POW! 3 updates in a week.

so yesterday was the organic brewers festival in portland.  6th annual.  meet up with shakes and sarah and proceed to drink lots of organic beers.  some good.  some not so good.

my favorite was the oakshire chocolate porter.  nice creamy body, not a lot of chocolate, the roasted malt was almost burnt.  it was excellent.

a few of the runner ups:  ambacht's golden rye,  fort george's spruce ale (made with REAL pine tree!), laht neppur's peach hefeweizen, roots' gruit kolsch.

here's this year's program so you can see what you missed.

the weather was near perfect.  70s, sunny, slight breeze.  got a nice tan action.  carla got a nice sunglasses burn.

we had gyros and elephant toes (like elephant ears, just little pieces) and mint lemonade.  it was quality everywhere.

there was a large field with a stage at the end.  the bands were pretty decent.  especially the one that came on 5pm.  target for tomorrow.  or it may have been i was totally drunk by that time, but the music moved me to dance.  carla, of course, mocked my total lack of rhythm.  but it don't stop me.