What are you drinking?

[Polaris]

Lost Abbey is fantastic. I have not had enough of their beers yet to rank them yet, but they're itching to make the grade. I heard their tasting room is directly across from a police station, which is a bit disconcerting given how one beer in San Diego will probably put you over the legal limit.

Yeah...I love Road Warrior...without even trying it, I walked about with a whole case from the brewery (26 dollars for 24 beers on 9% ABV was a fantastic deal). It's fantastic.....I also had their Citra IPA on location and it was great.

Whenever you have the chance with IPAs, go cask. It really brings out the flavors....had a fantastic double IPA with grapefruit zest on cask at Rough Draft. Warmer is also better for IPAs unless you want to minimize the hop flavor....too warm and it turns into a burn which happened when we got a Mission Brewery (San Diego proper) keg delivered warm last year.

I had Mother Earth once when I was in Vista, but unfortunately it was a cream ale, which is my least favorite beer style and it tasted terrible.

Firestone Walker along with Maui Brewing makes my top 5 in America, but the only beer, Chainbreaker IPA, I had from Deschutes was utterly orgasmic.


Oh and I just had a Miller Fortune....really glad they went with the pry-off bottle only so I can use it for my homebrewing bottling collection of maybe 200 bottles.

I still remember the first San Diegan beer I had, the Islander IPA from Coronado Brewing Company....

Yeah, unfortunate what happened to Matt at Stone...the brewer who died in the forlift accident last year....his cherrywood smoked saison is the best I have ever had and I usually don't like that style at all.