101 and done

Our annual beer adventure has come to a hasty end.  We woke up on day four with only a couple places left on our list and a steady rain.  After checking out of crazy stair rental home, we set off to the west, passing through lush northwest terrain covered with a wet, gray blanket.  Other options to extend the voyage were possible, but the lure of vastly superior Oregon beer (and, you know, our homes and families), was too much.

We stopped for lunch and a trio of beers at 101brewing in quilcene, a quiet hamlet that puts blue cheese in their french dip.  That brilliance aside, we continued south, stopping long enough  to get soaked on a short trail hike.  Our last stop was meant to be a place in Shelton, but we arrived 20 mins prior to opening.  We gave a cursory consideration to adding in Olympia or elsewhere on the i5 corridor, but ultimately decided to point the bigfoot home.

On our way now back to where it started.  Full bellies, bruised livers, and empty wallets.  A fun 2015 beer trip in the books.  Thanks for reading, we'll see all four of our readers soon!

Little hike, big pics

A mix of a couple stops: The greenery is from a small hike in Port Ludlow, the rest is from Point No Point just across the bay from our rental.

2015 Brewery 13: Pour house (10 beers)

Propolis, chuckanut, rainy daze ipa and cider.   We actually had a lot of beers here.   None of them theirs but still a great place right on the water.  I got hot on by two hottiez while sitting at the bar.  One even wanted me to come camp in their property.

dem were some tasty pretzels

convivial #2

Making friends at pourhouse.  Very fun hangout with good taps.  Dogish head pumpkin and deschuttes abyss.  Now which one do we take home?

convivial!

I'm using my big boy words.  Port Townsend brewing had 10 brews (7 of theirs). Pretty good, though nothing remarkable.  Place was loud with locals, and we moved on quickly to pourhouse.

2015 Brewery 12: port Townsend (10 beers)

Like their beers but the first were awesome.   Talking moon Porter was smokey.  Neill liked the scotch ale and Ryan digged the bitter end ipa. 

deez beerz

port angeles beer and crab

One brewery in this port town, with only one brewed beer.  Oh well.  Went with a jubelale for a taste of home, and the we tried the super crowded crab fest.  Derrick's crab poutine looks awesome, but otherwise the place is not really our scene, and over priced.  On the road to port Townsend soon!

Sad poutine!  Who would use brown gravy and not garlic butter on crab poutine! ?!?