In my ongoing attempt to try all the best things in life, I went to the Cascades Brewery yesterday. I'd been told it was an easy 30-45 min walk from the hostel and, as the day was fine and sunny, off I trotted. 90 minutes later, hot and sweaty after the mainly uphill walk, I arrived.
The tour lasted just over an hour and was very interesting - I can see why people brew their own beer now - and the place smelled wonderful either malty or fresh beer-y
After the tour (which included the bottling plant - see other photos) we had the tasting. We could sample up to three different beers, although the samples were only about a third of a pint, so I tried the Premium Lager, the Pale Ale and the Stout. I have to say the stout is wonderful, a rich coffee chocolate taste.
The thing is, I overslept and therefore didn't have any breakfast before my 90 minute walk in the hot sun and my 70 minute tour of the brewery. When we came to the sampling I was extremely thirsty (even though I had finished a bottle of water) and I had to exercise extreme discipline in not necking the samples. As it was, I did end up ever-so slightly tired and emotional but not so much that I didn't take advantage of the special offer of six bottles of beer in their own cooler for $22.
Coffee-chocolate stout, second only to strawberry ice-cream as man's greatest invention.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
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2 comments:
HaHa Herman!!
So now you knoe the inside (at least as tourist) of a brewery...
Did I told you of my years as Food&Beverage Hygiene Marketing&Application Mgr?? I was a reputee professional on OPC (open plant cleaning-mainly slaugtherhouses) and very good in CIp(cleaning in place-mainly dairy)but breweries....haaaaaaaaaa so nice when time to test production.
Because of my odd nationality, I was never able to compete with UK or germans (they think tehy expert...but cleaning is different from drinking,and in 1995 I won the MKT International drinking contest in UK with 14 pints...not bad hehe number 2 was a scottish and the pints was free!!).
Always anonymous Mr Jam
Will you finish these holidays one day?
"vero viaggio e' il ritorno"
have a look at www.englishfirst.com they ad for engl.teacher in China.
It seems good salary but...check yourself.
Mr.jam
Ps. it means "real trip is the trip back" and stressed the fact that the real meaning of travelling is to came back one day to your homeplace (this I'll say check the chinese meaning of homeplace, much more complex than Uk/EU meaning)or to have the conscience (hope is the rigth word but I'm tired,and too lazy to open the dictionary)you'll have a place were come back one day.
more to follow if you're interested
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