Proprietor's Bourbon County Stout

  Coconut is one of my favorite things, and added to craft beer? Oh my goodness talk about delicious.  The Proprietor's Bourbon County Stout with coconut and aged in Rye Whisky barrels is just incredible.  Goose Island has surprised me in how well their buyout was handled and that the quality and distribution has only flourished!  Of course you can't get this variation in California, so you'll have to offer up rare brews to get your hands on it.

It really did taste like a Mounds, bittersweet, silly smooth, and vanilla swirls.  This whale's got it going on, though it's hard for me to favorite this beauty over the Cherry Rye Bourbon County.

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Mash & Coconut, a barley wine aged in bourbon barrels from The Bruery.

Happy almost weekend!

The Bruery Reserve Society Initiation Party

  

    Oh the fantastical world of fine beer and lovely company.  I'm a Melange 3, Two Turtle Doves, Barrel Roll, and Black Tuesday kinda girl.  I might have been jumping with excitement and glee over just how delicious the brews tasted.  Cheers to a wonderful week ahead my dears!

The Bruery Provisions

    The Bruery Provisions is my favorite beer tasting room, it might also be the only beer tasting room I've ever been to, that's beside the point.  Located in the oh so adorable Downtown Orange area, it's hard not to feel all smitten.  They do beer so right, flights of 5 terrifically crafted brews with prices ranging from $6.00-$9.00!  Their cheese and charcuterie plates are just downright shmancy, and it would be pretty much the most perfect place to have a date.  Their wine flights are also tasty, picked myself up the best Tempranillo I've ever had and expanded my beer collection too!  The Bruery knows how to do beer in the most innovative way possible, I can easily say they're my favorite in the craft beer world. 

The Bruery: Barrel Aged Beer Party

The Bruery, pretty much my favorite beer creators and masters of perfecting the most delicious and unique brews in the entire world.  I'm a geek, a beer geek at that, also a craft geek and beyond that.  So much so that I'm a Reserve Society Member at The Bruery, in which I get first dibs on allocations and special release beer.  They age brews in Heavenly Hill Bourbon Barrels and use fresh herbs to make beer that much more interesting.  Pictured above is an event showcasing barrel-aged bliss with vintage 2009 Black Tuesday, A bourbon Peanut Butter beer, Coton from 2010, Oude Tart w/ cherry...  Beers that totally put me and my lovlies in swoonsville.  Also it was catered by the one and only Beachwood BBQ, pulled pork, blue cheese grits, homemade cornbread, and pure southern goodness.

Being a geek is awesome, especially when you have wonderful people to geekout with.  Happy hump day darlins!

Bourbon Barrel Aged Yeti

Apparently it's National Stout Day, so I felt the need to review one of my favorite stouts from Great Divide.  Here we have a Bourbon barrel aged beauty who decided to spend 9 months aging in the Rockies and finally come down for a visit.  She's a real butte with her velvety cocoa and subtle vanilla undertones, ending on a roasty pleasant note.  There just so happened to be a truffle cake of some sorts on the table to pair with this, special thanks to Erika!  Overall I adored this spin on the Yeti, however I feel it would be far superior with a year or two of aging.  Can't wait to try my 2009 version of this, happy stout day ya'll! 

Kern River

Kern River is one of my favorite places to go during the summer, especially with my fam.  Lot's of picnicing happened and the water was incredibly perfect for jet skiing and drinking wine on the beach.  Of course we had a trip or two to Kern River Brewing Company where they had the delicious Class X aged in Bourbon Barrels, which I will disclose the amount that we consumed over the weekend it was that good.  For being a middle of nowhere town, they have the best grub ranging from awesome Fish & Chips to Bacon Bleu Cheese burgers, and after a long day on the water it totally hits the spot.

This little getaway is so close too!  Only 3 hours from Los Angeles and absolutely gorgeous.  Life is all about experiencing and living my friends, make it a point to get out and see this pretty little world... This weekend I'll be in June Lake and Mammoth, it's gonna be so relaxing I can't wait!

San Fransisco Outsidelands Music Festival

 

A pretty city, a pro-picnicing community, parks like you wouldn't believe, and a music festival nestled in one of my favorite places, Golden Gate Park.  We wound up at the Monk's Kettle sipping some delicious Belgians and Saisons, and I wish we had been hungry enough to eat from their menu.  Later we wound up at Outside Lands, honestly wasn't all that great day one, it was gloomy, freezing, and the walk was much longer than we anticipated.  Plus the two performers we really wanted to see were being diva's and drinking Crystal Champagne and not doing what they were paid to do.  Oh Big Boi and Erika Badu, you suck. 

Thankfully Saturday brought bright blue skies and a Anniversary party to celebrate Toronado's 24th year providing San Fransiscan's with the best beer at extremely reasonable prices.  Don't tell anyone, but I'm starting to like Sour Beers... I enjoyed a few at the party and my predictions of the beer spectrum were true!  I'll explain more about that in a strictly beer post.

Saturday's highlight performers were wonderful, Sia really surprised me with her grand stage presence and sheer cuteness.  The Roots truly were the Ultimate, Rock-rocking it!  I felt like I was 18 again and a hip hop princess in that moment, sigh.

Sunday was a $10 bottomless Mimosa morning, kicked off at Circa where the food was yummy and the day started off right.  Tune-Yards was one of the best performers I've ever seen, miss Merill rocks the loop pedal, layering her own vocals, drums, and Yuke magic!  Everyone was head bobbing to this beauty.  Arcade Fire was amazing as usual, though I wish the sound engineers had made it louder, oh well.  

Back to the real world I go, it's ok though cause Friday it's Hollywood Bowling round one!  I'm already concocting the cheese plate in my head and pairing the wines...  Happy Tuesday!