Tonight’s Tasting: Zino Classic No. 8 and He’Brew Genesis Ale

Had a great motorcycle ride today, and had planned to have a beer at the ending point, Irvine Lake. Unfortunately the 500 other riders had the same idea, and the line for beer stretched most of the way to Arizona. I don’t do lines, so I contented myself with a brew at home. He’Brew Genesis […]

Ride The Coast 2009

Today was my third time going on the annual Ride the Coast charity ride to raise money for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Ana.  This is one of my favorite rides every year because it is entirely police escorted.  The ride is relatively short — just 70 miles this year — but from start to […]

Why are comments moderated? Notes on blog spam.

I typically get about 30 comments a day on my blog postings, which would be great except for the fact that the vast majority of those comments are spam.  These aren’t the “buy Viagra” type of spam you find in your email, but are attempts to look like real comments.  See, behind the comment is an internal link […]

Tequila and Cigars at the 8Eightyeight Diamond Crown Lounge

Wednesday was another great night at the 8Eightyeight Diamond Crown Lounge in Fullerton, California.  Tonight featured a tasting of Cabo Wabo Tequila and, as you can see from the photo, the fine people at Cabo Wabo were nice enough to bring along some spokes-models. My only complaint is the size of the samples offered.  No, it’s […]

Tonight’s Tasting: God of Fire by Don Carlos and Out of Bounds Stout

I have never experienced such a perfect convergence of cigar smoke, beer, music and weather. Allow me to set the scene. It’s a gorgeous Friday evening in Southern California. The kids are off somewhere with the wife, and I exit my convertible in the garage and grab a beer from my beer fridge as I […]

Tonight’s Tasting: Padilla Obsidian and Arrowhead Spring Water

Had a great workout just before retiring to the Lido deck, so I decided to skip the beer.  I didn’t want to pollute my healthy body with alcohol, so I went with just water and a cigar, which provides only carbon monoxide, nicotine, hydrogen cyanide, ammonia, volatile aldehydes, benzene, aromatic amines, vinyl chloride, ethylene oxide, […]

Another great tasting at 8eightyeight diamond crown lounge

Last night’s tasting was sponsored by the fine people that make Oliva (oh-lee-va) cigars.  A bunch of door prizes were given out, but I didn’t win a thing.  I think the fix was in. I love the draft beer at this place.  I generally switch between the Stella Artois and the Alaskan Amber.  Full size pints […]