Peninsula pub crawl & other dreams that came true...

MGD and I enjoyed our sunny Saturday by driving around the peninsula and visiting a few breweries. Our morning began at Der Blokken Brewery in Bremerton for a delicious brunch paired with their beers. The flagship Black Stout was excellent! As we headed on to Silver City Brewery, we passed through Tracyton. Feel free to keep any and all fat jokes to yourself. Had to take a few pictures of me standing next to signs and the Tracyton Public House, of course.

Chatted up some peeps at Silver City and had a variety of beers before heading to the 7 Seas Tasting Room in Gig Harbor for their Growler Release and the opening of their beer garden. Kept warm by the outdoor fires (next time I'm bringing s'mores gear) & life sized Jenga while sippin' on some proper pints and hanging out with the fun folks that embody 7 Seas Brewing. You guys give me heart bubbles, all of you. I think you are awesome with a capital 7. Will do a more detail oriented blog on the evening once we get our pics developed in the dark room.

Headed home with my new hoodie & MGD's new growler for an early-ish evening. Put on the 'Invention of Lying' and proceeded to drool all over MGD as I passed out from way too much fun.

Was chilling in Seattle while writing this and recalling events from the evening as I waited for MGD to finish playing rugby so we can see where the day would take us. My vote is on anywhere that will allow me to take a nap. I'm still chuckling over something Travis Guterson (co-owner and head brewer of 7 Seas) said to me at the 7 Seas party as he left our Wheelchair Barleywine (which I really like and was defending to some dude who didn't 'get' it) conversation and the fire we lovingly tended for him:

Travis: The pissed liBEERian is in the HOUSE!!! If the pissed liBEERian thinks it's good, it's at least half decent.
Me: (left pondering if that was actually a compliment, MGD confirmed that it was) 

blogging while daydreaming of seas numbering seven,

the pissed liBEERian

Photography & Editing Credits to The Real MGD

Park it right there mister!

It's been a hot minute since I enjoyed a pint at the Parkway Tavern, so there was very little arm twisting involved in getting me to stop by last night. To my shock and awe, it happened to be Double IPA night. 2nd day of the 2nd month... why WOULDN'T it be Double IPA night @ Parkway? Oh, that's right... because nobody told me therefore it shall not exist! Parkway, can I come have some of your awesome tomato/gorgonzola/basil soup next time you bust it out and handle all of your event PR? Seriously guys... cereal.

What was meant to be one pint (Russian River Damnation, woot!), turned into dos (2010 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Barley Wine), which also included a free schooner from bartender Nick (Hair of the Dog) as well as another schooner poured by the owners of Bremerton's Der Blokken Brewery (Sacred Hop Double IPA).

Which is all fine and dandy but it kinda created some overflow into the rest of my evening when I started off wanting to just have one pint and a few laughs with a friend. Oh well... had some new beers and hung out with friends old and new. Plus I got the skinny on some upcoming Parkway events that are Sharpie worthy in the Calender O' the Pissed LiBEERian. Check it out:

2/14 - Tap Night Tacoma (Parkway will have the Big Al Hop Villain Black IPA)

& also on 2/14 (Valentine's Day for you knuckleheads who don't know)...

2/14 - Parkway will have a slough of chocolate beers

2/16 - New Belgium Brewer's Night

3/2 - Silver City Brewer's Night

3/29 - Ninkasi Brewer's Night

And according to the taps under the 'Next On Tap' sign, we'll be seeing some Big Al's Winter Warmer osoon, plus something about the Younger coming... Ohhhhhhhh.

needing someone to warm up my winter...

the pissed liBEERian

Photo Credits to MGD & myself