Brendan Frasier eating a burrito with a hot sauce UZI

3 shitty waves after breakfast at the bar from derp serf on Vimeo.

Pictures

Photos from the past few weeks.

The beeramid was about 100 beers, you can't tell but it is 8 deep or something.


















Dawn patrol last week before high tide madness this week.













Destroyed the Hull on the jetty, this is only half the carnage.













$1,700 worth of parking tickets. Not mine.













Look at all the pretty colors maaaaaaaan.














Douche McGregor stopped at Taco Bell on the way to Kyle's house. I snapped this in the parking lot before I ate a big box. 1 crunch wrap, 1 burrito supreme, 1 volcano taco, cinnamon twists, and a large drink.

2nd Homebrew

So my first issue to Beer Advocate finally arrived in the mail today along with the new Surfer's Journal.

Needless to say, whilst reading the Advocate and sipping a pint of my hombrewed Pale Ale, I decided to brew up another one. This time I went for an American Wheat Beer. Hopefully it turns out as well as the Pale Ale did!

Sorry my photos always suck. Thats why we have Tightgnar on the blog. His photography is actually photography. Mine is just, shitty amateur photos that get the point across.

Beer Advocate Volume II Issue VII

















Mt. Hood Hop Pellets













My set up while the beer brews. Reading, writing, drinking, and watching the Dodger game.

First Homebrew and Dodger Game

I had the first sip of my homebrewed Pale Ale on Friday. Bitchin'! I seriously cannot believe it doesn't taste like ass. The first of many to come. I went to the homebrew supply store and picked up the recipe for an American Wheat Beer, so we have that to look forward to.




































Sunday 12 of us ventured to Chavez Ravine to see Manny Ramirez don some Dodger Blue. We were treated to him going 4 for 5 with 3 RBIs and a home run. He is hitting .615 in his 3 games with the Dodgers. Here is Manny finishing up his trot around the bags.














While I was in line to buy 2 $10 beers, I met some kid in line with a sweet ass tattoo.

Homebrew Part II

So my Pale Ale is still in Primary fermentation. I took some hydrometer readings that past few days and I should be ready to rack it to secondary fermentation tomorrow.

In the meantime, I had the boys over to drink some beers so I could reuse them for my homebrew.

I soaked the bottles in warm water and ammonia to get the labels off easily. Bad call. Warm water and Simple Green next time.

I tasted the beer after I sampled it. I guess it is referred to as 'Green Beer' at this stage because it is not carbonated. It looked like a Hefeweizen, but tasted/smelled like the Pale Ale that it is. The cloudiness will go away with conditioning in secondary fermentation and bottle conditioning.

All is well thus far into the brewing. More updates to come.



















This is a photo of my hydrometer reading. More photos to come. Blogger is being lame.

Kid's Menu

Some of the Svrf & Destroy crew went to Yucatan to enjoy a few ice cold pitchers of PBR. I love the crayons and paper the provide at each table.

Brew #1

On Saturday I brewed my first batch of beer. I opted for a Pale Ale and hopefully everything continues to go smoothly. The whole process took about 4.5 hours from start to finish.

Here are a couple of photos I snapped. It was my first brew so I didn't want to mess around with taking pictures and chance messing something up.

My brew will be in primary fermentation for about a week, then secondary fermentation, then bottle conditioning. So in about a month I will be sipping on some quality homemade brew.

Beer Advocate

During the last year or so I have been drinking a lot of beer. A lot of good, imported, and usually expensive beer ($11.99 for a 750 ml. Chimay Grande Reserve "Bleu"). I go to BevMo once a week and stock up on a few different beers for the week. For example, I will get 4 different Pale Ales and see which one I like best.

Anyways, I just subscribed to Beer Advocate Magazine.


















I also picked up some books on the subject...



































So, hopefully I will be able to start my own homebrew this summer. I was looking into taking a class at Culver City Home Brewing Supply Co. I just need to save up a little cheese and read through there books so I have my fundamentals down.

I was never able to get into wine. It just feels so inaccessible. Whatever. Everyone is into wine these days. Just like everyone is an artist, photographer, musician, graphic designer, hipster, rad dude. I have always felt that a lot of people come off a little bit snobby about it. I think there is much more camaraderie in a nice pint.

Under the Sun

A good pal of the boys here at Svrf & Destroy, Cyrus Sutton, will be showing his new surf film, Under The Sun, at the La Paloma Theater on Thursday July 3 @ 8pm. There will be a little shindig afterwards.

I am at a cross roads...do I go down and see this and crash on Cyrus' couch down in Encinitas and shred Cardiff the next day or go to my first home brewing class in Culver City and buy all my gear and start the brewing of Gnarcoleptic Ale???

Here is the flyer.

Joe Jost's

So myself, doucemcgregor, and Evan went to Joe Jost's last night for some beers, grub, and to shoot some pool.

Anyways, Joe Jost's was the first bar to open its doors in Long Beach, CA in 1924. Anyways, I don't want to digress too far into the history of the place. If you want to know, check out their website, Joe Jost's.

Recently, due to the rising prices of the ingredients needed to brew beer, many breweries have raised their prices, most notably Pabst Blue Ribbon, to many college aged guys. Refusing to raise the price of a beer that Joe Jost's helped make famous in the area, PBR is no longer served. I have been told that Joe Jost's was one of the largest consumers of Pabst Blue Ribbon on the West Coast.

This is what went down. Article from Long Beach Press Telegram, written by Tim Grobaty

JOE JOST'S SWITCHES BRANDS: When you see the iconic schooner of beer that adorns the back of the ubiquitous (in these parts anyway) Joe Jost's T-shirts, white suds cascading over the top of the amber beer, frosty even in its silk-screened form, you have to imagine that it's Pabst. PBR, as it's called by the later-comers who are in too headlong of a rush through life's evenings to spare the time it takes to utter the long form: Pabst Blue Ribbon.

"What'll ya have? Pabst Blue Ribbon, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer" was how the old jingle went. But there's a different answer now to "what'll ya have?" at Joe Jost's, the local home of PBR since 1976, because Joe Jost's has given the low-priced brewski the heave-ho after a dispute over pricing discrepancies, according to the bar's owner Ken Buck.

Last week, Buck's crew poured the last Pabst in the tavern at 2803 E. Anaheim St., where the brand has enjoyed a huge success over the decades. Even before Pabst became the house's entry-level-priced beer, Jost's served Eastside, which was made by Pabst.

It can be argued fairly persuasively that Joe Jost's even made Pabst the locally popular brand that it has become.

"I always try to get the best buy that I can for my customers," Buck told us. "I wasn't getting that from the distributor, and I can't in good conscience continue to sell it anymore."

Customers have been upset - several called us or e-mailed us to report the what they see as the tragic demise of Pabst at one of Long Beach's most popular watering holes. The beer is practically synonymous with the bar, just as important to the Joe Jost's experience, it would seem, as the tavern's pickled eggs and special sausage sandwiches.

Stepping in, now, to replace it as the low-priced ($3.45) schooner at Joe Jost's, is Busch Beer, which, if we can recall that far back, was the first beer we liked, probably because it was so light.

"I like it; it's a clean-tasting beer," said Buck. "I wouldn't sell it if it wasn't good. And it's important that I can get it and sell it at a lower price and I can maintain a low-cost beer.

"Joe Jost's has always been a workingman's bar and I don't want that to change," he said.

We can live with the new beer, but we have some free advice for Ken Buck: Don't mess with the pickled eggs.

Ok. Now that you have read up on the history and the current changes. Lets get to the good stuff.

Basically, I had 3 Schooners of Busch, a special (hotdog, swiss, mustard on rye), a handful of pretzels, and 5 pickled eggs. Bear in mind that everything but the beer was covered in horseraddish mustard and chased with a few yellow peppers.

Needless to say I am hurtin' today. Not from the beers, but those eggs are killer. I think I have my sodium and cholesterol taken care of for the rest of the year.

But, it was damn worth it because I bought a sweet ass camoflauge Joe Jost's shirt.

This is what people have to say about Joe Jost's @ Yelp.

These are the pickled eggs.

Note:I didn't take either of these two photos. I found them on the interweb. Crucify me.

I Saw the Sign and It Opened Up My Eyes

Go Ped

We fired up Travis' Go Ped this weekend. It had not been ridden in about 8 years. These are going to be the new fixed gears.

Burke-zerk

Here he is. Mr. Seal Beach himself. Mark Burke...going Burke-zerk as usual. Today he told me that the surf woke him up at 5am. He knew it was going to be good. If you think you have surfed good Seal. Think again. Burke was already on it before you got there...and it was better.

Go visit him at Yucatan and order a pitcher of PBR. That's what the Surf and Destroy boys do.

Any of you fixed gear or single speed fools out there. Race day is rapidly approaching. $10 entry fee (goes to the WWF, not wrestling, The World Wildlife Foundation).

Prizes for top 5 finishers in Men, Women, and 2 man team divisions.

10am at Mother's Beach in Long Beach on Easter Sunday.

Be there! Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

Peddler 2008

I checked out the Peddler down in Seal Beach today. Very wild.

How hard do you party?

Mmmmmmmmm

Samuel Smith rules.


















The Taddy Porter and the Nut Brown Ale also rule.