Doc's Tour Of San Diego 2009

[Doc]

Another year, another trip.
Again the US, and the conference hasn't moved, so again San Diego.

If you search back through the board you will see that I've been to White Labs, Stone Brewery, Southern California Craftbrewers Festival, Port Brewing etc etc.

So this year I was lucky enough to coincide with The Lost Abbey's Xmas in July beer festival.

So here are some pics from this arvo.

What was avail this arvo.

 

[Doc]

The main part of the brewery.

 

[Doc]

Lining up for tasters or to pay for take away bottles if you weren't paying cash.

 

[Doc]

Entrance to the barrel room.

 

[Doc]

More barrels and beer storage across the other side of the lot

 

[Doc]

Part of the main barrel room.

 

[Doc]

The charity that was supported on the day, both with a cash donation from attendees, and a toy drive (on top of the cheque).

 

[Doc]

It was a great arvo up at San Marcos.
Had a good chat with Tomme and a few others from the brewing crew.
Have a couple of bottles stashed for consumption during the week too.

Now off to find some dinner.

Doc

 

[BrenosBrews]

Pretty good timing eh? Did you get some bottles of the special releases?
I was sooo tempted to just book the flight when I saw this a few weeks ago...about $950 return.

 

[Screwtop]

Nice little junket Doc :super:

But...............Sqyre.........What was Renae doing there?????????



:lol:

 

[Bizier]

I think I need to change my line of profession to one involving similar conferences, mine all seem to come to Darling Harbour...

Good work Doc.

 

[sqyre]

You lucky bugger Doc... :beer:

But...............Sqyre.........What was Renae doing there?????????

You know Renae Screwy,
She gets around...

Sqyre... :lol:

 

[Doc]

Nice little junket Doc :super:

But...............Sqyre.........What was Renae doing there?????????

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:lol:

How about this one ??

 

[sqyre]

How about this one ??

Cant see Renae in that one...
But i think the chick at the front just found out she's got a week to live.... :blink:
Either that or they ran out of Beer... :lol:

Sqyre.

 

[Doc]

Went to the Top Gun bar for dinner last night (the bar from the movie, where they play the piano, sing etc).
It got burnt out when I was here last year, but has been fixed up and is up and running again.

Green Flash West Coast IPA on tap. This is a great big hoppy IPA.

I'm posting pics of all the good beer related stuff as I go on the Doctors Orders Brewing Twitter account here

Beers,
Doc

 

[mikem108]

Again the US, and the conference hasn't moved, so again San Diego.

The San Diego Comic-con? http://www.comic-con.org/
Secrets out Doc

Is that you on the left?




Just kidding coz I'm jealous

 

[Doc]

Last day of comic con today.
There are a lot of freaks in the world and all the Syfy/Sci-Fi ones are in San Diego this weekend.
The number of people dressed up as Harry Potter, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, random progs/movies I've never even heard of is incredible.

I swear this chick was on my airport transfer shuttle
There are alot of photos to see what I'm talking about at this site

Now off to find somewhere appropriate for dinner and away from the comic nerds.
Hamiltons should do it.

Beers,
Doc

 

[mikem108]

And people think being a beer nerd is bad.....

 

[glennheinzel]

The beer menu at Hamiltons looks awesome. It looks like the Local Tap House, but on steroids.

Off- topic. Whilst Boba Fett and the Biker Scout are cool, let me know if you see Princess Leia in the gold bikini.

 

[Doc]

Hamiltons was awesome last night.
Had a great time, and got talking with another homebrewer at the bar.

The food was really good too.
They do a Hop Sausage which was fantastic.

HOME OF THE HOP SAUSAGE!!!
What is a Hop Sausage?
Hop Sausages are hand ground, cased, parboiled and grilled Sausages made in
house incorporating Hop Leaves! Each sausage recipe we create always the use
of whole hops as part of the ingredient bill! This gives us the opportunity to of-
fer you a Brewmaster inspired 'Hop Sausage Plate' that typically is crafted to
pair with our Weekly Friday Happy Hour Cask. A great value as the plate always
comes with creative sides and homemade sauces. No one is making Hop Saus-
ages so if you're a fan of beer and sausage, look no further!

Stand out DIPA so far this trip is the West Coast IPA from Green Flash (I've found it at a few bars already). It was even better than Pliny last night :0

Doc

PS: didn't see any Princess Leia's Rukh, but did see a lot of candidates for the Suicide Girls website (go on google it, you know you want to)