Odds and Ends

First, an update on the petition: 301 signatures and counting! I've gotten support from a growing number of bloggers, so a shout out to Metroblogging and Homeless on the High Desert. If you haven't signed, consider this yet another call to action. (What action?--read about it here.)

Go sign it now.

Now, onto beer business. I'll be looking back at 2007 this week, including naming my second annual best beer of the year. My two, loose rules are that the beer had to be new (though not necessarily released in '07), and had to be brewed by an Oregon brewer. So could a Walking Man beer from '06 win?--probably. We'll see if a compelling example arises. Below are some of the beers that lept out at me.

• Raccoon Lodge Baltic Porter
• Double Mountain IRA
• Full Sail Lupulin (their fresh hop ale)
• BridgePort Hop Harvest (fresh hop)
• New Old Lompck Star of India (fresh hop)
• Hair of the Dog Jim II
• Roots Habenero Stout
• Hopworks Kentucky Christmas
• Widmer Decorator
• Caldera Cauldron Brew

What did I miss? Which of these did you think was the best?

(Sorry I don't have that handy polling feature so you could just vote--but it's only available in the new Blogspot designs. So you'll have to vote in comments or via email.)