We woke to roosters crowing this morning.  We visited for a while with everybody and had to continue our journey.  

We went off to the Oregon coast to Newport and the Rogue Brewery.  This is one of our favorite brewers of beers.  We arrived in Newport just in time for their 4pm brewery tour.  Rogue is no longer considered a "micro-brew". they produce too much beer.  They are considered a "macro-brew".  We saw several flavors that we haven't seen before.  Their most popular beers are "Dead Guy Ale", a tasty Maibock beer and "Brutal Bitter", a cross between an IPA and ESB.  We were impressed with Rogue and how they recycle.  Much of their waste barley grains after making beer is sent to farmers that use it as animal feed.  They have also recycled used dairy pasteurization tanks from a bankrupt dairy for fermenting beer.  They can have 50 different beers fermenting at one time.  

After the tour, we were in the gift shop looking at some t-shirts ad mentioned to the sales girl we were staying at Rogue's B&B (Bed and Beer).  he asked if we had checked in yet (No, we haven't) and gave us a Rogue discount card!  This gives us 10% off the t-shirts we are buying and 10% off the room!  Cool!  

We went upstairs to the Tasting Room above the brewery.  Of the 20 or so beer they had on tap (all Rogue, of course) we found 8 that we haven't tried before, two of which were high-gravity, Imperial ales.  We got an appetizer of Kobe meat balls with bleu cheese (Blue Balls) and toasted beer bread.  

We headed across the bay to Rogue's Public House and the B&B.  The Public House is the bar and restaurant downstairs and the B&B consists of three furnished apartments upstairs.  We checked in at the bar and went to see the room.  Wow!  We found a large one bedroom apartment with a full kitchen and even a washer and dryer!  Score!  We're getting laundry done too!  And in the fridge was two cold 22oz bottles of Rogue beer.  We took them down to the bar to exchange them for our favorite flavors- mine, Brutal Bitter and Andrew's, Chocolate Stout.  We got out the computers. found a Wi-Fi connection and got some work done with a good beer.  We were across from a working fishing dock, with the smell of salt air and the sounds of seagulls coming in thru the open windows on the Pacific breeze.  With our recently acquired discount card, all this was only $75.00.  Sweeeet!