Welcome to the Neighborhood: Sound Brewery!

Its finally open! Sound Brewery has finally opened its doors to their brand new Tasting Room! And Chad and I were lucky enough to be there for their first night!

Sound Brewery is our peninsula's newest craft brewery! Chad and I have had the pleasure of knowing about its existence since November - see Mark, one of its creators, is a member of West Sound Brewers - the local brew club Chad and I are casually members of. And at our first WSB meeting, Mark was giggling like a school girl about the progression of his pet project. The brewery has been a long time coming, and this is what they founders say about it, and themselves:

"Sound Brewery is the dream project realized for five like-minded individuals with a common goal: To make and distribute the types of beers that we've been buying, searching for, imagining, brewing and enjoying for decades. We're brewers and enthusiasts, creatives, engineers and business people, working together to build a brewery that lets us express ourselves by making the beers that we think other enthusiasts will appreciate."

The evening started out with a ceremonial ribbon cutting - Chad got their early enough to snap the pictures below, I was at work.... Afterward they opened their doors and the beer started flowing!

When I finally got there, I was greeted by a beautiful sight: my husband holding two beers, of which I got to choose one. I chose the beautiful amber/red over the lighter colored one. Come to find out I chose the O'Regan's Revenge, the brain child of Mark, who had been prefecting it over the last 4 St. Patrick's Days. His goal with it was to make a "not typical northwestern red. Not overly hopped." What he came up with was a dry, yet still malty beer. In my opinion - a perfect pint.

Chad was drinking the Koperen Ketel, then a Tripel Entendre. Both were light in color, but had substantial mouthfeel, neither too hoppy. Both very good.

I think they live up to their motto well "Tradition Liberated." They've taken some very traditional ideas, and put their own subtle spin on them.

Check them out at their webpage: http://www.soundbrewery.com/
Or their tasting room at: 650 NW Bovela Ln, Suite #3, Poulsbo, WA  98370

Ahhhh, at last - a delicious beer just a few minutes from our house! We look forward to seeing what these guys come up with!

Guess Who's Talking Today!?

So this is the man of the house speaking today. Gracing you with my ever expanding knowledge and words of wisdom from which you young grasshoppers might learn a thing or two. Besides making it a personal goal of ours to try every beer and wine and other local spirits in Washington, we have noticed that their definition of Pale Ale, and Amber beers are vastly different from the rest of the country. Their Pale Ales are more of an amber with a distinctly smooth flavor yet each one has a very distinct flavor, and are stronger than the everyday mass-produced beers. While their Ambers are more of a paler color with a kick of hops that could have you guessing if you ordered the correct beer or if the server misplaced your order with an IPA or ESB. But all in all, these people have by far some of the best beers around.

Secondly, our cat Joule... our oddly astute, somewhat retarded, smart, fast-learning, and expression filled cat. From looks that say "I have been here all day, where the hell have you two been?" to looks of self-pity and "can I please have some of your food?" To even the now more apparent looks of, "Can't you two sit still!? I am trying to nap on you," looks. The slight retardation...yes, I recently got a bird feeder which has brought in some local birds, but also the attention of Joule who at first just watched them, then tried, more than once mind you, to burst through the sliding door only to have the birds look at him. Now he has resorted back to bird watching again, apparently running full force into a window hurts.

On the other side, I managed to turn on the natural gas fireplace yesterday and the little retard decided to lick the end of the butane lighter only to invoke a funny looking gag reflex and then a look of "ok, that sucked, what next?" Then, oh yes, the fire was ignited....THIS, had Joule's full attention and he intently watched every flame.





So some time passed, and then we caught him basking in the full heat of the fire, loving every minute of it. He was there for at least 30 minutes while we saw him, and then we left. We came back a while later and he was still there albeit in a different position. It was time to turn the fire off...and this...this, completely bummed Joule out, left him there wondering where all the fire went. That was pretty funny, as you can see by the pictures.



Well, I am done for now. Have to drink the rest of my beer, which isn't local, but still a good one. We have only gone to 4 breweries and we have so much more to go too, hehe.