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Island Brewing Company
I’ve featured Island Brewing Company a few times on my blog, and even used their growlers to bottle condition my very first brew – Dos Beckis. Today, for the very first time, I got a tour of the...
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Solvang, California
Today I took a road trip with my lovely parental unit up to Solvang – a ridiculously touristy Danish village that you must visit exactly once every seven years. Seven years ago, we visited. Today, we...
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Happy 2012!!!
Happy New Year to all! I hope you all had a wonderful, safe holiday! I spent my evening sipping a homemade hot toddy, coughing up a storm and watching In Bruges. Not quite the successful evening we’d...
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Porter Tasting
Before our porter tasting up in Santa Barbara, Gray and I met up at Island Brewing Company in Carpinteria for an ocean view and a preparatory pint. A beautiful day, as usual, on the coast. I got a...
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Quarter Century
As of yesterday, I’m officially old. My age times four equals 100. My knees ache. I’m officially twenty-five years old! I started off the day in the traditional way. Eggs Portugal! Nothing like a...
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Birthdays, Engagements and Breweries
Having a full time job plus working another job on the weekend makes for… no time for anything else in the world, like blogging. Or sleeping. Forgive me for my absence, but I took pictures to make up...
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Patty Melts and Beer Studies
Some of the random things I’ve been doing this past week: One of my nostalgic favorite places to eat: The Waypoint Cafe at the Camarillo Airport. My parental unit and I used to go here at least once a...
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A Visit from the Chive
It’s been a while, I know. I was kidnapped and taken to a ridiculously beautiful (not abandoned) hotel on the beach for my birthday, forced to consume lots of delicious foods and try new beers, then...
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You Say Goodbye…
Now begins the final week of my employment in California! It’s a crazy thought, but I am so excited to get to my land of craft beer, flannel shirts and snowcapped mountains. I began my farewells last...
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Memory Lane (plus Giveaway Winners!)
I had an amazing five days in California seeing wonderful friends! I must say, I miss the 80 degree weather while sitting on the patio at Ladyface and the gorgeous sunsets from the beachfront hotel...
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