Seattle Beer Week is knocking at your door. Will you answer?

Seattle Beer Week starts NOW! Like... 5 minutes ago.

Thursday, May 19th until Saturday, May 29th. 

There are loads of events to partake in, all of which can be found here. I've listed the ones that caught my eye. Get out there and have some fun in the name of Seattle and in the name of good beer!

Thursday May 19th

• Maritime Pacific Brewery (5:30-7p) - Celebrate the Official Kick Off (#1) of Seattle Beer Week with the first tapping of the official 2011 beer week beer, brewed by Maritime Pacific. Kick Off Party #2 rolls into Brouwer's (7-8p), Kick Off #3 at Pyramid (8-9p) then Kick Off #4 at Naked City (9-11:45p). You can do it!
• Uber Tavern (4p til close) - 2010 Dogfish Head World Wide Stout & 120min IPA on tap. No joke. (Not an official SBW event, but it's happening.)
• Beveridge Place Pub (6-11:45p) - Cask-O-Rama! All Seattle beers, all cask conditioned, check!

Friday May 20th

• Hopvine, Fiddler's Inn & Latona Pub (5-11p) - Attend the video release of The Fine Art of Beer Making and collaborative beer release, at one of these fine establishments.
• Full Tilt Ice Cream (6-8p) - Pike flavored ice creams and FLOATS!!!! Hosted by Laura Stoudt.
• Brave Horse Tavern (6-8p) - Check out this awesome new location for Silver City Night! Good times and prizes!

Saturday May 21st

• 99 Bottles (10a-12p) - Beer & D'Oh-Nuts tasting. $3 for a fresh donut from The Donut & Muffin Factory; paired with an orange wheat, espresso stout and bacon beer. Why. Am. I. Stuck. At. Work. During. This. Time?
• Pike Brewing Company (11a-8p) - Tour de Pints III (click here for route) Annual bike-ride-pub-crawl, Bike + Beer = Win! Again: Why. Am. I. Stuck. At. Work. During. This. Time? 
• if you don't bike...
• Pyramid Brewery (12-5p) - Hop On! Bus/Pub Crawl. $30, must book in advance. Details here.
• Jillian's Billiards (5-9p) - Get Twisted. Think beer specials and a huge-normous inflatable Twister board resulting in prizes for you...
• Leary Traveler (7-10p) - Classic Beers for Classy Ladies. Beer and networking for a great cause this evening, Washington Women In Need. $25, space is limited. Info and tickets here.

 Sunday May 22nd

• Duck Island Ale House (4-9p) - Fire & Ice.  Chili & lagers! (they have pinball too, just sayin')
• Beveridge Place Pub (5-8p) - Iron Brewer Triple Header! BPP picked the ingredients, they brewed the beer, you pick the winner. Japanese themed ingredients this year, portion of proceeds go to earthquake relief organizations.

I have deemed the previous events AWESOME & NOTEWORTHY in my world. You can find additional info on them and many more happenings, by clicking right freaking here.

No, I didn't get lazy and end the info at Sunday. Just not sure if you can handle much more awesomeness than this right now... Will pick & choose & tell you where you need to be at for the remainder of Seattle Beer Week, so stay tuned for a similar blog post later this weekend.

just get out there and love on some local beer in the 206!

the pissed liBEERian

MayHappenStances

I'd just like to say a big fat "Thank You" (also known as Suck It) to the Blogger site for having a random crash last week which erased all of my work in progress that was supposed to be a May Events posting. It was going to come out later than I wanted it to no matter what, but I did my total bestest to make the last 1/2 of May seem super eventful and exciting. This is what you get instead:

Monday 16th thru Sunday 22nd - American Craft Beer Week. Celebrate it. Organized events going on all over, CraftBeer.com is a great promoter and resource of this celebration.

Thursday 18th thru Sunday 29th - Seattle Beer Week. Title is mostly self explanatory but same deal. Celebrate it. Click here for a list of events. According to my oh-so-accurate-insight-into-all-things-beer-event-related... it's gonna be off the hook.

In both celebratory cases, I am going to try and participate in a multitude of ways. I'm a whore for themes. They make everything more fun. National Sea Monkey Day (5/16) resulted in an hour of important research during my day, for example. Note: Please don't attempt to dispute the authenticity of this event, it just IS. Mmmkay?! Kay.

I don't have the energy or the time to recreate all the events I listed but feel free to check back here, because I'll probably add some things at a later date. There ARE 15 fun filled days left in May! Random things worth checking out:

Tuesday 17th - Airways Brewing Night @ Tides Tavern (6-9p, Gig Harbor) They'll be serving their Triple Chocolate Stout, Sky Hag IPA, First Class IPA & T-Tail Blonde. The whole lovely gang (as I know it to be anyways) will be there to serve up some brews along with schwag. Sunshine optional.

Thursday 19th - 2010 Dogfish Head World Wide Stout and 120 Minute IPA will be on tap at a location in Seattle. I'm not sure I want to reveal where yet, in case it effects my chance to get some... Maybe if enough people bug me (who aren't willing to do the research themselves) I'll decide to disclose the location. (EDIT: Okay... it'll be pouring at UBER Tavern starting at 4p. I can't go now, so you might as well.)

Sunday 22nd - Iron Brewer Competition at Beveridge Place Pub (5-8p, Seattle) BPP chooses the ingredients, they brew the beer. This year will feature Elliott Bay vs. Georgetown, Fremont vs. Two Beers, & Big Al vs. Black Raven. Ingredients include: cucumber, wasabi, cedar, sesame, plum & yuzu.

Permanent - 2 extra taps @ The Red Hot. (Anytime, Tacoma) Dropped the ball on several events that Chris emailed me about. You know, events that I specifically asked him to keep me in the know on so I could add it to a blog like this. Which he did and I didn't. They had 13 taps, now they have 15. It's worth knowing & now you do.

yes please, May I have another?

the pissed liBEERian

You may have noticed that I rarely post pictures of myself that don't look good/flattering. Tonight I will make an exception but not without explanation.

I hate this picture of myself. I'm wearing my 'not amused' face.

However, it's a cutesy couple picture & it kind of makes me miss (outta town for uber long time) MGD even more.

Plus the 'not amused' look works well with my feelings toward Blogger at the moment.

Photography courtesy of Basil

And they call it the day of rest!

An involved discussion took place yesterday between MGD and I. We decided that Sundays are AWESOME and totally our most favoritest day eva. We have been doing the same thing every Sunday for the last few months and took the opportunity to reflect on that last evening. (FYI, this blog was written LAST week and I'm finally getting around to fine tuning it the Sunday after. Go me and all my efficiency!)

If the 4 days prior to Sunday are taken into account, I’m not really sure where we found the energy for what our Sunday ended up entailing. On Wednesday I hit up Lah-goon-eet-uz night @ the Red Hot after work and was in store for a sleepless night because of some damn mouse in our house.  Ended up at MGD’s late Thursday because I couldn’t deal with another vermin caused evening of insomnia and pull off NYE the next day. On Friday I did NYE party stuff all day, partied my little heart out and didn’t go to bed until 5:55a on January 1^st.

Saturday more or less didn’t exist, unless you take into account the bedsores on my body from spending as much time as possible hiding under the covers. Got up with our house guests for a quick bite to eat before they went on their merry way then went straight back to bed. I vaguely remember being in bed alone & realizing MGD was still downstairs. Trotted on down and sat in a chair and stared at him until he noticed and said “I thought you were sleeping and didn’t want to bother you.” I relayed that I was trying to sleep but was lonely (because who doesn’t crave company while they are unconscious?) so he obliged and hopped back in the sack where he proceeded to snooze for hours and I laid there listening to him breathe.

'Twas decided that we had to obtain sustenance at some point and I was dismayed that I had to put on pants and go to the store for PL friendly food. There was about 30m of internal debate while trying to drown my hunger in Coke Zero. Pants wearing it is, followed by the longest visit to Safeway EVER. So essentially we slept, read, watched movies and ate all day in true recovery mode.

Cue Sunday, TA DA!!! Wake up early-ish to head towards the 206 where MGD throws down some rugby goodness and I try to get some work done for a couple of hours. Then commences the “What do you want to do?” & “I don’t know, what do YOU want to do?” followed by “There’s a few places left in Seattle we haven’t tried…” which led to the following itinerary. 

-Rugby for MGD, 3^rd Place Books café for me (coffee + wifi = an alarming amount of productivity)

-In search of Skins/Giants game yet also requiring good beer leads to a problematic situation. We tried Pies & Pints, Iron Bull and then finally Murphy’s; where we sucked it up and live streamed the game through my ‘puter.

-On to Bottleworks (just a few blocks down from Murphy’s) where we looked around a bit and had a Liefmans Kriek & a Deschutes Hop Henge.

-As all roads that lead to Bottleworks will take you directly to Brouwer’s Café, it was the next natural pit stop. Plopped down into our favorite spot (leather couches tucked into a risen corner stage) and watched the rest of the Seahawks game. Yummy things to hit our mouths were a Dirty Ho, a Russian River Supplication, and some Hair of the Dog Adam & washed down with a bowl of cauliflower gratin and we were ready to go to…

-Duck Island. Well, not quite yet. I merely asked the name of the place where we played pinball a few weeks ago and MGD took that as a “next stop, here we come!”

We parked a few blocks away and hoofed it down the block in the bitterasscoldnipplyweather. After 30 feet (uphill both ways, in the snow, minus shoes), we ducked into Uber Tavern to warm up.. Score! This place was absolutely fabulous with their pretty fire rocks (which I wasn’t allowed to play with), their big pink Delirium Tremens elephant tap (which I also wasn’t allowed to play with) and rockin’ bottle selection (which I was allowed to play with). Ie a Russian River Supplication for $19!! Whoa, shoulda checked that price out first. Obviously I can’t play without strict supervision.

In the future we will definitely want to spend some more time @ Uber Tavern, that place was pretty bomb. Finally got our act together enough to bear the cold and ran down to Duck Island. Got some brews and quarters and thoroughly dominated the pinball machines. Well, AFTER I dug through a coffee can of old bottle caps to find more of the Session Lager rock/paper/scissors variety (which I totally did!).  Collection: Beyond Complete.

Drove home around midnight, watched a movie, fillintheblankwithyourdirtyminds, and went to sleep. We have finally figured out the perfect formula to our wonderful Sunday adventures. Sunshine (not necessary but ideal), sports, productivity, pubs & us. 

To rest, or be heathens?

heathenishly yours,

the pissed liBEERian