Oskar Blues Brewery and Beer Swapping

The wonderful people at Oskar Blue Brewery opened the doors of their brew pub, The Tasty Weasel, to the herd of weasels (or cats) that is the BBC blogger crowd. Hungry bloggers poured in to find Dale's Pale Ale and Old Chub taps at the back to pour at your leisure and a meal fit for several members of the royal family (The Boudin Balls were the best, and no, for those of you out there that were asking me if I was going to get rocky mountain oysters, I did not). Pulled pork, chicken wings, home-make bleu cheese dressing, gumbo....needless to say I thoroughly hurt myself.

After dinner and a fun game of Foosball with The Beer Wench, we were given a tour of the brewery to see all the wonderful gadgets that they were playing with, including a new kegging machine that they had just purchased from Sierra Nevada! They explained the importance of canning and how they truly avoid oxidization with “co2 knives” to cut the head off the beer and place the caps on and seal them oxygen free. We also got a glimpse of things to come packed away in oak barrels but they insisted that I was hallucinating, they weren't the barrels I was looking for apparently...

We left Oskar Blues with heavy hearts however this quickly changed to euphoria because we had a bottle share to get to back at the conference site. There was so much beer that I had never tasted before, so naturally I had no other choice but to tackle the task of making sure at least a drop hit my pallet. I feel that this part of the night is best explained visually so I have made a montage of the evening as I remember it. Enjoy!

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#bbc10 Morning of the First Day

I took off this morning to go to the Beer Bloggers Conference at about 5am this morning. My flight was ok but I couldn't help thinking the entire time, “What was I doing? Why am I going to this? How am I going to honor the wonderful people that have believed in me at this potentially awesome trip?”

Peering out my little airplane window down at the rockies, I sat there self reflecting and decided that I was going to be a sponge this weekend. I was just going to keep an open mind...

I landed in Denver and to my dismay my checked baggage had been taped up with the word “Inspected” all over it. Thankfully nothing had been abused or worse consumed. I met up with Jeff from HeBrew Brewing Club at the airport and we drove through probably the most beautiful plains that I have ever seen straight to a wall of mountains and snow.

Boulder is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been, I honestly don't want to leave!

The first day of the conference covered many important technical things including ways of stylizing your blog brought to us by Draft Magazine, and Native Search information to make your blog more discoverable, and beer pairings!

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