weekend in review 02/20-02/21
after noticing that many of my weekend brew activities were too brief to merit an entire post, I decided to start a series of “weekends in review” where I comprise a rehash of last weekend’s beer events.
- saturday AP and I headed over to CB’s to check out his latest brew session (and new brew gadgets).
- CB was whipping up an all-grain IPA inspired by none other than my latest IPA. I had bottled one flip-top of the batch and after getting a whiff of the intense aroma and great balance CB was inspired 😉
- CB also got to show off his new therminator, as alluded to during his last batch I checked out. last time I checked, he got 10 gallons from a rolling boil to pitching temps in 10 minutes.
- sunday AP and I followed a hot tip to toronado, where DH and AF had scored pours of pliny the younger a day earlier.
- unfortunately, they were out of that grail beer (AP was told they should be tapping another keg of it today). my consolation prize was a pour of critical hit, a leftover festival barleywine from ninkasi that had a great balance and an intense bitter finish.
- after running some more errands, we stopped by handy deli, where I hooked up a couple bombers of sculpin IPA for $4.99 each. I told you this place was good!
- afterwards, AP and I scooped up CB and rolled over to the bevmo on geary, where we discovered a full stash of ninkasi beers (talk about coincidence).
- finally, tricerahops in CA! we grabbed that as well as oatis, their imperial stout, total domination, their IPA, and believer, their double red. I did a double take when the bombers rang up for $3.99-4.50!
Tags: believer, bevmo, critical hit, handy deli, ipa, ninkasi, oatis, pliny the younger, therminator, total domination, tricerahops
