Sips on the Road: Beer Thirty, Part Two



Make your selection Saints and Sinners

Located in an industrial park in San Marcos, CA Port Brewing and Lost Abbey would literally be lost in the mix of concrete buildings if not for the massive crowd extending from the brewery out to the food truck and the ID checker waiting for the tour buses that roll up to the entrance during the day.   Lost Abbey’s tag line “Inspired Beer for Saints and Sinners alike” only adds to the intrigue of the various brews they keep bottled on site and in stores.  With beer names like Devotion, Inferno and Judgment Day you just might be choosing a side; sinner or saint.

Upcoming Event: 2013 Seattle Wine & Food Experience - 2/24/13 - Seattle Center Exhibition Hall

 

Much like a fine wine, the Seattle Wine & Food Experience (@SeattleWineFood) gets even better with age. Each vintage of the event gets better every year, as if event producer Jamie Peha (@tabletalkpeha) of Peha Promotions strives to out-do herself year after year. This will be my 4^th visit to the SWFE and I am just as excited for this year as I have been for previous years. This year the SWFE will be held on February 24^th, 2013 from 12-5pm at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall (its home for the past several years). The 5^th annual SWFE will feature more than 100 wineries from around the globe plus local foods, beer, cider and craft spirits.

Upcoming Events - February & March, 2013

As the rain becomes relentless and the New Year’s resolutions start to fade out, we find ourselves giddy with excitement at the late winter and spring line-up of Washington Wine Events. Every year in February and March some of the best events of the year occur and I thought I’d put together a list of some of those so you can mark your calendars now. Here are some wine events coming up over the next few months to check out:

Red Wine & Chocolate - Olympic Peninsula Wineries

February 9^th & 10^th and 16^th & 17^th, 2013

Red Wine & Chocolate - Yakima Valley Wineries

February 16^th & 17^th, 2013

Red Wine & Chocolate - Lake Chelan Wine Valley Wineries

February 9^th & 10^th and 16^th & 17^th, 2013

Seattle Wine & Food Experience - Seattle Center Exhibition Hall (look for an upcoming Sips & the City post on this event)

February 24^th, 2013

Poverty Bay Wine Festival - Landmark on the Sound Event Center

March 1^st, 2^nd & 3^rd, 2013

Taste Washington - CenturyLink Field Events Center (look for an upcoming Sips & the City post on this event)

March 23^rd and 24^th, 2013

Downtown Issaquah First Friday Wine Walk – Downtown Issaquah

February 1^st, March 1^st, April 5^th & May 3^rd, 2013

3rd Thursday Wine Walk – Woodinville Warehouse Wineries

Every 3^rd Thursday of the month, year round

 So pick up your tickets to a few of these events, which all are sure to serve some fantastic Washington wine. I’ll see you at a few of them myself, cheers!

Sips on the Road: Bier Thirty, Part One

Karl and Ally at Stone

Celebrating the end of the day has long been accomplished with a nice cold beer, but for my very handsome boyfriend Karl’s 30^th birthday, he wanted to celebrate the end of a decade with beer, and so we did.  Twenty real life humans and one cardboard cutout gathered the morning of January 19^th and climbed our way in to our party bus to attempt a visit to five different San Diego breweries in seven hours.  Aside from that we were given only one other goal of not racking up a bill for Karl with the bus driver by keeping ourselves “together,” a goal I’m happy to report we accomplished.  In all the day was a complete success and the breweries were welcoming, the great part for me was I had only ever been to one in person having tried beers from only a few as well, so it was a day of firsts for me.

The breweries visited in order were Stone World Bistro and Gardens, Lost Abbey, Green Flash, Rough Draft and the original San Diego brewery, Mission Brewery.  Each is deserving of their own post so over the course of a few weeks I’ll post about each going in order of those visited.