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

I don't like no Week sauce on my wings!

Sho shorry guys, starting the weekly events on a Tuesday... epic failure on my part. However, if you didn't already know that the awesomest thing going on for Monday was Tap Night Tacoma; you may have other issues...

Here's what's coming up for 12/14 thru 12/19...

Tuesday 12/14: 7 Seas Brewing 'Santa's Smokin' Holiday Winter Warmer' Release Party @ CROWNBAR in Tacoma. There will be other 7 Seas beers available, holiday giveaways (SWAG!!!) and jolly Santa himself. 6p-9p (although Mike Runion from 7 Seas said he'd be there all night!)

Wednesday 12/15: Give a Pint, Get a Pint hosted by Cascade Regional Blood Services @ The Hub in Tacoma. 12:30-2:30p Give some blood and get a coupon for a free brew (I'll even throw in some good karma for ya...)

Thursday 12/16: Dogfish Head Beer Night @ the Parkway Tavern in Tacoma. 6-9p and cross your fingers that they'll have the Bitches Brew on tap... I'll be there (hopefully with an entourage of ale minions) giving away some of my personally made DFHead swag, in the small profound way in which I do things. :)  
AND Help fill the glass boot ALL WEEK at The Red Hot for United Way of Pierce County's Season of Caring. They're donating $1 from every pint.

Saturday 12/18: Christmas Beer & Cookie tasting @ 99 Bottles in Federal Way. 10a-12p. $2.50 for some beer and cookies... it's either going to be fabulous or disgusting. Either way, I'm glad they are doing it!

Sunday 12/19: Not sure what everyone ELSE is doing this day but here are my ale related plans:

12-3p... I'll be doing a Sensory Beer tasting at an up and coming (hopefully soon to be open!) Tacoma brewery; Wingman Brewers Brewery. This entails: Spiking beer with various flavors in order to learn how to identify off flavors in beer. (I'm takin' my knowledge n' shit to a whole new level!) After this sensory tasting we will have a more informal tasting using BJCP scoring for fun and practice.

4p and on... Another fabulous Literature & Libations meet up. This time we'll be chillin' at the Powerhouse Brewery in Puyallup. A quick note on what L&L even is: "We are the lazy man's book club. We don't read the same book at a time; we probably won't discuss the books we are reading; however, there is a good chance we will chat and drink and read and be very happy doing all of it at the same time."
Feel free to come out if you are interested in joining the fun, everyone is welcome if they don't suck! Ie. No Jerks. Stolen from The Red Hot.

If you are not invited to or attending any of these Sunday events, you could always hit up a 253 local for some football and beer. The Harmon Tap Room has football, pinball, good food, pool and WTF Sundays! where your entire bill (including beer!) is half off.

Have a good one!

the pissed liBEERian

Full Sail Night @ Parkway Tavern. Now in possession of a joint custody Session Beanie!

Clear your schedules and get your drinking arm ready to go!

Take a peek at some of the fun events coming up for November, what the what?! I believe I'm going to have to clone myself another pissed liBEERian or get my minions to attend events on my behalf. There is just no way I can do it all!

I don't appreciate being teased with  pics of DFHead 90m IPA laciness that is on tap all the way in San Antonio. But even I can't argue that it's gorgeous.

Ta Da... Novembeer!

11/2 - Style Night featuring Fresh Hop Ales @ 99 Bottles, Federal Way 5-7:30p
11/4 - Tacoma Science Cafe @ Harmon Brewery, Tacoma 7p
11/4 thru 11/6 - Cask-O-Rama @ Beveridge Place Pub, Seattle 6p-12a
11/8 - Tap Night Tacoma #6, Tacoma 6-9p
11/11 - Walking Man Brewers dinner @ The Eastburn, Portland 6-9:30p
11/12 thru 11/4 - Hoping to fit in a pre-birfday jaunt down to PDX during this weekend for a Big Daddy Kane brewery crawl, Portland (Stay tuned! I will be blogging about the detailed, mapped out, Google created itinerary of this plan sometime next week...)
11/13 - Beer Trek 2010 @ Phinney Center, Seattle 7-10p
11/15 - Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Party @ Brouwer's Cafe, Fremont 5p
11/17 - The pissed liBEERian celebrates her 29th birthday! (I accept spankings in lieu of gifts)
11/17 thru 11/21 - Walking Man 10th Anniversary celebratory goodness @ Walking Man Brewing, Stevenson
11/18 thru 11/23 - Jetting off to New York for 5 fun (& ale) filled days with MGD. I am super stoked to hit up some east coast craft brew. Ithaca Flower Power and Iona (hailed as Brooklyn's Irish pub for those who aren't a fan of Irish pubs), you are 1st on my list.
11/24 - Honey, the Parkway Ruined Thanksgiving @ Parkway Tavern, Tacoma 5p (Hahahaha, I love the name! I don't care how jet lagged I am from flying in from NY the night before. I also don't care how energy deprived the mandatory All Staff conference leaves me the next morning, I am going to this event and dragging everyone I can with me.)

Hope you can make it out for a few of these events and support local craft beer, I know I'm going to do my darnedest. 

The pissed liBEERian

My Questitude

pissed = drunk (not mad)
liBEERian = me

I have noticed a theme developing in my life over the last 2+ mths or so. The search for delicious ales, delivered to me either in full pint form or 4oz tasting glass, has officially BEGUN. I think Brewer's Fest 2010 officially started my slight obsession. Some people critique food, some people breakdown vino & it's many elements. For others... there is beer.

I started drinking beer about 6yrs ago. Started LIKING beer around 3-4yrs ago. All of my male friends and brother have a pretty diverse palate when it comes to ale and I was starting to feel a little left out, possibly uncool. So I made myself try new things (new @ that time =ed anything that wasn't Corona w/ lime wedge) and failed miserably. Beer was purdy gross. I resigned myself to loving the oh so palatable Blue Moon & the occasional Mac & Jacks Serengeti Wheat. Don't get me wrong, I still enjoy both but my mind and mouth crave more. Sigh... what's new?

Beer exploration took an abrupt halt when I stopped most of my drinking (vino and mixed drinks consumed rarely, beer never) to pursue fitness and weight loss for a stint of 6mths. Still keeping fit and active but have slowly added tasty ales back into my diet. Stoked to hear this today, true or not: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3079028/Beer-can-help-you-get-slim.html.

Now that I have a few beer related festivals (along with the drunken bruises and fantastically fuzzy memories to prove it) under my belt, I have been fervently pursuing info from breweries around the nation, as well as local pubs for specific brews. The beer that got me started on such madness is Schooner Exact Brewing Co.'s Seamstress Union, a raspberry wheat ale. I had it for the 1st time at Brewer's Fest 2010, handed over my little wooden chip not knowing the magnitude of what was about to hit my mouth. I then proceeded to spend many more chips (my own and my date's) at their corner tent location. 4oz a pop is not enough to get my fill!

I spent the following weeks harassing the brewers @ Schooner Exact (who were kind enough to load me with info on the beer and where they had most recently delivered kegs in Tacoma) along with local pubs to find out where and when it was going on tap. Finally found it @ 1022 South in downtown Tacoma. Walking from work to my car @ 9p, I phoned Chris at 1022 to inquire on SU and I think he was as excited as I was over the ale "come on down!! we have it right here for ya". Met my partner in crime, Cole, for a pint. It was a mutual consensus that it was a) amazing and b) just as good if not better than we remembered. I felt fairly relieved that I hadn't built it's amazingness up in my head. Even though I will submit, I am fairly enamored with Seamstress Union. NOTE TO SCHOONER EXACT... take it off seasonal, make it year round!! Still planning on marching my charms down to the SE tasting room in Seattle to talk them into this.

Some of us require Seamstress Union year round. I was told specifically "I don't want to be around you when SU isn't available any longer". Hahahaha, enuff said. ;)

Ale related goals and the Essential point of this BuhLog:
-not planning on writing such a novel every time, this is just a small peak for you into my plight. Straight to business from here on out.
-review beers I've tried
-review pubs & breweries where I have sought out these libations (current fave: Parkway Tavern)
-find cool suppliers of eclectic bottled brew (current best a tie between 99 Bottles and Whole Foods)
-report on the many random occurrences that tend to happen while consuming the good brew (free age related beer & leaving SIB w/ 2x as many glasses as we started with)
-learn to love IPA (it is a type of brew that seems to have the most variety available and the coolest names, I think I can make it happen. I am single minded to a fault when there is something I want.)

See ya on the other side...
pissed liBEERian
aka Tracy
aka 5 Thousand other aliases