So Long Parkside; Long Live Parkside Brewing

This blog has been quiet for the last few months because my girlfriend and I have been on the move. We packed up and abandoned our apartment in the Parkside, left San Francisco behind, and spent the autumn season traveling in Europe. Now we've landed in Honolulu, Hawaii--our new home town--and are in the process of establishing ourselves here. Getting a home brewery up and running is near the top of my list of immediate goals, as is checking out the local beer scene. In the coming months, I hope to post stuff about all of that here, and I'm also hoping to get a chance to recap on some of the beer-related aspects of our trip--you can bet I sipped local suds everywhere we went. For now, here's a picture of me marveling at hops growing wild in Northern Spain. The stuff was thriving in some of the areas we passed through, vigorous enough to overwhelm even the notoriously invasive blackberry vines. Only problem is this particular strain of hops smelled more like garlic than anything else. Oh well. More pictures and info to come.