SCXBT09: San Diego Brewery Tour (with bus)

Had a wonderful day with you guys, including our new friends from New Jersey.

And also a big big thank you and goodbye to Dr. Bill at Stone. The bottle of Russian River Temptation you shared with us was amazing.

SCXBT09: The santa at Lost Abbey

Spent the day queing for some beers at Lost Abbey at met the Santa.

Seems like Santa is enjoying the kegs at Lost Abbey\Port!. Christmas in July, it can not be any where elese than San Diego.

SCXBT09: An other team picture…

From the Oceanside Brewing company. Its a Friday evening beer at brewery, what a nice treat.

Greetings from Hamilton….

We are in San Diego and having a great time.

Cheers…

/Mattias…

SCXBT 09 Beer List IV

(myself inside the bar at “Goat Hill Tavern”)

 

The list continues down to San Diego.

“2009-07-20 Pasadena and south”

“Lucky Baldwin”

116. Craftsman IPA

117. Craftsman Holiday Amber

“Heroes Bar & Grill”, Fullerton

118. Firehouse Pale Ale

119. Alaskan Amber

120. Big Sky Brewing Moose Drool Brown Ale

121. Stone Ruination

“Newport Beach Brewing Company”

122. A.A.I.P.A

123. Back Bay Bitter

“Goat Hill Tavern”, Newport Beach

124. Stone Pale Ale

125. Steelhead Pale Ale

126. Firerock Pale Ale

127. Deschutes Mirrorpond Pale Ale

128. Port Brewing Wipeout IPA

129. Stone Levitation Ale

130. Stone Oakes Bastard Ale

131. Longhammer IPA

132. Bear Republic Racer 5

133. Anderson Valley Summer Ale

134. Stone Ruination Ale

135. Rogue Hazelnut & Brown

136. Anderson Valley IPA

137. Stone Arrogant Bastard

138. Widmer Drifter Pale Ale

139. Bigfoot

140. Anderson Valley Boon Amber Ale

Continued…

SCXBT 09: Greetings….

Collected team pictures from our beer trip to south california.

“Newport Beach Brewing Company”

“Lost Abbey\Port Brewing visit” (Picture taken by Mike the head brewer.

Cheers

Mattias

SCXBT 09 Beer List III

After our tour at FireStone the beer list have continued and hopefully reported as correct as possible.

2009-07-17 Santa Barbara & South:

- Visit to Telegraph Brewery, no sampler but bought 2 bottles from this tiny brewery, nice people and a great brewery.

“The Brewhouse”, Santa Barbara

61. Nirvana Pale

62. Anapamu Amber Ale

63. West Beach IPA

64. Montecito St. Wheat

65.  Buster Brown Ale

66. Smoked Porter

“Island Brewing Company#

67. Island Pale Ale

68. Unfiltered Pale Ale

69. Starry Night Stout

70. Jubilee Ale

“Anacapa Brewing Company, Ventura”:

71. New Belgium Summer Wheat

72. Stone IPA

“The 3rd Stop, West Hollywood, LA”

73. Stone Arrogant Bastard

74. Kona Fire Rock Pale Ale

75. Deschutes Mirror Pond Ale

76. Flying Dog Doggie Style Pale Ale

77. Flying Dog Gonzo

78. Allagash White

79. Lost Coast Nut Brown Ale

2009-07-18 Santa Monica:

“Fathers Office”

80 Craftsman's Hefeweissen

81. Drakes 1500 Pale Ale

82 OB Old Chub

83. Russian River Perdition

84. Russian River Damnation

85. Russian River Pliny The Elder

“Daily Pint” (A great place!)

86. Moylans Dragoons Stout

87. Stone Sublimity (cask)

88. Deans Brothers Brewing (IPA 7) Pale Ale (cask)

“The Bruery” !!!!! Great place, Jorgen should get this brewery to Sweden.

89. Orcha White

90. Black Orchad

91. Saison Rue

92. Trade Winds Triple

93. White Oak

94. Papier

95. Black Tuesday

2009-07-19 Santa Clarita:

“Wolfcreek Brewing”

96. Hot rod India Pale Ale

97. Howlin Hefeweissen

98. Valencia Honey Wheat

99. Green Flash West Coast IPA

100. Timber Wolf Bourbon Oaked Red

101. Alaskan Summer Ale

“Oggis, Santa Clarita”¨

102. Black Magic Stout

103. Torry Pines IPA

104. Sunset Amber

105. Paradise Pale

“Belmont Brewing Company, Long Beach”

106. Pale Ale

107. North Coast Scrimshaw

108. Marathon

109. Hop head read

110. Stout Crude

“Beachwood BBQ, Seal beach”:

110. Alesmith IPA

111. Russian River Blind Pig

112. Craftsmans Oyster Stout (cask)

113. Deschutes Black Butte XXI (insane)

114. Russian River Blind Pig

115. OB Dales Pale Ale

……

SCXBT 09 Beer List II

 

The beer draught list of SCXBT09 continues with the following result:

2009-07-15 Day trip to Oakland & Hayward, CA:

Ben & Nicks, Oakland

38. Bear Republic Red Rocker Ale

39. Steelhead Extra Pale

40. Stone Arrogant  Bastard

Catos Ale House, Oakland:

41. North Coast Red Seal Ale

The Bistro, Hayward:

42. Bear Republic Lundys Mild (yes, finally a decent US version of Mild)

43. Maui Brewing Co. Big Swell IPA (can)

Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, half moon bay:

44. Pillar Point Pale Ale (cask)

45. Princeton-by-sea-IPA

Seabright Brewery, Santa Cruz:

46. Pelican Pale

47. Blur IPA

48. Sacrilicious Red Ale

49. Oatmeal Stout

2009-07-16 From Santa Cruz & Buellton:

Lucia Lodge & Res.

50. Anchor Steam (bottle)

Firestone Walker Brewery:

51. Pale 31

52. DBA

53. Union Jack

54. Robust Porter

55. Honey Blond

56. Red Nectar

Spikes, San Luis Obispo:

57. Green Flash Imperial IPA

Taproom at Firestone Walker Brewing Co:

58. Hamp Ale (brown ale)

59. IPA (Union jack)

60. Double Jacks

To be continued…

SCXBT 09 Beer List I

This is the sampled beers so far…

Rogue Ale House:

1. Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA

1. FireStone Walker Pale Ale

2. Marin Brewing Co. IPA

3. Rogue Shakespear Stout (Nitro)

San Francisco Brewing Company:

5. Grampians Porter

6. SF Pale Ale

7. Pony Express Ale

8. Albatross Lager

9. Shangha(I PA)

“Thirsty Bear”

10. Howard Street IPA

11. ESB

12. Golden Vanilla

13. Valencia Wheat

“21st. Amendment:”

14. Brew Free! or Die IPA

15. Bitter American

“Zeitgeist:”

16. Stone Pale Ale

17 Moonlight Death & Taxes Porter

“Toronado:”

18. Russian River Blind Pig

19. Russian Pliny The Elder

20. Fire Stone Walker Pale 31 (On Cask)

21. Marin Brew IPA (On Cask)

“Magnolia:”

22. Moonlight Bombay By Boat IPA

(Speakeasy Double Daddy IPA (bottle)

Toronado:

24. Russian River Blind Pig IPA

25. Lagunitas New Dog Town Pale Ale

26. Russian River Publication

27. Port Brewing 3rd Ann.

28. Iron Springs Casey Jones Double IPA

29.  Anchor Steam

“Beach Chalet:”

30. West End Wheat Beer

31. Presidio IPA

32. …. Pale Ale

“Rogue Ale House:”

33. Lagunitas IPA

34. Elysian ESB

35. Rogue Russian Imperial Stout

36. Rogue Imperial Porter

37. Maharadja Double IPA

….

To be continued…

SCXBT 09 REPORT I

We have now started our beer trip to south California (everything south of San Francisco). As usual I have a bit of problem to get in contact with the internet during our US-trip, so a direct report is not possible. Regardless we have started out and is currently still trying out everything San Francisco is about regarding US craft beer. San Francisco is a safe harbor for great craft beer and we are really enjoying the days here in the city.

I promise to try write as much as possible during the trip, so that you all get a report, or actually mostly because I need a personal reminder where we went.

(Stefan and myself at Toronado, San Fran)

For your information “SCXBT09” stands for “South California Extreme Beer Tour 2009”. It started out in San Francisco on July 11 and will continue with the following locations;

1. San Francisco

2. Santa Cruz

3. Buellton

4. San Luis Obispo

5. Santa Barbara

6. West Hollywood

7. Costa Mesa

8. Escondido\Carlsbad

9. San Diego

 

Hopefully I will get a more structured reporting quite soon, but it is a bit difficult to get it written down after all the great beers, :-). So far at least my personal favorite is Russian River Blind Pig IPA as usual.

(Interior from Toronado)

A new live writer

Testing live writer again for the start of the SCXBT09 (South California Extreme Beer Tour 2009).

Lets at a picture here.