The Great Beer Experiment

Behold! Beer! And we made it! This is our first attempt and it turned out to be pretty tasty! Below is Matt pouring the beer into the carboy where it fermented for about ten days before being filtered and fermenting another couple of days. After that was bottling and (my favorite part) drinking!

YUM!

Yumi and Adrienne were here in October (yes, I'm still catching up!) and we had a blast! Here are some highlights:

"Farewell to America Breakfast" at Patty's Eggnest in Mukilteo. This is the Elvis Special: Fried Peanut Butter Waffle with Bananas, Whipped Cream and a hunka hunka bacon. Yumi said halfway through "I think America is very dangerous for me," and put her fork down. Haha!
Vancouver, B.C. Graffiti

Growing up is overrated.

One of a dozen raw oyster experiences. This one at the Oyster Bar on Chuckanut Drive.

Seattle Waterfront.

Matt Hopping on Rocks

See what a good wife I am? When I met this guy, it was "take footage of me skateboarding," and now it's "film me riding!" And I still do it. 'Cause I love him:)

The Little Sister

Cliche Market Sign.

The Needle. The Nerds.

Scuttlebutt Brewing Company

One of Matt and my favorite things about living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest is that there are tons of microbrewies--TONS! Oregon is definitely the big cheese of craft or microbrew producers but Washington is certainly right behind them. Some of the nicest folks you'll ever meet own and operate Scuttlebutt Brewing Company in Everett. I met them on a brewery tour that I organized (I get paid for this?!?!) and had to go back on my own to drink my share:)

Phil, the owner, gives us a taste of a featured ale.

Pub located on the waterfront. If you go, have the Halibut and Chips with a pint of their Amber. You're welcome!

Penn Cove Mussel Fest

Not too long ago, the yearly Penn Cove Mussel Festival took place in the nearby town of Coupeville. Like a geek, I looked forward to this since we moved here just a week short of attending last year. Penn Cove is just South of the town we live in a google search will prove that these are some of the most famous mussels in the world. They're small and sweet and are dirt cheap around here.

Aboard the Mussel Farm Tour.
Mussels in the beer garden with a Port Townsend microbrew:)

Where your mussels come from!

What's For Dinner? Testicles of Course!

I've wanted to try Rocky Mountain Oysters for at least ten years but I've never been somewhere that actually served them. On our visit to Couer d'Alene, Idaho to visit family, my cousin and his wife took us to the best places that only locals know about including this rad restaurant. If you're curious as to what they taste like, they have that organ meat flavor that you can almost choke down in tiny bites. It's dense, chewy and pretty darn gross.