Another great beer festival at Irvine Lake. The second annual (hopefully) Orange County Beer Festival was held on May 15 instead of August like the previous year, and that resulted in much cooler weather.
I went with a friend and two designated drivers (always good to have a backup at an event like this in [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Life is good. I scored with an impulsive cigar purchase, and I scored with tonight’s random pairing.
Partagas Black Label Pronto (4 3/16″ x 36)
The impulsive purchase in question was a box of Partagas Black Label Prontos. You need to understand that I don’t buy boxes of cigars. There are just too many great cigars out [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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For the next 17 hours (until about 5:00 a.m. on May 13, 2010), you can buy tickets to the Orange County Beer Festival for just $20. Go here for the discount. Thanks to Dale Conjurski for the link.
Posted on May 12th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Hey Federal Trade Commission. You’re telling me and all the other bloggers that if we get paid for an endorsement, we damn well better disclose that fact, or face a penalty of $11,000. Well no one has ever paid me for an endorsement, and if they ever had I wouldn’t need you to tell me [...]
Posted on May 11th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Dixie Jazz Amber Light
I picked this one at random, not even noticing it was a light beer. It’s a great concept, giving you the option of a light amber beer when you want to save a few calories (just 92.5 calories). And the taste did not disappoint. It pours dark, with a nice foam [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Any app that can help with the task of finding and researching beer is okay in my book. I found a couple that now hold places of honor on my iPhone.
The problems with so many iPhone apps that rely on data bases is that the data is so sparse that they little more than novelties. [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Always drink responsibly.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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No doubt you’ve heard of Gray Powell, even if you don’t recognize the name. He’s the guy that allegedly left the super-secret iPhone prototype at a German beer garden in Redwood City, California. Making matters worse, he supposedly posted the following tweet right before leaving said item at the beer garden:
“I underestimated how good German [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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I always cringe when I hear someone complaining how America should provide some new entitlement to its citizens, using the argument that some other industrialized country does it. [Cue the patriotic music.] This is America, damn it, and we should be taking our own path. In our first 200 years we put a man on [...]
Posted on April 8th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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Temperatures in Southern California are back in the 80s. The motorcycle is back on the road and the Lido Deck was singing its siren’s song. Time for a pairing of beer and cigar.
Sol Cubano Cuban Cabinet, Magnum (6.0″ x 50)
I went to my humidor with no particular stick or style in mind, but was [...]
Posted on March 16th, 2010 by Aaron Morris
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