History & Hooch

20/12/2022

Third week of DIY Beer Advent Calendar with Movie Pairing 😍

14/12/2022

Second week of DIY Beer Advent Calendar and Movie Pairing kicked off with Lord Hobo’s Boom Sauce and Die Hard. Yippee-ki-yay, it’s officially the holidays!

08/12/2022

The first six days of my DIY Beer Advent Calendar, paired with holiday movies, was a success!

Good h***h, good movies, good memories 😉

26/10/2022

My first time at the Legendary Corn Maize!! Lowe Family Farmstead Lumberjack Show was all sorts of family fun…made even better with a flask of mulled wine. 😉😜

10/09/2022

Bacon & Beer Fest 2022!!!! 😋😋🤨

06/08/2022

AM detox hike before toxing it up later at the Junkin’ Drunken Wilder Hop Fest at Hops and Pine Guesthouse 😜

16/07/2022

The last phone booth in existence??? Guess where I was today… 😏

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26/06/2022

Perrine Memorial Bridge at sunrise. Spanning the Snake River Canyon at ~1500 ft long, it’s 486 ft above the bottom of the canyon. It’s the 8th tallest bridge in the U.S. & is the only bridge in the U.S. where BASE jumping is legal year round without a permit. Welcome to Twin Falls, Idaho 😊

25/06/2022

Twin Falls Beer Buddy event with and is in the bag! Thanks to for the Irish Death Nitro to go with my butter pecan ice cream!! 😋🤩🍻

21/05/2022

May sojourn to Priest Lake! Wouldn’t be complete without a brewery and cemetery stop, becuz that’s the History & H***h way. 😛

St. Thomas Cemetery in CdA, around 130 yo, had a gorgeous blend of old and new gravestones and has been nicely updated.

Finally made it to Selkirk Abbey in Post Falls, Idaho’s finest Belgian-themed brewery. Had the amazing St. Thomas Black Saison and took a few for the road. And by a few I mean a large, rattly box 😎

15/05/2022

3rd Anniversary celebration at Locking Horns Riverside Restaurant in Horseshoe Bend. Classic venue, gorgeous day 😍

11/05/2022

Spotlight: Johnny Crowe’s Sample Rooms, 1870-1874. Sample Room = Saloon but with drinks sold by the glass instead of bottle. Here’s what the Statesman had to say about it in 1871:

“CONUNDRUM: Why does Johnny Crowe call his place a Sample Room? Because you can go there and sample all the varieties of liquids and ci**rs you will find, and you will discover nothing but the best. We studied out this answer by observing men of enlightened taste who go there to drink, or order home a supply that is fit to bring up a family on.”

Ahhh, days of yore, when a family was brought up on liquor and newspapermen regularly plugged their favorite saloon. 😉

03/05/2022

Spotlight: ye olde Masonic Temple on Boise’s Main St, built in 1894. Yup, we’re talking Freemasons, the oldest fraternal organization / secret society in the world.

Before you blow the dust from your copy of the Da Vinci Code, let me just say that Freemasonry originates with the stonemason guilds of medieval Europe. Think Notre Dame. Does our little brick building on Main represent? You tell me.

For a secret society, the Masons sure made the papers a lot, but as far as I can tell they did nothing more exciting here than hold meetings and the occasional funeral. I found such scintillating headlines as, “Freemasons in Session,” and “Masons Royally Entertained.” Riiiiiiight.

BUT, this week is Cinco de Mayo so I popped into the old temple to have lunch at Coa de Jima. They claim to offer a fresh perspective on Mexican dining – I just know my blackened halibut tacos were delicious, the ambiance was fantastic, and my only regret is that I couldn’t stay for draanks. Looks like I’ll be headed back there soon. 😉

20/04/2022

Love those clear days when you can see all the way to the Owyhees. And bonus! The Old Pen lookin’ fly 😎

16/04/2022

Classic Boise location (Papa Joe’s), local cider from Meriwether Cider House, and a fireside lunch on this rainy Saturday. 🙌🏻🍻😄

22/03/2022

And the wheel goes round 🤔

09/03/2022

Back-to-back saloon ads in the 1863 Idaho Statesman. Priorities 😏

06/03/2022

28/02/2022

MINTINERARIES IS NOW HISTORY & H***H!

IT HAS BEGUN...

29/01/2022

So many quackers on the river today 🦆🦆😃

16/01/2022

Lazy Saturday 😋

17/12/2021

It’s happening! We’re mere minutes away from The grand opening of Mother Earth’s downtown taproom!! 😱🤗

17/12/2021

It’s almost time for White Dog’s Caldwell Grand Opening!!

Today at noon!! Stay until dark to enjoy the amazing lights of Indian Creek Plaza 😉😍

06/11/2021

Stopped in at Idaho’s newest brewery last week - Timber Town in Priest River.

Great historic downtown location, nice ambiance, and fresh beer. What else do you need? Congrats, Timber Town! 😃

10/10/2021

This hike was a tick off the ole bucket list! The B-23 Dragon Bomber crash site at Loon Lake.

It went down in the winter of 1943 and was declared unrecoverable, which makes perfect sense once you’ve hiked your ass out there. 😅

An amazing journey with an incredible destination. Highly recommend.

16/08/2021

There’s something so peaceful about a cemetery in the woods, and such beauty left behind by Idaho’s mining pioneers. 💗

15/08/2021

Rotary Club of Boise's Firkin Frolic is Friday, August 20! Between now and then we're going to be featuring some of our brewers and the firkin tastings they plan on offering up a this event.

Today's Featured Brewer, Mother Earth Brewing, is going to fill their firkin with Tierra Madera Lager with Salt/Lime on the side.

Tickets are going fast and will be limited. $25 in advance, $30 at the door, and on sale now! www.eventbrite.com/e/firkin-frolic-tickets-156180470993

03/08/2021

Aug 2, 1862. First mining excursion into the Boise Basin. George Grimes was killed by hostiles and buried in a prospecting hole.

It took some creative driving but I found the grave, high up on Grimes Pass. In the footsteps of pioneers 🧡

23/07/2021

Road trip to Portland and it’s surprisingly smoke free and mellow…but I haven’t gone downtown yet. 😬

30/05/2021

Boise’s newest mural is coming along, can’t wait to see the end result! 😍

Artist Yulia Avgustinovich

03/05/2021

Solo adventuring at the Sand Dunes until the wind had other ideas. 🌪

Made it to that tiny clump of trees before deciding that death by sandstorm is not how I wanna go out. 😵😅

17/04/2021

Let’s Cheer for Beer event at the gorgeous and historic Nampa Train Depot! Celebrating the 87th anniversary of the end of prohibition 😉

03/04/2021

It’s the first weekend of Idaho Craft Beer Month! Get out and celebrate 🎉 🍻

21/03/2021

Another Belgian Tripel at Blue Pit! 😍

20/03/2021

Drinks at Koto Brewing with Stacy Connelly

04/03/2021

Happy Idaho Day!! The Capitol Building is celebrating 100 years! Have you been there lately?

10/02/2021

What are these mysterious things I found in the Boise Foothills, at Military Reserve? Anyone heard of a Universal Dressing Room??

There are 3, in the middle of nowhere, with signs in English, Spanish, and Braille. Last pic shows how they blend in from a distance.

Help! I’m so intrigued 🤔😁

04/02/2021

New cider release!!! And profits go to the Idaho Black History Museum 🤗

Big news we are SO excited about!

We have collaborated with the Idaho Black History Museum (IBHM) to bring you a brand new cider: Jupiter’s Cider

The cider’s name is based on Jupiter Evans, an enslaved man belonging to Thomas Jefferson. Evans was an integral part of Jefferson’s household and was in charge of the very precise and important work of overseeing the apple-crushing, pressing, and cider-making at Monticello. With this cider we hope to pay tribute to a fellow cider-maker whose history should never be forgotten.

Jupiter’s Cider is a single-varietal made from Newtown Pippin apples, the same apples Evan’s would have used at Monticello during his lifetime. It is a semi-dry “Pét-Nat” style cider, meaning it has undergone secondary fermentation in-bottle to produce small delicate champagne-like bubbles.

All profits from Jupiter’s Cider will go directly to the IBHM to fund their work in supporting the unique cultural fabric of Idaho by telling the often overlooked history of Black Idahoans.

Join us for a Zoom Event where we will do a guided tasting of Jupiter’s Cider with one of Meriwether’s Certified Cider Professionals followed by IBHM’s executive director Phillip Thompson speaking about the contributions Black Americans have made to this country. For more details and to register for this event go to meriwethercider.com/jupiterscider

Bottles are available for pre-order for pick up at either location at https://meriwether-cider.square.site/ or if you live farther afield you can order them to be shipped to you at meriwethercider.com/buycider

24/01/2021

Took a time out from Boise to visit Blue Pit Brewing, Mountain Home’s first brewery. Blue Pit opened last October, is pet friendly (obviously), and serves up some dang good brews. I highly recommend the Mastiff, Belgian Tripel. 😋 With lots of open space, masks, and spread out tables, it felt safe and comfortable. Worth a visit if you’re looking for a quick getaway...with beer. 😛