This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Brian Devine and Maria Scarpello at The Roaming Pint. Their topic, rather appropriately, is an aspect of beer travel. They ask us to ponder and write about one or more of the following questions: So I ask you fellow bloggers and beer lovers, why is it important for…
What happens when you pile 15 beer bloggers into a stretch limo and haul them around San Diego for a beer tour? Exactly what you think would happen. One giant overloaded dose of beer geekerie coupled with one of the best ways to explore this fantastic beer scene. The 2014 Beer Bloggers Conference isn’t all…
What happens when you pile 15 beer bloggers into a limo and drive them around the San Diego brewing scene? We’re about to find out. Welcome to the Pre-2014 Beer Bloggers Conference. Held this year in San Diego, we traveled down a couple of days early to enjoy more of the City and some hard…
It was August 2011. We stepped off the tour bus at Goschie Farms south of Portland, OR, into a cloud of hop particles floating like crystals in the warm, bright, sunny evening air. The hop harvest had just begun and our timing could not have been better. It was a bath of hop aroma and…
For not being a trip focused on beer, we certainly did end up doing a fair job of checking out the San Diego beer scene during our warm weather visit in early March. So far, we’ve written about our “chain conundrum,” The Ritual Tavern, The Local Eatery & Drinking Hole, and The Neighborhood. In this…
The Local Eatery & Drinking Hole (1065 Fourth Ave. at the northern end of San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter) sits a few steps up the street from the Yard House and its 130 taps, yet provides a beer drinking experience miles away in a different direction. Where the Yard House caters to the professional, after work…
It took us a few days traveling around San Diego to get the scoop on where to find a few of the gems for great craft beer, but the rewards of persistence started to pay off. Thanks to a tip from the friendly, knowledgeable bartender at The Ritual, we made our way to The Neighborhood…
Our recent trip to sunny and warm San Diego was not a “beer trip,” but an escape from the long Montana winter we still haven’t been able to shake. (2″ of new snow on the ground Sunday morning and a 10 mile training run with snow falling – I still did the run in shorts…
I admit I have a thing for Starbucks. I like the burnt bite of espresso in my mocha. I frequent local coffee joints too. If they produce a similar deep, rich espresso bite, I’ll be a repeat customer. Where Starbucks excels is consistency. My favorite independent joints share this trait and add quality atmosphere to…