http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog Musings from the BS Brewing Brew Crew Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:45:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In February Dave and I were invited by Travel Lane County to Eugene and Springfield to meet with local brewers and sample many great beers coming out of the area. After a night at the KLCC Microbrew Fest and some sampling of the local bar scene, we started our ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2010/03/beer-tours-breweries-and-brew-pubs-in-eugene/ All these beer reviews lately, you'd think this blog was about ... beer. Au contraire, my friends (French for "nuh uh"). If you'll point your attention to the navigation over there on the right side of this page, you'll note a mysterious, delicious category called "Meat Stunts." That's where you'll ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2010/02/porky-the-pork-pig-in-a-bacon-blanket/ Several accomplished beer writers (John Foyston, Lisa Morrison and Abram Goldman-Armstrong), bloggers (Portland Beer) and somehow BS Brewing were invited by Travel Oregon and Travel Lane County to visit Eugene for the KLCC Microbrew Festival and spend Zwickelmania with local brewers. I give this fest high marks, more than ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2010/02/klcc-microbrew-festival-in-eugene/ It’s great to have a beer blog and an excuse to drink beer, but I guess we should actually add some content more than once a month. A couple of weeks ago, the fine folks at Widmer invited us over for dinner to celebrate the release of W’10 Pitch ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2010/02/dinner-with-the-widmer-brewers/ A good way to develop your taste in beer is to keep drinking and try new beers. Yet, you should make sure you're getting everything you paid (or brewed) for. The temperature of the beer and the glass can have a large impact in the amount of flavor exposed to ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2010/01/would-a-warm-beer-sign-make-you-stop-in/ We made another trip out to Montana and Idaho for the holidays, drinking our way along. One of these years, we're going to have to stop in Spokane, but this year we hit Wallace, ID, and Bozeman and Belgrade, MT, again. (pictures coming soon -- hopefully) Wallace Brewing During 2008’s snOMG (or Snowpocalypse), ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2010/01/montana-and-idaho-breweries-over-the-mountains-and-to-the-beer/ Hey, Portland audiophiles! I'm going to be on Lisa Morrison's radio show this afternoon talking about the 33 Beers books. The show, "Beer O'Clock" airs on KXL 750 (AM) from 3-4 PM every Saturday. If you're not within radio distance of PDX and would like to hear what I sound ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2009/12/33-beers-on-the-radio-today/ Ah, Holiday Ale Fest, how we love thee... I suppose it's fitting that I'm the BS blogger who ended up writing this review, since I'm probably the one with the strongest predilection towards big, and often dark, beers. As a lover of stouts, porters, barleywines, and the venerable "winter warmers," ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2009/12/holiday-ale-fest-2009/ We've been to a lot of beer festivals. A LOT of beer festivals. Mostly in Oregon, but earlier this year we made our way down to San Francisco Beer Week, and took on the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this fall (photo below). I'd like to say that the ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2009/11/33-beers-a-beer-notebook/ While surveying the internet for kegerator-making instructions, I fell upon a now-lost (to me) web page that described an unusual process for saving some money in the brewing process by saving, then re-using yeast from previous batches. At $8/smack pack, this seems like a good way to save some coin ... http://www.bsbrewing.com/blog/2009/10/re-using-yeast/