Hello from Seattle!

sunvalleylaw · Nov 6, 2011

Hey! Welcome. I am new here too. I now live in the Sun Valley area, but am a Tacoma/Gig Harbor area native. Used to home brew there, and here, but gave it up a few years due to being busy with kids, etc.

beerman315 · Nov 7, 2011

AkwardTurtle said:
Dang its good to see so many Washington folks on here! Welcome to the West Coast, is our laid back pace driving you absolutley bonkers? The frustration really should have some kind of fancy acronym, we see it a lot out here. But if we do that, someone will come up with a pill for it. Forget I said anything.

Laid back doesn't bother me except when I'm trying to get somewhere on I-5. I know the speed limit is 60 but there's no reason everyone can't do 75!

Bookem15 · Nov 7, 2011

That is why I moved to the east side of the state.lol

sunvalleylaw · Nov 7, 2011

Yeah, I always say that back in the mid 90s, the californication of the state forced me to move to Idaho to be come part of their expansion problems. I did not mind the urban cores becoming more crowded so much, as the endless sprawl out toward the ocean, across the narrows bridge onto the peninsula and the mountains, making the long, crowded drive out to nature almost not worth the experience once you got there.

I blame it pretty much on Ken Berhing, and on the Nordstrom's for selling the seahawks.

Now I like living out here in the country, and visiting my native home.

ABrewingApe · Nov 7, 2011

South Seattleite here, welcome!

It's important to realize that you've just moved into one of the most pumpkin-beer-obsessed parts of the country--probably the world. If you don't keep your fermenter full of something else, the pumpkin beer will actually break into your house in the dead of night and hide in there.

america · Dec 14, 2011

ABrewingApe said:
South Seattleite here, welcome!

It's important to realize that you've just moved into one of the most pumpkin-beer-obsessed parts of the country--probably the world. If you don't keep your fermenter full of something else, the pumpkin beer will actually break into your house in the dead of night and hide in there.

I had no idea we liked the pumpkin beer so much. I was skeptical at first but now I do quite like the few I've tried. Made the Thunderstruck Pumpkin ale this year and it turned out great. Do you have any others that stand out in your mind?