Cos I'm TNT, I'm dyn-o-mite!

Howyagoing!? The Real MGD here, standing in for the PL on this momentous occasion: the TNT blog preceding the one year anniversary of the blessed event. As a lifetime member of CAMRA, I'm stoked that Tacoma has such a motivated group of publicans and Real Ale drinkers who dreamt this baby up and executed it.

While the taplist for the March TNT was a bit uninspiring, I showed up at the Park Way in the late afternoon with a full head of steam and decided that I'd make an effort to get around to all participating pubs this time around, come hell or Pissed LiBEERian.

The PW were their usual welcoming selves and I sipped a DFH Aprihop while awaiting the arrival of my better half who was working until 1800. Once joined up and fueled up, we headed off to The Red Hot to see what the Iron Horse Oak-Aged IPA was all about.

Photographic documentation of the PL's entrance led to the discovery of a stealthy interloper. I have no idea who or what this thing is, but am fairly certain that if the PL had seen it she would have soon been parts per million. My best guess is that the Cheshire Cat shagged a waterlogged Gremlin.

The atmosphere at TRH was pretty relaxed and the Iron Horse IPA was pretty reasonable while the Aprihop was a bit disappointing. DFH apparently have changed the formula this year and it’s not for the better IOHO. But we had things to meet and people to do, and the Cheshire Gremlin was still stalking the back of my mind, so we strolled down to Engine House No.9 for a pint of their Amarillo IPA on cask.

One whiff gave me the chills: butterscotch all the way, which is usually a bad sign in the nose of an IPA. Butterscotch or popcorn butter is a marker of infection or contamination and is to be avoided at all costs.

We quickly headed off to The Swiss, eager to put memories of ale confections behind us. The Swiss was its usual relaxed Monday night self and, as has been the pattern developing over the past year-plus, showing off some interesting ales in addition to the featured Hale’s Dry-Hopped Mongoose. As a bonus, we ran into my good mate and the guy I love to lock for, Jerry the Nomad Prop.

 Next stop was Doyle's and the Fullers was tasty but fairly routine at this point, especially after Swiss goodness.

  As all roads (in the world of the PL & myself) lead to Park Way, we finished off our night with a 2nd stop in.

SJ serving up pints from the Randall

TNT ='s 2 thumbs up from Justin

Dragging the PL away from the Park Way, never an easy task.

I mean seriously, can you blame her? Check out the taplist.

 
The announced brews for the 1^st anniversary of TNT, hit it up in your mouth hole tonight at 6p:

Red Hot - Everybody's Brewing Dry-Hop Country Boy IPA
Parkway - Everybody's Brewing Imperial IPA
Doyle's - Fullers ESB
Swiss - Pike Dry-Hop Double IPA
E9 - E-9 Imperial Bourbon Barrel Stout

Tap Night Tacoma, it's better than a punch in the junk.

kind of a big deal,

The Real MGD

(with permission of the pissed liBEERian)

Photography & Writing by The Real MGD
Reading, approving, laughing & thanking by The Pissed LiBEERian