8/10/2013 Diebolt Brewing

Time for another extremely late post to the blog!  For the past year Shirey has been watching with eager anticipation as a brewery began to take shape across from his place of work.  Over the course of months Shirey even lent a hand in moving some of the equipment around, so it was exciting to finally get to see Diebolt Brewing getting ready to open.

Diebolt (pronounced Dee-bolt) is a family owned brewery making beer with a French influence.  They occupy a cool spot in Sunnyside, just north-west of downtown.

Nice sized tap-room.

As I write this I see that the current beer list is long, but at the time we went they were only pouring two - a porter and a pale ale.

I believe that's Mrs. Diebolt manning the taps.

Mr. Diebolt himself!  As this was a special soft opening he took all the patrons on a tour of the brewery.

Brew equipment, straight from China!

No real winners or losers here; both beers we sampled were good.  We look forward to heading back and sampling the full menu!

7/24/2013 Black Shirt Brewing

Black shirt brewing - a brewery tour told in photo:

Unfortunately I lost my notes for this brewery tour stop, but I do remember a couple of things.  First, the brewery is located pretty far north in the Rino neighborhood, but it's a good spot and the space itself was a great place for an afternoon beer.  

Second, the beer theme at the time was 'red' - red saison, red ale, red pale ale, red IPA, red sour mash saison and red porter.  We had no idea there was a way to make so many red beers.  Not sure if their lineup is always red beers, but when we went that's what they had.  Definitely interesting.

Winners

Can't remember.  I probably liked the saison, Shirey probably liked the porter or ale

Losers

I don't remember anything standing out as bad.

Overall

Good spot.  Nice bar.  The beers weren't the greatest we've sampled, but it was interesting to try so many different reds.

Umm, that's it?