East(er) coast newsflash

SNPA £1.18 in Tesco at the mo.

Portability.

We'll see if this reaches our shores...

AND! Hoptimum is back...Yum!

Life and Limb

The guys and gals at Corks of Cotham came through again. They got a total of six bottles of Life and Limb, a Sierra Nevada collaboration with Dogfish Head. Staff bought three of the bottles. I managed to get the final bottle. Expensive but should be good given the breweries involved.

I also got a few bottles of Ruthless Rye IPA. Sounds interesting.

Hey! Chico, watch it!

from the land beyond SNPA

Lucky enough to be in central Oregon at the moment. In addition to the nice lifestyle, good friends, excellent climate, awesome trails and stunning landscape it's also blessed with some truly outstanding beers.

We're in Bend - population 80000 - and it boasts 9 (nine) different breweries, most  of which have brewpubs too.

Wide selection of beers on offer, but favourites for me are the classic NW IPA styles. Deschutes are the local 800 pound gorilla and the Mirror Pond and Inversion have gone down a treat.

Favourite of the trip so far is Boneyard RPM IPA available at our local - Brother Jon's Public House. No brewpub, but  a visit to their tasting rooms sounds like a perfect Friday afternoon mission.

Excuse my potty mouth, but why the fuck aren't people brewing stuff like this in the UK?

And another thing, the three local supermarkets and even the local convenience store all carry local, quite local and not-so local craft beers in quantity in addition to the general purpose cooking lagers.

Summer. Beer on the beach.

Waitrose and beyond...

This is the deep south. Reduced Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in Waitrose. But really you want to get yourself over to a beer shop in Brighton, where the Sierra Nevada ain't reduced but is numerous. I've had Tumbler, Glissade and Torpedo. They are clever brewers.