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Happy Birthday America: July 4th Roundup (Jolly Pumpkin, Lagunitas, Chelsea, Captain Lawrence)

July 4th is the supreme beer and meat holiday, automatically putting it in the running with my favorite holidays of all time.  Add in fireworks, copious sweets, great weather, and a bunch of friends outside of the city that oppresses us all so regularly, and you have a recipe for a hell of a time.  [...]

Two More Stone (with some help) Killers (Stone/Jolly Pumpkin/Nogne Holiday Beer & Cali-Belgique)

San Diego’s Beer Mecca status is well established.  Ask anyone who has been there or has spent more than a couple hours there, and they will tell you: “The weather is perfect” and “The Beer is amazing.”   Scientists are now trying to bottle San Diego sunshine and export it around the world, for more [...]

Infected Sessions (Jolly Pumpkin Calabaza Blanca)

Didn’t really mean for “Infected Sessions” to turn into a “series” like “Life is Beautiful” has, but, well, there ya go — not much else is planned around here anyway. Jolly Pumpkin is one of my favorite American Breweries and they have all the characters that a classic, high quality micro-brewery should posess, including a [...]

The dog that wouldn’t die (Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biere Farmhouse Ale)

The side of the bottle of Bam Biere, Jolly Pumpkin’s Farmhouse Ale, tells the story of a dog who got hit by a car and bounced right back. To me, this brew is a lot like that. I was lucky enough to grab a few bottles of this earlier in the year when [...]