Prodigal Son Brewing

Last weekend my wife and I popped down to northeast Oregon to go camping. On our way down and on our way back we stopped a new kids on the block Prodigal Son Brewing in Pendleton Oregon.  I’ve been following these guys on Facebook for some time impatiently waiting for them to open.  It’s nice [...]

Washington Cask Fest

This last weekend my wife, a couple of friends, and I went to the Washington Cask Fest to pour beer up in Seattle.  We brought a bourbon barrel aged IPA, a Irish stout, and a coconut brown ale.  It seemed like all of the beers where well received and I got a lot of return [...]

The Irish in Me

Last weekend we had some of Katy’s friends from work over to have a early St. Patrick’s Day party (I’m getting too old to do it on a work night I guess).  So I made Irish soda bread and Irish stew, I also made two special beers for the occasion, one being a traditional dry [...]

Tri-Cities Lame, Or Is It?

Well so far it’s been quite the weekend, it started off with quite and impressive beer and cheese pairing at Cheese Louis on Friday night.  Some of the great brews we had included an Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout from Great Divide, Jubele 2010 from Deschutes, a beir de garde from Lost Abbey, a semi [...]

Creating the perfect pizza

Well the name of the post says it all I guess, I’m starting to think about possible food options for my future brew pub these days and pizza keeps popping back into my mind because if done well it can be really good and well it goes well with beer.  Trouble is with pizza is [...]

Beer and Chocolate

Some time ago I got the idea to see if our local chocolatier, Baums House of Chocolates, would put our beer in their chocolates.  The idea really came from them since Rick at Baums had recently released a special wine chocolate with a local winery’s wine.  I had no idea how well this would go [...]

Ravioli

Yesterday I made garlic squash stuffed ravioli and garlic rosemary and chicken stuffed ravioli, they were very tasty but a pain to make.  I’m thinking if I make this a regular thing I’m going to get one of those ravioli rolling pins.

Mushroom Harvest

A couple of days ago we where able to finally harvest some of the shitakis we have been growing.  I figured a good way to showcase the mushrooms was to make a shitaki and cheese pizza.  Just looked this morning and it seems like I’m going to have to do another harvest today, I’m thinking [...]

Psycobabble

Today was one of those days….I guess sometimes i just get really frustrated at how the brewery doesn’t seem to be going the direction I would like it to go.  It’s all been talked about and plans have been made to expand but nothing seems to happen. I was kind of in a funk today [...]

Shrooms

For Christmas my Mom and Dad gave Katy and I a Shitaki mushroom kit from Rainforest Mushroom Company. I followed the directions and a week later this is where it’s at.  The brown glob with white stuff growing all over it kind of looks alien but it’s been pretty cool watching it grow.  I’m looking [...]