This month’s Fermentation Friday topic (hosted by Pfiff!) is homebrewing horror stories.

Here goes… *ahem*
It was a dark and stormy night, many moons ago. Two young homebrewers, Steph and Tim, sat in the firelight, discussing their next recipe.
“Why don’t we do something crazy?” pondered Steph. “Like a 100+ IBU IPA using only Warrior hops!”
Tim agreed, “That’s [...]

Our last day in Colorado… Booooo. Believe it or not, we didn’t set foot in a single brewery that day! How odd!
Instead, we took another drive up to the mountains, this time we drove directly west towards Loveland Pass. We drove up this road:
To get here:
Wow. 12,000 ft! (Yeah, I know the sign says 11,990 [...]

We woke up on Saturday feeling (semi) refreshed and (kind of) ready for another GABF session. But first, it was time to fill up in preparation for another 4 hours of beer tasting. So we checked out the Cherry Creek Farmers’ Market for breakfast.

I love farmers’ markets. You can’t beat the selection of fresh, delicious [...]

Finally, the day of our first GABF had arrived! But the session wasn’t until 5:30pm, so of course we went to a couple of breweries first.We drove to Fort Collins to see what we could see up there. The plan was to go to New Belgium Brewing Company for a tour, but it turned out [...]

One good night’s sleep was all we needed to recover from the total exhaustion that resulted from the first day of our trip. Next morning, we were up and at ‘em, and off to the mountains!

We headed northwest towards Estes Park to go hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. What an amazingly beautiful place! Hiking [...]

We went to Colorado last week for GABF. Woo hoo! Time for me to chronicle our trip.
We flew out on Tim’s birthday, October 8th. While we were sitting at our gate, waiting to board the plane, we noticed that there were quite a few people there wearing beer-related t-shirts. It turned out that about half [...]

Yep, I’ll be there! We’re leaving for Colorado tomorrow and we’ll be back on Monday. I will most definitely be posting about our trip when we get back! We’re attempting to hit up 8 breweries, 1 tap house, and 2 GABF sessions.
GABF! AAAAH!!!!

This month’s Session topic (hosted by my brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law at Bathtub Brewery) is Beer and Memories.
Is there a beer that reminds you of a specific memory?
Why yes, Ray and Melissa, there is. In fact, I’ve got a handful of beers in mind for this one.
In May 2007, my husband (who was actually still [...]