East Bay Beer Tasting.
posted December 31, 2014 9:21 PM RSS | iCal | +googleCal
Sat January 31 at 4:00 PM, ØL BEERCAFE & BOTTLE SHOP
1541 Giammona Drive, Walnut Creek, CA, USA (Map & Directions)
So, I made some beer, it turned out good, and I like to share.
I'm calling it TCP-IPA, and the recipe is here.
Thing is, I don't get out that much, at least close to home, so I don't know a good venue for this kind of thing. I was thinking of asking Øl in Walnut Creek if I could bring some of my own - but I'd be open to other suggestions of a good place and time (in January)
UPDATE: Got a place. Details inside
This is me putting in a thing so this turns up in my recent activity - I do not currently have a suggestion! Happy new year!
posted by rtha at 12:59 AM on January 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by rtha at 12:59 AM on January 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
I, too, am putting in a thing.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:00 AM on January 1, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:00 AM on January 1, 2015
I don't know what my January is going to be like, and I know nothing about beer, but I just want to hat-tip the name.
posted by wintersweet at 3:32 PM on January 1, 2015
posted by wintersweet at 3:32 PM on January 1, 2015
That is such a deliciously nerdy name that the beer must be delicious, too. I'm in, especially since I missed the last Walnut Creek meetup, and will ponder locations. Walnut Creek only? Or is there an appropriate radius? I wish I had a giant house to invite everyone over! Alas, I do not.
posted by missmary6 at 11:01 PM on January 2, 2015
posted by missmary6 at 11:01 PM on January 2, 2015
I am interested in this depending on time and place. Next weekend and the weekend after are spoken for, but past that I would like to come.
posted by Noms_Tiem at 11:19 PM on January 2, 2015
posted by Noms_Tiem at 11:19 PM on January 2, 2015
I like beer and mefites! I will keep an eye on this thread.
posted by chatongriffes at 8:51 AM on January 3, 2015
posted by chatongriffes at 8:51 AM on January 3, 2015
The only other thing I can think of is Heather Farms - but in January, even in California, it would be too chilly, I would think.
I don't know of any places that allow you to bring in booze, because that's a big money maker for establishments and they want you to buy their drinks; would suggest a beer swap at the meet, but placing them in our bags/backpacks, and then trying later at home.
This is less immediate and satisfying for a craft brewer looking for feedback, however, we could tweet or memail you at a later date once we've cracked the bottles.
With that in mind, would you mind suggestions for venues?
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:22 PM on January 7, 2015
I don't know of any places that allow you to bring in booze, because that's a big money maker for establishments and they want you to buy their drinks; would suggest a beer swap at the meet, but placing them in our bags/backpacks, and then trying later at home.
This is less immediate and satisfying for a craft brewer looking for feedback, however, we could tweet or memail you at a later date once we've cracked the bottles.
With that in mind, would you mind suggestions for venues?
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:22 PM on January 7, 2015
Yes, totally open to suggestions. Also, what day of the week is good for folks?
posted by bashos_frog at 10:20 PM on January 7, 2015
posted by bashos_frog at 10:20 PM on January 7, 2015
Yeah, the bring-your-own is going to be tricky; urbanspoon has only Sargam tagged as BYOB, but as it also has it wrongly tagged "cash only" and "waterfront" I don't really trust that much.
Haven't been to Øl, certainly curious about it; they don't do food, but there's pizza across the street.
Pyramid Alehouse? Haven't been for a while. Reasonable beer, reasonable food, big enough that we could commandeer a table.
We like Kanishka's for food and beer, but it's quite small and quite spendy.
(Sunol Ridge looks similar, haven't been yet: great beers on tap, but food is high-end-even-for-WC expensive.)
Fond of The Counter because it has Hella Hoppy on tap -- a great local IPA -- but it tends to get busy in the evenings so maybe not great for camping out a table.
"Appropriate radius" might stretch to Concord? EJ Phair, The Pig and The Pickle, The Hop Grenade all walkable from BART.
Weekends are better for me as I commute to Milpitas and offset my day to travel after the morning/evening peak. I could easily rejig to make it home earlier for a weekday evening, though.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:19 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Haven't been to Øl, certainly curious about it; they don't do food, but there's pizza across the street.
Pyramid Alehouse? Haven't been for a while. Reasonable beer, reasonable food, big enough that we could commandeer a table.
We like Kanishka's for food and beer, but it's quite small and quite spendy.
(Sunol Ridge looks similar, haven't been yet: great beers on tap, but food is high-end-even-for-WC expensive.)
Fond of The Counter because it has Hella Hoppy on tap -- a great local IPA -- but it tends to get busy in the evenings so maybe not great for camping out a table.
"Appropriate radius" might stretch to Concord? EJ Phair, The Pig and The Pickle, The Hop Grenade all walkable from BART.
Weekends are better for me as I commute to Milpitas and offset my day to travel after the morning/evening peak. I could easily rejig to make it home earlier for a weekday evening, though.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:19 PM on January 8, 2015 [2 favorites]
Just chiming in that weekends are better.
I'm itching to arrange a meetup myself so if you could move this one forward I'd appreciate it. I don't want to post a meetup until we've had yours.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 4:51 PM on January 14, 2015
I'm itching to arrange a meetup myself so if you could move this one forward I'd appreciate it. I don't want to post a meetup until we've had yours.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 4:51 PM on January 14, 2015
(That sounded a bit curt, I didn't mean it to...)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 5:33 PM on January 14, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 5:33 PM on January 14, 2015
I like the places in Concord - I'll checkout Hop Grenade and E.J. Phair, and post something later today. Apologies for dragging this out - my schedule's been full of docs and PTs lately.
posted by bashos_frog at 4:02 PM on January 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by bashos_frog at 4:02 PM on January 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
Øl said as long as we buy some from them, (and I bring one of mine for them) I should be fine to provide my own for tasting. So I'm setting a date and place:
Saturday, January 31 at 4pm
(925) 210-1147
ØL BEERCAFE & BOTTLE SHOP
1541 Giammona Dr.
Walnut Creek, CA
(map)
posted by bashos_frog at 7:48 PM on January 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
Saturday, January 31 at 4pm
(925) 210-1147
ØL BEERCAFE & BOTTLE SHOP
1541 Giammona Dr.
Walnut Creek, CA
(map)
posted by bashos_frog at 7:48 PM on January 24, 2015 [1 favorite]
yay!
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:24 PM on January 24, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 9:24 PM on January 24, 2015
Cool! We were there on Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago; a good time to camp out a table.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 9:26 PM on January 24, 2015
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 9:26 PM on January 24, 2015
I am car-free and this is super close to the Bart station. Hope to make it and thanks for organising it in any case. Yay!
posted by Bella Donna at 6:28 PM on January 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Bella Donna at 6:28 PM on January 27, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm quite tired today so might have to cut out early but looking forward to it! Just - fyi. (power nap may save me...)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:01 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:01 PM on January 31, 2015
(Oh! I see it begins at 4pm - for some reason I thought it was later... :P)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:03 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:03 PM on January 31, 2015
Tap list. They had North Coast Angel's Share on earlier in the week, but looks like it ran out on Friday.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 1:29 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 1:29 PM on January 31, 2015
Yesterday I drove Antioch-Pleasant Hill-Fremont-Pleasant Hill-Fremont-Antioch. Today I'm going to drive as little as possible. Have fun!
posted by wintersweet at 2:21 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by wintersweet at 2:21 PM on January 31, 2015
I will be the guy in the bright blue dinosaur tee.
posted by bashos_frog at 4:05 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by bashos_frog at 4:05 PM on January 31, 2015
I'm not making it out to WC today, but I had loads of fun at the last meet up out there, so I'll keep my eye out for the next one! Hope you're all having fun!
posted by missmary6 at 4:46 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by missmary6 at 4:46 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
I can confirm that the TCP-IPA is pretty damn good. Makes me want to brew.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:51 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:51 PM on January 31, 2015
KYLE DON'T LEAVE ME HANGING WITH THAT COMMA BREW WHAT?!? WHAT???
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:52 PM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:52 PM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
Also, psho's Metafilter shirt was pretty handy.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:53 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:53 PM on January 31, 2015
Phew, that was close.
The beer was good and the pizza was good too!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:53 PM on January 31, 2015
The beer was good and the pizza was good too!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:53 PM on January 31, 2015
(I edited my trailing comma, but,)
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:56 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 6:56 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
Here's where you can buy official t-shirts if you like.
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:58 PM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 6:58 PM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
Thank you all for coming. It was a good time, and I really liked meeting you all.
posted by bashos_frog at 7:04 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by bashos_frog at 7:04 PM on January 31, 2015
Thanks for putting it together!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:05 PM on January 31, 2015
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:05 PM on January 31, 2015
I like those but I'd want an AskMe color or a Blue (old classic blue) t-shirt.
This one was a great meetup; I really enjoyed this one, don't know why because I was feeling lethargic today. Was it the pizza? Was it the Costco/Trader Joe's/Whole Foods/Sprouts/Lundardi's talk? Was it the fact that I didn't get blotto like at the last event? WHO'S TO SAY.
The name game is always fun, isn't it?
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:07 PM on January 31, 2015
This one was a great meetup; I really enjoyed this one, don't know why because I was feeling lethargic today. Was it the pizza? Was it the Costco/Trader Joe's/Whole Foods/Sprouts/Lundardi's talk? Was it the fact that I didn't get blotto like at the last event? WHO'S TO SAY.
The name game is always fun, isn't it?
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:07 PM on January 31, 2015
ALSO FOR BRINGING BEER. Because beer. Also because custom label.
I've really got to stop prevaricating and at least brew a gallon batch; brewing beer's like proofing bread, a surprising reminder that life prevails at much smaller scales than you.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 7:09 PM on January 31, 2015
I've really got to stop prevaricating and at least brew a gallon batch; brewing beer's like proofing bread, a surprising reminder that life prevails at much smaller scales than you.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 7:09 PM on January 31, 2015
Oh yeah - I really enjoyed bashos_frog's TCP-IPA - very nice session beer. Thank you for being so generous!
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:09 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:09 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
I missed the grocery store talk! Grr!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:29 PM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:29 PM on January 31, 2015 [2 favorites]
Maybe the next meetup should be at the library so I can hear people!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:30 PM on January 31, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 7:30 PM on January 31, 2015 [4 favorites]
OK the photos are uploaded - I'm afraid they are not terribly in focus but I wanted to upload something.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:54 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:54 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
The beer was great! Floor ate like a fourth if it after opening, though.
Thanks for showing me around a bit afterwards too, jcifa and whadk! Okay, maybe I should not use those acronyms
posted by halifix at 11:24 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
Thanks for showing me around a bit afterwards too, jcifa and whadk! Okay, maybe I should not use those acronyms
posted by halifix at 11:24 PM on January 31, 2015 [1 favorite]
Our pleasure. Did you end up trying the ice cream?
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:53 AM on February 1, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 6:53 AM on February 1, 2015
(Chalk painting the SHIT out of the charming old-fashioned ginger beer bottle potsmokinghippieoverlord left on the table, FYI.)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:08 AM on February 1, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 8:08 AM on February 1, 2015
UPLOAD CHALK PAINTING PLZ
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:55 AM on February 1, 2015
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 9:55 AM on February 1, 2015
Yup, the ice cream sandwich (made with cookies) was great! I think it may have contributed to slight drowsiness on the road home.
upload upload upload
posted by halifix at 12:25 PM on February 1, 2015
upload upload upload
posted by halifix at 12:25 PM on February 1, 2015
oh jeez ok later I will.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:47 PM on February 1, 2015
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 12:47 PM on February 1, 2015
gingerbeer what now?
posted by gingerbeer at 6:35 PM on February 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by gingerbeer at 6:35 PM on February 1, 2015 [2 favorites]
Ok here it is - I do three coats, this is coat 2. And it's rough so...
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:38 PM on February 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 7:38 PM on February 1, 2015 [1 favorite]
I just want to say it looks kind of crappy in the photo (something about the flash) but it is VERY CUTE IN PERSON. Heh. Like me. (Sorry.)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 2:54 PM on February 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 2:54 PM on February 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
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posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 9:32 PM on December 31, 2014