Cascadia Beer Odyssey: Awesome Breweries

We are a bit miffed to the fact that the weather is beautiful at home. It’s supposed to be cold and rainy until we return. Ah well, summer in Washington begins on July 4. We all know that.

This will be a short post as we are headed to Healdsburg and Booneville soon.

July 5 was about the beer from two of our favorite breweries, Lagunitas in Petaluma and Russian River in Santa Rosa. We took a brewery tour at Lagunitas long enough to learn that the uninformed tour guide liked to exaggerate. So we bailed to the beer garden. It was beautiful. Fantastic samples, sunny weather, live music fun people. We made some new friends too. Favorite beer was the pilsner and a freshly tapped cask pale.

Russian River was amazing and we landed on the right day as they were celebrating a collaboration project with Sierra Nevada called Brux, a brett beer with great balance. We of course needed the sample tray pictured below. It was really too good to be true. Wonderful beer from a magnificent brewery.

Following Russian River Steeny needed one more brewery under his belt so we walked around the corner to 3^rd street brewery. Mac bought a new hat.

Note to our mothers, we were not driving, we had a taxi.