An oasis this weekend between the end of college hoops and the NFL Draft and NBA Playoffs: the international Craft Brewers Conference and World Beer Cup competition is being held this week here in San Diego.
For reasons here inexplicable, San Diego has carved out a nice little niche’ for itself in the world of craft/microbrew beers. To wit, Ratebeer.com’s ranking of the planet’s top 100 beers places 19 of them from SD county. Not too shabby, eh?
The conventional wisdom is that Karl Strauss got the ball rolling towards San Diego becoming a microbrew mini-mecca which would be ironic, in our opinion, as we’ve never been big fans of Karl’s beer. Now the pork chops at his restaurant, on the other hand…? Anyway, we’re partial to Ballast Point, Pizza Port (Solano Beach) and particularly Stone, makers of Arrogant Bastard Ale as in-town brews.
Maybe we’ll see you down there.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Life has Meaning once again
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Dean,
They feature Ballast Point Yellowtail Pale Ale at the little club on Ballast Point. Or at least they used to. We ought to hit that place for lunch some day.
As JMr and I have a hefe weizen, he pointed out to me, it was he, not Toey that pointed out the "obey" andre the giant reference. We need JmR to also be part of this post for his your perspectictive,
Love Dawg and JmR, on the laptop, wishn you the best, Can you believe we are around the corner from Mattohuttic and there is no response?
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