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This is a rough day and too hot. Going to fill up and then make like a tree...and get out of here!

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Got a matcha latte at Sbux. Cup was under filled and little clumps of matcha power in the bottom of the cup. 🙁 beer never lets me down like that. (Yes I know sometimes people find a glob of who knows what at the bottom of a can, but that’s not the same
 

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Hb’d Hoppy Black Lager - 6.2% abv with Simcoe, Citra, and Sabro hops.

This beer’s grainbill is a cross between a Schwartzbier and a Cold IPA using Rice solids and lager yeast to ferment. Pretty darn good so far for only being carbed for a day lol View attachment 876665
Sounds very interesting!!
 
San Diego’s Latitude 33° Blood Orange India Pale Ale – Wow, that’s a mouthful! Actually, anything this orange should be – what – India “Orange” Ale? Me thinketh not!

On the map, Latitude 33 actually goes through Solana Beach, just North of San Diego. It’s a name befitting this great brewery. In the spirit of this and all those other great breweries in the West Coast Brewing Mecca that is San Diego, I say, well done!

Blood Orange is a 7.2% ABV in one of my favorites – a 19.2 ounce stovepipe of a can! This is the way to ship beer folks, I’m so pleased that many of the breweries are now offering these in bigger cans. The 12 ouncers just seem so babyish and infantile these days. Worse yet are the Euro wimp beers in their 11.2 ounce form. What’s next? 8 oz Ponies again? Go big or go home! Enjoy… !

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Yep, still my favorite bourbon.
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I wouldn’t really call myself a bourbon connoisseur. I’ll typically drink one bottle over the course of a year, usually Woodford. This last time I bought the double oaked version, but I really don’t care for it all that much. Just too in your face oaky. When this is finished I’m switching back to the non-oak version.
 
I wouldn’t really call myself a bourbon connoisseur. I’ll typically drink one bottle over the course of a year, usually Woodford. This last time I bought the double oaked version, but I really don’t care for it all that much. Just too in your face oaky. When this is finished I’m switching back to the non-oak version.
I agree, I did the Kentucky bourbon trail about 15 years ago, what an experience. Not saying I'm a connoisseur either but I know a thing or 2.. I don't drink it as often as I used to, just don't drink that much hard liquor in general anymore, but of all the ones we went to Woodford just stood out to me and has been my go to bourbon ever since.
 
Today I’m drinking another San Diego brew, Mt. Pils by Modern Times Beer. I really enjoy a beer that “puts all its specs on the can,” you could nearly brew this with all the information stated:

Pilsner Malt, Saaz & Tettnanger hops, 34 IBU with a Final Gravity of 1.008, 4 SRM, 4.8% ABV. Plug all this this into Brewer’s Friend, fiddle a couple numbers and you have your Pilsner recipe!

Tasty and spritzy, Mt. Pils is an easy drinking American Pilsner - It’s so great to see these being brewed locally! Available in those fantastic 19.2 ounce stovepipes, finally a can with enough volume to satisfy my thirst. Well, until beer #2 that is! Now if we could only get San Diego’s Alesmith Anvil Pilsner in this size! Prost, dude!

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HB pale ale. It’s been a minute because I’ve had a sick pet and that really puts a damper on the beer drinking.
She’s doing better, but mad about the medication and even more mad about the copious bald spots.
So here I am having a beer and plotting a pils brewday soon.
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