Tag Archives: California Beer
November 10-Chocolate Porter-Thanks Carey and Joanna Read
I have two friends married to each other named Carey and Joanna Read. They are both great lovers of beer and have educated me on some great brews and breweries this past year. They very generously shared with me a beer from Hangar 24 Craft Brewery in Redlands California called Chocolate Porter. This beer is […]
November 4-Nightime Ale with Ron Brown
Had a great night with my next door neighbors tonight talking about beer, children, and Christmas parades. We live on a street in a small North Carolina town that some would consider the main drag. Each November on the Saturday before Thanksgiving the Christmas parade comes right in front of our homes. Tonight our neighbors […]
October 23-Hop Ottin IPA
Grabbed a California Beer tonight from Anderson Valley Brewery called Hop Ottin IPA. Anderson Valley is located in Boonville, CA and is a solar powered brewery. This beer is excellent and I would tell anyone that is a fan of IPA to drink this beer. Rate Beer and Beer Advocate give it excellent reviews. Hop […]
October 20- Drink by 10/31/14 IPA-Kenny Biggs
What a great Monday night. My next door neighbor Kenny Biggs treated me to a world class California Beer from Stone Brewing called “Drink before 10/31/14 IPA”. This IPA is perfect and warrants it’s rating of 100 by Rate Beer. Stone is located in Escondido, CA. If this is the last beer I drink in […]
October 17-Red Seal Ale
Went with a California beer tonight from North Coast Brewing out of Fort Bragg CA called Red Seal Ale. It contains 5.5% ABV and is a pale ale. Beer Advocate and Rate Beer give this high marks and so do I. http://www.northcoastbrewing.com
September 27-Pliny the Elder-Joanna Read
This past weekend has been a blast attending a SEC football game at Auburn AL. Our group of nine made a full day out of it by getting to the stadium 6 hours before kick-off and taking in all the pageantry and campus atmosphere that is college football in the south. We still had time […]
September 24-Spring Horning
Another opportunity to sample a California beer from a new brewery for me. The brewery is Anderson Valley Brewing Company out of Boonville CA. Boonville is a town of about 1,000 located in Northern California’s Mendocino County. Founded in 1987, the Anderson Valley Brewing Company brewed out of a 10-barrel brewhouse, located in the lower […]
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