We've gotten to meet a lot of really awesome people so far. We met Lee from Stewards of Beer for a sampling of Flying Dog and Deschutes at a local bottle shop. Deschutes is new to the area and makes amazing session beers, 4 - 5.5% ABV. They are based in Bend, Oregon and have just started distributing in the Pittsburgh area. We decided to get six packs of Flying Dog’s Raging Bitch Belgian IPA and Deschutes Chainbreaker White IPA and Black Butte Porter. We will be reviewing those soon.
Saturday evening we took a trip to Kelly's Bar & Lounge for some VooDoo (the beer, not the magic, okay maybe a little magic). They had about half a dozen VooDoo beers, and one VooDoo brewer on tap for the event. We had a chance to talk to Kirt, the head brewer for VooDoo, for a bit while we were there. He is a self proclaimed fan of big, hoppy beers which really shows in their beer lineup. We tried a hoppy tripel, a hoppy pilzner, a hoppy stout, and a hoppy (duh) IPA. We're looking forward to hopefully seeing him again this Saturday out at House of 1000 Beers where they'll be tapping some rare brews from VooDoo's barrel room collection. Maybe we'll even work on planning a trip to see the barrel room in person sometime.
Yesterday we went to Brunch at Harris Grill in Shadyside. They were tapping a rare barrel of Weyerbacher Sunday Morning Stout. The first time a barrel of the stout has made its way to the western part of the state. We’ll have a full post review of that beer coming tomorrow.
We then decided to head out to Bocktown in Robinson to meet Jason Cercone, the blogger of Breaking Brews. While there we got to do a taste test comparing our taste buds between bigbeer and microbeer. Lets just say there were some bigbeers that didn't taste like bigbeer. Neither of us did quite well enough to win the prize, but we did walk away with a pair of Bug Nots, a little plastic cap for your drink when you’re outside to keep bugs out. While we were there we also decided to get a flight of four collaboration beers brewed just for the Craft Beer Week. Thusly we now have a cover photo for our Facebook Page. While we were out, we picked up the book, "The Naked Brewer" which will get read and reviewed.
If you are in Pittsburgh and go to any of the PCBW events, don’t forget to get your picture taken with the BC Times Beer Guy or maybe just his poster, trending now #beerguyselfie. We might even post ours, just as soon as we figure out how to twitter.
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