parasomnia (2008): 7/10
The Perfect Host (2010): 7/10
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011): 7/10
Shredder (2003): 7/10
The Horde (2009): 7/10
The Walking Dead (2010): 6.5/10
The Ward (2010): 6.5/10
Death Machine (1994): 6.5/10
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010): 6.5/10
Office Killer (1997): 6/10
Chain Letter (2010): 6/10
Ripper (2001): 6/10
Red State (2011): 6/10
Mask Maker (2010): 5.5/10
Somebody Help Me 2 (2010): 5/10
A Severed Arm (1973): 5/10
Halloween: Resurrection (2002): 5/10
Fright Flick (2011): 5/10

Organic Pale Ale - Laurelwood Public House & Brewery

Laurelwood Brewing Company is Portland's 1st certified organic brewery.

Creamed Flowered hops with lightened grapefruit and honey shine. 5.1%.

You know who could use a bunch of beer? Sheriff Joe.

Happy National Knife Day

                                     Victorinox - Cadet

It's That Time of Year, Finally

The best time of year is upon us and the only way to kick it off properly is with the first of many Elysian Night Owl's.

Pumpkin pie with a burnt nutmeg crust.  Creamy ginger with a cinnamon coated hops finish.  5.9%.

Goatwhore from the second best gulf coast state, Louisiana, has Sammy from Acid Bath.

Their debut is a great start to the millennium with riffs by one of the best guitarists ever and vocals by one of the most underrated.

The clock is ticking, it's almost time.  1,698 hrs until Halloween.

 

Invert the Feline.

 RIP Nikon Camera From 2007.  Welcome New Fuji.

Theobroma - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (2011)

First tried this beer, in a foggy 12/26/10 celebration, courtesy of Matt.

Musky caramel with smoked vanilla honey.  Halloween-esque candy chilie corn & subtle earthy spice.  Fire roasted cocoa pods. 9%.

I can't appreciate molecular archeology.

Salmon + Small Stone, Part III of III

Lo Pan's, 2011, Salvador feels like riding shotgun in a Trans Am while doing doughnuts in a Stop-N-Go parking lot during a head knotted summer night.

Catchy, billowing, vaporous vocals & riffs.  Breaks 6.9 on the Richter Scales.

Mustard seed coated salmon baked and pan seared with asparagus, tomato, olive oil, and IPA with a side of cajun buttered corn.

Avery Brewing Company is one of my top non-WA breweries.

Their IPA is layered with citrus coated vanilla.  Juicy fruits punch your mouth and warm into buttery caramel. 6.5%.

It's all in the reflexes.

Homefront IPA - Fremont Brewing Company

Seattle's Mariners Chris Ray teamed up with Fremont Brewing to brew beer aged with bats donated by Louisville Slugger and with the goal of raising money for Operation Homefront.

Why hasn't ESPN picked up this story?

Tough to describe the awesomeness of an IPA soaked in maple baseball bats.

Burnt citrus with an almond finish. 6.25%.

Solid beer for an equally solid cause.  Stock up on these bottles while you can.

Cheers

In the Garden....

19.8%?

McGwire thrown under the bus, yet again. Jeff Bagwell not in on his first go.  MLB and the BBWAA suck.

                               Forearm curls please Crom.

Howe Sound Brewing Company - Three Beavers Imperial Red Ale

My first ever beer from our friendly neighbors to the north:  Howe Sound Inn & Brewing Company. 

Pumpkineater is my number one beer to try this coming fall and hopefully I see more their beers around these parts.

Plumped floral aromas spiced with heaps of pepper coated candies.  Malty sweetness with a touch of tangerine.  Drinks effortlessly. 7.5%.

Pardon the picture, my pupils are dilated.

Salmon + Small Stone, Part II of III

The Glasspack's 2002, Small Stone Recordings release, Powderkeg riding shotgun with blackened salmon.

This requires heavy spice & high heat cooking resulting in citrus haze, disorientation, and removing your smoke detector's battery.

Powderkeg is high octane rock perfect for cast iron exhaust.

Snoqualmie Falls Brewing Company Plant 1 Powerhouse IPA is a peppery orange tang and lemon bread sweetness.  Named for the world's first completely underground power plant.  7.5%.

Save Ghostwood from that dastardly Ben Horne.

Salmon + Small Stone, Part I of III

Small Stone Recordings is from Michigan and put out an array of awesome rock releases that go well with beer, summer, and salmon.

First off with a mushroom, cheddar, salmon omelette is Valis's Dark Matter.

Sounds like the bass player from one of the late 80's / early 90's best bands took a time machine back to the 70's and ate an omelette with those funny mushrooms.

Odin Brewing Company, like Valis, is from the fine state of WA.

A junipeppery red ale with a caramelized honey and nutty roast finish.  5.4%.

'New' Screaming Trees out on Aug. 2nd?

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.