beernesday

at lori's diner in san francisco, i got to sample the following six bits of ambrosia: green flash's le freak - 9.2% speakeasy big daddy ipa - 6.5% 21st amendment brew free or die ipa - 7% stone brewing arrogant bastard ale - 7.2% deschutes hop in the dark cda - 6.5% napa smith organic ipa - 7.1% le freak:  i was leery of trying this one because its a belgian style tripel crossed with an american double ipa... but fears were for naught!  the hops, love the hops!  it didn't taste belgiany to me.  clear and pale and delicious!  2 thumbs up! big daddy ipa:  definitely bananas and bread, not the hoppiest.  clear and pale.  at first i only gave it one thumb up because it wasn't doing it for me.  too fruity and not hoppy enough for me.  however, i helped one of my buddies drink theirs at the end, and i loved it!  so 2 thumbs up is my final decision! brew free or die ipa:  malty and hoppy - what a great combo!  cle...

i spent the labour day weekend in my little version of heaven i love san francisco! and this time my visit took me somewhere new which enabled my two loves, s.f. and beer, to mesh! lori's diner, on powell street, right where downtown and the tenderloin meet, has "over 100 world famous beers" to try so why wouldn't i go spend a sunny afternoon on her patio working my way through some of them? there's a draught menu, and a bottles menu which together added up to 93 not too sure where she keeps the rest of the over 100... they offer samplers of all the draughts you can try 3 or you can try 6 shockingly we all decided to try six... they cost us $9.95 and looked to be around 5oz each regardless of alcohol content, we got full pours (they advertise pour size being dictated by alcohol volume) so we scored! of the 93 beers listed on the menu, i know for sure i've had 21 of them i think i may have had a couple more, but didn't want to round...