Hawksbill Jim

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USAF Cold War vet. Five years in Berlin, where I learned to love beer. I’ll sometimes post about my brewery in Luray, Virginia!

Our cat Pink, round and at rest.
Four spoiled rescue cats await their breakfast, which is two minutes late.
Faked photo of Trump signing an order that says Pineapple goes on pizza
Buster Barncat lurking on the counter top where he doesn’t belong.
Looking down at the cockpit of the Air France Concord at the Udvar Hazy Air and Space Museum.
The red cat named Pink has been napping on the radiator and has eased into a strange position where he is hanging off of it.
A red cat relaxing on a warm radiator.
Contains thumbnail photos of 90+ books read in 2025.
Meme of Trump napping in the White House. It quotes him “Listen up Liberals”…ends with “…falls asleep”
A look down one of the Cascade rows in our first hops growing year, 2015.
Pen Druid fermentation opened in Sperryville in 2015.
Open house at Hawksbill Hopyards with Tin Cannon brewery and Pen Druid brewery.
A cascade hop plant beginning to flower.
One of our high achiever hop bines reaching the top of the trellis. Likely of the Cascade variety.
Our buckwheat cover crop, planted for the pollinators that shared the farm with Hawksbill Hopyards.
Here’s a row of hops strung with coir rope to support their growth - this is a row of Chinook hops.
Me up on the platform we used for stringing our hop bines. Hops grow vertically 14-20 feet during their season, and the strings provide support for their growth.
A pickup truck drives through a hayfield in the Shenandoah Valley while displaying two rainbow flags.
Our first Cascade sprout at Haeksbill Hopyards - back in 2016!
David and Dan talking about growing hops on a 1-acre scale. Still a very small operation!
Hawksbill Hopyards, at one acre, was one of the largest hopyards in Virginia in 2016, so we had the Virginia Tech ag extension (the group in the photo) come to Luray for a tour.
Here’s a photo of me measuring out airplane cable we used to construct the hopyard trellis.
Building the trellis for the hopyard - attaching cables to the 14-foot poles.
Here’s Mary in the borrowed Caterpillar bulldozer we used to clear the hopyard.
Here’s Pink the cat. He got wigged out during four days of repair work in the house. Emergency vet visit for calming meds and he’s better now.
My last beer in Munich, June 2024. A Paulaner hefeweiss.
A refreshing Hacker Pschorr beverage during a break from hiking in the Alps.
The ski lift up into the Alpine hiking park
A Weihenstephan Helles bottle in a Munich grocery store.
Features of the Nymphenburg Garden in Munich - lake with geese and a cupola.
Budvar for sale in bottles at the Munich beer store. Earlier I wrote of my question to find it vom fass in Prague.
Beer shopping in Munich, a Lowenbrau bottle.
Bottle and mug of Tegernseer Helles backyard in Munich. Glassware is from my brewery in Luray, VA!
Outside at the beer garden in Salzburg.
This fountain looks like a baptismal font. It’s where you rinse your stein before they fill it with an Augustiner bier in Salzburg.
A photo of me outside of the Augustiner brewery in Salzburg.
A view of the Sternbrau beer garden in Salzburg.
We had this amazing chocolate cake and lattes at Cafe Sacher in Salzburg.
The Munich Augustiner beer I had with dinner in Salzburg.
A Stiegl brau and pretzel in their bier garten, Cathedral in the background.
Entry to Salzburg’s Stiegl Keller at the foot of the fortress mountain.
In the background the Salzburg fortress; the Stiegl Keller is carved out of the mountain below.
Photo of a dark wheat beer in a Stiegl glass at dinner in Salzburg.