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Quick Summer Updates (Port Brewing, Ballast Point, Contreras)

I’ve been pretty wrapped up in everything except writing these days, including a recent obsession with Chess, trying to get back into gardening regularly, working, and playing music a few times a week.  As usual I’ve had plenty of time to try lots of new beers, so instead of letting these new ones sit in [...]

Newsflash: Local Brew Dog Slammed, Bombed by American Hops (Bell’s Hopslam, Port Brewing Hop 15)

On a trip out to the west coast a few months back, I firmly and finally fell in love with the insanity of American IPA and DIPA styles.  Green Flash’s “West Coast IPA” was my first love, and since then, I’ve tried to sample as many examples of the style as possible.  Two of these [...]