Daily Archive: June 9, 2010

Chico (part 2)

When I last left off, we were getting brewskies at the Sierra Nevada Taproom & Restaurant. There are several cool (hippie approved) things about Sierra Nevada that you should know: In their fermentation tanks, living yeasts convert the malt sugars into alcohol and CO2.  The type of beer produced depends on the strain of yeast and the fermentation temperature profile.  So basically, the entire area smelled like nooch.  I love me some yeast 🙂 Natural bottle conditioning is one of the signature features of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.  They produce more bottle-conditioned ales than any… Read more >

Chico (part 1)

After a fun weekend+ getaway in Chico, I am back in L’town for a hot second, before heading off to Monterey and then Santa Barbara.  Can you believe we have already put over 1,000 miles on our new car!  Summer break 2010 continues… But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.  We didn’t actually head to Chico ‘til Sunday because the Saturday before was a friend’s birthday. Since our schedules are more wide-open than Lindsay Lohan’s, we stayed in the Bay Area an extra day to help him celebrate (by which I mean drink heavily… Read more >