WTF is with this bleeping weather?

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Car seats are overrated.

[Tank]

so you'er upset that your wife was hugging your newborn?

[Amazing Larry]

Adam is a bad father.

[Homebrewer]

Damn...it's f'n cold up here in the mountains. 

[Sully151]

100 pages! Congrats A.O. You did it! Now we can officially welcome El Niño.

[Angel Oracle]

Frost on the roofs and yards in my neighborhood this morning

[Homebrewer]

Frost never thawed here today....had to use my custom-made wooden wedge, for the first time this year, to get the car door open.

Had it ready and waiting, as I knew the day was coming when it would be frozen solid.

[nando714]

It's cold

[nando714]

I hope it doesn't rain January 9th in mission bay san diego. I get married that day and the ceremony is outside!!

[Homebrewer]

18 here last night.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Homebrewer, I'll be up in the Bass Lake area for New Years weekend, is there snow on the ground up there or in Yosemite Valley? But most importantly, how's the brewery there in Oakhurst?

[Homebrewer]

That's funny, I was just talking to someone else here that asked me about Southgate Brewing.

The beer and food are really good...but like so many newer places, they have bare floors and hard walls that make the place pretty noisy when it's busy, which is most of the time. They are good people, and I've worked with the brew master there on some recipes and specialty malts. Stop and get a couple of growlers to take to the cabin, or wherever you are staying.

 

Oh yeah, the valley has snow on the ground, and although I haven't been over to bass lake since summer, I'm pretty sure there is at least some snow there too. Roads should be clear, though. There are a couple more fronts coming through next week too, and snow levels have been down around 3500-4000.

Carry chains. You may not need to put them on, but you want to have them in your vehicle for CHP, .  

[nate]

Homebrewer, I'll be up in the Bass Lake area for New Years weekend, is there snow on the ground up there or in Yosemite Valley? But most importantly, how's the brewery there in Oakhurst?

 

I love the Oakhurst/Bass Lake area.  Shaver and Huntington are awesome as well.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

That's funny, I was just talking to someone else here that asked me about Southgate Brewing.

The beer and food are really good...but like so many newer places, they have bare floors and hard walls that make the place pretty noisy when it's busy, which is most of the time. They are good people, and I've worked with the brew master there on some recipes and specialty malts. Stop and get a couple of growlers to take to the cabin, or wherever you are staying.

 

Oh yeah, the valley has snow on the ground, and although I haven't been over to bass lake since summer, I'm pretty sure there is at least some snow there too. Roads should be clear, though. There are a couple more fronts coming through next week too, and snow levels have been down around 3500-4000.

Carry chains. You may not need to put them on, but you want to have them in your vehicle for CHP, .  

 

Their beer selection looks limited, although that's only me looking on their website. Maybe they have more specialty or seasonals not listed.  Noise is good since my kids will be in tow and they make plenty as is.  Growlers are a good call.

[Homebrewer]

If you guys ever have a chance go a little farther up... to Mono  Hot Springs sometime.

 

 

http://www.monohotsprings.com/

[Homebrewer]

I haven't been to Oakhurst for a while, it's an hour+ drive for me, and if I'm going to do that, the valley floor is the same distance and there are Costco's and In n Outs there.

I've kinda gotten to not like Oakhurst much, but I have lived up here for a while.

[Angel Dog and Beer]

Yeah, I've only stopped in Oakhurst a couple times on our way to Yosemite. I have no idea what else is around there and where to go. We've stayed at Tenaya a couple times, and now doing Bass lake. Mono area sound nice, that may have to be our next camping trip.

[Homebrewer]

Their beer selection looks limited, although that's only me looking on their website

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Everything is 'a little limited" up in these parts! It's what you sacrifice for some wide open spaces and a slower pace.

That's why I got back into brewing after moving up here full time.

If you want stuff up here, you pretty much need to do it yourself.

[Homebrewer]

If you want to camp up there at the hot springs (the cabins are great but it can get a little spendy with 3 day minimums)

Take a look at this page and make reservations as soon as possible when they open for reservations.

It'll  be a nice change for you, if you've been camping up in the park (Yosemite)

 

 

http://www.monohotsprings.com/campgrounds/

[nate]

Oakhurst just has a lot of antique shops and not much else.

[Homebrewer]

....and a casino that's closed because the Indians were fighting over it, at gunpoint (seriously)and the government has found all kinds of suspicious and illegal financial activity connected to it.

Actually... the casino is technically in Coarsegold..

 

But yeah...Oakhurst is really just kind of funky in a lot of ways, and there really isn't anything much there.

[Amazing Larry]

Back on topic... it's fricken freezing here Mr. Bigglesworth.

Possibly dropping into the 30's tonight. This is not why I pay obscene California taxes dammit!

[Angel Oracle]

Still waiting for real rainfall to hit SoCal.

Take it away Judge Smails.

"Welllll, we're waiting!"

[Homebrewer]

Warmed up..  got to be up near 30 .... downright balmy after the past few mornings. 

2 storm systems on tap over the next 5-6 days.

Keep em coming, el nino.

[Homebrewer]

AO, you will get them in Jan-Feb when the jet stream moves a little farther south.

This is typical for normal So-Cal winters.