For the show in Fremont, I hoped against all odds that there would be some type of place in the area that served craft beer. Using my handy BeerWhere application on my phone, I found a brewery! In Fremont! Yessssss!
Jack’s Brewing is a little sports pub in the middle of downtown Fremont. It’s not labeled well and if not for the “Jack’s Brewing Company” van parked out front, I may have never found it.
Their selection of beer was decent. They had the standards: wheat, APA, amber, IPA, porter, plus a seasonal pilsner and double IPA.
Lemon in the wheat. Grumble grumble grumble. Overall I enjoyed the double IPA and amber the best. The wheat was watery, unflavorful and meh, but everything else surprised me with quality! All the beers were sweeter and malty with unfermented sugars, but it wasn’t off-putting. Decent sessionable beers with low ABVs.
I would like to add that this was the best pilsner I’ve had to date! I’m not a fan of the style, but I think the malty body really made me enjoy this pilsner. I’m fairly certain that the SRM is way too high to qualify as a true pils, but I sure enjoyed it!
We split an order of the artichoke dip – holy freaking delicious. I stole all of the cheese and inhaled giant dollops of this on the chips they provided. I was full before we even looked at the entrees.
And yet, somehow, I was able to fit more food in. The grilled salmon salad. I didn’t eat the salad – that’s just filler. The salmon was wonderful! Tender, juicy, caramelized on top from the grill. I love me some salmon!
Dessert? I couldn’t. Pecan-apple bread pudding? Okay, fine! Stop badgering me! We got this plate to split amongst four of us. I ate the entire thing. You snooze, you lose when it comes to bread pudding and me. This spiced bread was studded with candied pecans and sweet, juicy bites of apple, and drizzled with raspberry and caramel sauce. I would have licked the plate, but that would make me appear less of a lady.
After two weeks on the road, it’s so wonderful to be home! I brought back many good memories, and I’m ready to make some new ones.
Stone Brewing Japanese Green Tea IPA – had it last night. Adding green tea to the second dry hop and calling it a green tea IPA? It doesn’t work that way! There wasn’t a hint of green tea in the aroma or flavor. A delicious, wonderfully hoppy IPA nonetheless. I’ll be working through the rest of these soon!
I’m also on the hunt for a good DigiSLR under $1200. Any recommendations? I’m gonna get all professional and stuffs. And then I’ll drink more beer!
Stay tuned for a mass amount of recipes this week! I’m home again and my kitchen needs cooking/baking/sauteing/FOODING!
I just had that green tea beer last week and I wasn’t that big of a fan as well.
SO JEALOUS YOU FOUND LIPS OF FAITH STUFF!
That is all.
Why is their beer named “Friends” in Dutch
And the other one “the craziness” in French?
All off your beers have these crazy names…
Love your site and miss the great beers, especially in the Pacific NW. I would recommend the Nikon D3100 but haven’t looked to see if it is still available in the U.S. I am currently in Asia and bought one for my wife and it was well under your $1200 threshold. She has taken some great photos with it.
It is available! I’m adding it to the list. I have WAY too many cameras to research! Too many megapixel/weight/resolution info to figure out!
This is a personal opinion but I have owned two different Olympus digital cameras and ended up being disappointed with both. The shutter lag compared to the flash resulted in too many photos of people with eyes half closed and occasionally closed completely. Even before we starting drinking beer!
Bek the floodgates are open- my hotmail account is full of wonderful offers from Nigeria and elsewhere- here is another one…arent they so nice to think of little O me!!!
DEBT PAYMENT RECONCILIATION BOARD
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
TAFAWA BALEWA SQUARE, LAGOS
Attn: To whom it may concern
I am Dr.Gobir Mohammed, The chairman, Debt Reconciliation Board,Lagos, Nigeria .There is presently a counter claims on your funds amounting to the sum of USD$1.2Million (One Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Only by one Mr.Khalid Omar, who is presently trying to make us believe that you are dead and further explained that you entered into an agreement with him while on the sick bed, to help you in receiving your approved Scam victim Compensation fund awarded to you by the UNITED-NATION In conjuction with the Nigeria Ministry of Finance.
Here comes the big question.
Are you dead or still alive? And Did you by any reason signed such agreement in favor of (Mr.Khalid Omar)thereby making him the current beneficiary with his following Bank account details:
ACC NAME: Khalid Omar
BANK/NAME: National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah
BANK ADDRESS: Sharjahar,United Arab Emirates
ACCOUNT/NUMBER: 000369505.
We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mr.Khalid Omar, if we do not hear from you within the next five Bank working days from today.
We await your immediate response by Reconfirming your
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
Thanks
Best Regard,
Dr Gobir Mohammed
Director General (Foreign Debt Services
hi Bek, my hotmail account if full of these wonderful offers…here is another!
GOSH its wonderful that people think of little old me and have all this money too……
DEBT PAYMENT RECONCILIATION BOARD
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY
TAFAWA BALEWA SQUARE, LAGOS
Attn: To whom it may concern
I am Dr.Gobir Mohammed, The chairman, Debt Reconciliation Board,Lagos, Nigeria .There is presently a counter claims on your funds amounting to the sum of USD$1.2Million (One Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) Only by one Mr.Khalid Omar, who is presently trying to make us believe that you are dead and further explained that you entered into an agreement with him while on the sick bed, to help you in receiving your approved Scam victim Compensation fund awarded to you by the UNITED-NATION In conjuction with the Nigeria Ministry of Finance.
Here comes the big question.
Are you dead or still alive? And Did you by any reason signed such agreement in favor of (Mr.Khalid Omar)thereby making him the current beneficiary with his following Bank account details:
ACC NAME: Khalid Omar
BANK/NAME: National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah
BANK ADDRESS: Sharjahar,United Arab Emirates
ACCOUNT/NUMBER: 000369505.
We shall proceed to issue all payments details to the said Mr.Khalid Omar, if we do not hear from you within the next five Bank working days from today.
We await your immediate response by Reconfirming your
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
Thanks
Best Regard,
Dr Gobir Mohammed
Director General (Foreign Debt Services
You, kind sir, must be the luckiest person on this planet.
I kid you not