facebook posts from 2014

1. 

   

   

   

   

2. Happy New Year!

3. Not Mount Doom, but nearby.

4. Wellington craft beer bars are as good as or better than Bay Area craft beer bars, Beer Revolution in Oakland is the only decider.

5. with Amanda Walker Stavely. Dawson Falls rules, the park deserved days not hours but hours we had.

   

   

   

   

   

   

6. So it’s like tomorrow for you already since you are halfway around the world in the southern hemisphere (SO jealous 😃) but…Happy Happy Birthday!!

7. Happy birthday young man 😉

8. Eeekselen beersies, bummed we just found this place.

9. 

   

   

10. Wellington, NZ

11. at Pukaha Mount Bruce, National Wildlife Centre. A white kiwi and a… non-white kiwi. Kinda useless photos, they are nocturnal and don’t like to hang out anywhere but in the dark (room).

    

    3, 5, and 6 were ok, a lot like Yuengling or Saranac’s line-up. I forget how crazy the U.S. Craft beer scene is, and the west coast in particular.

    

    

    

    

    

    

12. Tui Brewery: Yuengling in any color you like, average 4%, including the one they call an east India pale ale.

13. ABSOLUT CLICK FACTORY.

    (Duty free in Sydney).

14. Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, and one picture of sheep as we drove away from the Shire, from the Lord of the Rings (which we didn’t actually bother to see on account of it requiring a 2 hour tour). For reference: all liquids (except the sheep) in these photos are boiling or near boiling.

    

    

    

    

    For scale: the crackly stuff on the left of the pond are super unreal sulfur crystals the size of toasters.

    

    

15. 

16. Hella Pikesville (made in Bardstown, KY, been there too) rye hooch in that there New Zealand 'hon.

17. Queenhavers: curious gamehavers.

18. 

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Michael Graham Elizabeth Funderburk the danged thing won’t turn on!

    

    sometimes flickr sends the title, sometimes it doesn’t. That’s a bobcat walking around Rodeo Lagoon. Bobcat tails (not pictured) are lollers.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Best post-it notes ever.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Flick!

    

    

    

    

    Made possible by getting my filtering gear out and sanitized, readying two kegs for the juggling act, carrying an umbrella at all times, and fate.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Had half an ounce of German Pearle in the fridge left over from a previous batch so they went in the bag too.

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

19. 

    

    

    

    

20. “The Chamber of Commerce, KIWANIS, the Lions, The Loyal Order of Masons, Rotary Club, Jaycees, Eastern Star, The Rosicrucians, the Knights of Columbus, and the Shriners welcome you to Auckland.” -my name for the little dude in our condo for the next two nights.

21. Attn. brands, I am hot w/ the white male 18-35 demo, plz contact my agent for endorsements.

22. with Amanda Walker Stavely at Koko Head Stairs of Doom. Koko Crater Hike

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

23. Couldn’t find an ABC near Koko Crater.

24. Koko Crater Hike

25. with Amanda Walker Stavely. Ka’ena State Park

    

    

    

    Arp! Arp! Arp!

    

    I ❤️ U Tony’s Neopolitana!

    

    

    Albatross.

    

26. Homesick already.

27. Aloha, at Pipeline, Oahu, HI

28. The only snowman I’ve made in a few years has Oreo crumb eyes and a liquorice nose.

29. Our gingerbread house entry in the competition is serious business.

    

    An exact replica, good eye!

    

    

    

30. Nope.

31. Kegging an Imperial Stout that finished at ~9.5%. I haven’t brewed in the two months since this batch. January plans: an IPA with Ben Miller’s hops.

32. New location in an office park with a canning machine, same great stuff.

33. 

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Title: Invisible Beer.

    

    

    

34. This Joshua Tree warp level has people that deliver cheeseburgers on roller skates. The closest In and Out is a five mile drive away. 😦

35. WYLD STALLYNS!

36. Sampler of… All of these󾦇

37. Explaining to the people in charge of things that we are not pregnant.

38. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag

39. It sounds like Manhattan in the mission.

40. Gonna see the Sunday night 6PM show if anyone wants to join.

41. This is crazy http://www.digitalattackmap.com/#anim=1&color=0&country=ALL&time=16351&view=map

42. Hay bales at a company party: oh god, flashbacks.

    

43. A quality brewing thermometer can double as a no-HVAC misery index.

44. (clicker)

45. 

    Thanks! I had to hold my phone out an open window to get around the glare.

46. St. Patrick’s from the 44h floor of the palace.

47. Trip report: New York City has exactly the same weather as San Francisco, and apparently someone important choked once because there are Heimlich maneuver posters everywhere.

48. Tour time.

49. Lulz

50. “My favorite food is Petse” -Me, 12/31/84.

51. http://www.thechapelsf.com/event/635829-blockhead-san-francisco/ anyone want to join me tomorrow night for a great DJ+MC in the mission? $18, great venue. cc: Amber Dubya

52. He’s a GRILLMASTER

53. YAY

54. These bottles of ginger ale were the exact same size when fermentation started Sunday.

55. For the wall?

56. Comment section reserved for Danny Marquardt to give me dat ginger ale recipe. Because I am too lazy to install another dumb IM app.

57. The new pump works!

58. ~ brew install smoked porter

59. He’s a Bro

60. I prefer the term “corporate cant”. There is too much doublespeak in it to classify as a proper jargon.

61. A near little blinding ball of a rainbow over Sutro.

62. Welp, the city made all the tech companies change where their shuttle stops are. Evernote now has one pretty much right in front of my apartment at the 33 stop.

63. An unusual number of people I know are in Ocean City, MD this week and I didn’t get a single invite!

64. He’s a GAMER

65. Vault doors at the old San Francisco U.S. Mint.

66. Commute to Evernote

67. Commute to Evernote

68. Danny Marquardt I grabbed some champagne yeast yesterday, gimme that ginger ale recipe.

69. Ya think?

70. Beep boop beep beep

71. I think I broke my trackpad clicking on this.

72. One gallon of krausen 24 hours into a double-pitched imperial stout: to blow-off or not to blow-off?

73. Jack London State Park, summit view.

74. Found a 13GB drive at Dad’s over the weekend containing my only copy of my geocities.com/TimesSquare/6164/ site. Eek.

75. Nevada Falls - Yosemite

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    Yosemite

76. Nevada Falls, Half Dome, Yosemite

77. Wapama Falls - Hetch Hetchy

78. Wapama Falls - Hetch Hetchy - about 300, then 600, then 100 more feet.

79. Vernal Falls - Yosemite

80. Nevada Falls - Yosemite

81. C A B L E T V

82. Sleigh’r finished at a solid 1.009 in secondary wrapped in my new electric heating element. \m/

83. 

    It is not to go. But don’t worry I got you something.

84. As juror number 7 I feel that I should practice judging things, starting with a Goose Island Bourbon County Barleywine.

85. Yisssss

    

    

    I don’t have the story on two Feb. 12s on the door calendar but I will report back when I find out.

86. PS: Our group brought a carpet and a chandelier and are playing some Miles Davis.

87. With the first group in line for a 2014 taste of Pliny the Younger.

88. lulz 2008

89. I need a show buddy to go see Queens of the Stone Age with me in April. Anyone wanna go?

90. Obnoxious check-in alert.