Smoke or Fire!?

At an awesome restaurant and look what's going down! Playing our favorite drinking game, Smoke or Fire. Sent from my mobile phone.

Smoke or Fire Drinking Game

So here's the basics: shuffle and deal to each person asking the round question:
1st Card/Round (worth one drink - you guess it and give out a drink or if you're wrong, take a drink): Smoke or Fire (Black or Red)? The card goes to the player face up.
Proceed to all players.
2nd Card/Round (worth two drinks, if guessed correctly you give out two drinks or you take two drinks if wrong): Higher or Lower? This is relevant to the first card dealt. If the card is the same, the player drinks double (4 drinks).
3rd Card/Round (worth 3 drinks): Inside or out? This is related to the first two showing cards. If the card dealt duplicates a showing card, the player doubles (6 drinks).
4th Card/Round: Choose your suit? This is unrelated to any other cards showing and is worth 4 drinks.
Next, cards are flipped by each player. It would be a good idea if you try to remember some of the cards out there. The dealer makes a five level pyramid then proceeds to deal out the remainder cards until everyone has an equal number of cards. If any excess cards, add them to the pyramid.
The pyramid is basically a round of bullshit. The base row is worth 1 drink, second row worth 2 drinks, etc. The dealer flips a card starting at the bottom row. If you tell another player to drink one, you are basically telling that player you have that particular card. Of course, you can lie. If they catch your lie and call bullshit, you drink double. If they call bullshit and you were true to your word, show your card and they drink double.
Let's say you're on the second row and you have two cards of the one in show. Well, since each of those cards is worth 2 drinks, you can give out 4 drinks.
Happy Drinking Games!

Ballast Point Brewery Tour

First stop on the tour was Ballast Point. They have two locations. This is the first time I've been to their new location. I visit their original facility on a regular basis since it is also my local homebrew shop (Homebrew Mart). Their new facility is significantly larger and their tap room is open later than most. Ballast Point does provide a discount to QUAFF members (10%) which is always nice. Next, we're headed to the Tap Room in PB followed by the Blind Lady Ale House. Sent from my mobile phone.

SD Brew Experience

A group of friends headed down to San Diego to hang out and sample some of San Diego's beers, and they brought a bus with them! The beer bus was scheduled for the evening so that limits our destinations to mostly pubs. This is a 20 person bus and their rates are reasonable. Sent from my mobile phone.

Hop Farm, May 25 2009

Worked on the farm yesterday (May 24th): routine weeding, replanted the bottom section of chinook (Michelle), and rewired the top row. The productive chinook plants began flowering as expected. Two of the plants have been providing a full season of harvest (June-September) for the past 3 years. Rabbits have been chewing on the tips of several mounds but maintaing a bushy-base is working so far. It tends to buffer the center vines while "trimming" the excess that I would have done anyway. *Important tip: Once the tip is damaged, the vine will no longer continue to grow. Irrigation scheudle from last month continues to be sufficient considering the soil is ideally moist. Some nutrient (chicken shit) is still present from last year on most mounds (noticebale when digging up rebar stakes for reinforcing trellis wires). As always, there's more work to do in the upcoming weeks but not much more than routine maintenance and reinforcing the trellis wire for the middle and bottom rows. Michelle had my phone so no photo update this time :-(

Magnum, Hop Farm April 29 2009

I did a bit of work on the farm today. Cleared the remainder of weeds, leveled the soil, replanted two vojvodina mounds, inspected and repaired irrigation (set for 1 hour every 24hrs beginning at 5am), and Michelle mulched all three rows. Still left to do is replant three bottom row chinook mounds, restring several trellis wires, and install some chicken wire or some other form of deterring the wild rabbits. Also, I need to build the box fan dehydrator before harvest. Sent from my mobile phone.