Decided to buy a domain and move everything to beerretard.com. The new blog is on Wordpress and it looks rough because I haven't taken the time to play with the CSS Editor. I'll work on it.

I might keep something on LJ for any non-beer thoughts I want to vomit out. I hope you'll bookmark the new location or subscribe to the feed. I plan on ( Read more... )

Happy New Year. As usual, I'm late with all the stuff I wanted to get up about 2008. To get things started here are five highlights of my year in beer:

1. Virgin homebrewing experience - Gotta admit it was big deal to brew my own beer. I may've been overly critical of the results, but it was a great experience and the beer was good enough to drink ( Read more... )

1. Brouwer's - Simple reason to go here often: they have the best overall beer selection in Seattle. They care about beer and you know you're never gonna get an off taste from a dirty line (a fresh line is used every time a new beer is tapped). Also, the food is (arguably) better than any other beer place in town. Plenty of good veggie options and ( Read more... )

At the beginning of the year, I made some Beer Resolutions for 2008. Let's see how I did:

Buy homebrew supplies and brew my own beer: Didn't get my own homebrewing setup, but I did brew an American Pale Ale with the West Sound Brewers on Big Brew day. I wasn't that excited about the results, but it was drinkable. It was fun and I'd like to brew ( Read more... )

Some would say I don't have any local beer pride. I'm pretty sure I've said that San Diego, Philadelphia and Portland are better beer-drinking destinations than Seattle. That's blasphemy to local beer enthusiasts, so I figured I'd better make amends by showing some love to the place where I live. In no specific order, here are my 5 Most Memorable ( Read more... )

The beer events just never stop. Here's what Seattle has this week (thanks to the commenters who helped me fill in the gaps in my original post):

12/15
Georgetown's Full Throttle Bottles is co-hosting a winter beer tasting with the BottleNeck Lounge tonight. $10 gets you four 4-ounce tastes plus a full pint. Beers served are: Anderson Valley ( Read more... )

I remember something on some blog somewhere a long time ago, where people answered 5 questions on Friday or wrote a list of 5 things. I can't remember exactly what it was. As a quick and easy thing to do, I thought I'd revive this Friday Five with a weekly list of beer-related stuff.

Today's list is Five Go-To IPAs. This year, I've come to terms ( Read more... )

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