Found myself as a guest at the 8Eightyeight Diamond Crown Lounge again, courtesy of Dale Conjurski, a real humanitarian. The occasion was a tasting of five Belgian-style beers from an Orange County brewery called The Bruery. The misspelling is a play on words because the Rue family owns the brewery – bRUEry, get it? According [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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The warm Santa Ana winds have returned to Southern California, so I grabbed a strong torch lighter, cigar and beer and headed for the veranda. Ashton VSG Robusto (5.5 x 50) Stealing liberally from the Ashton website, the Ashton VSG (Virgin Sun Grown) was rolled for the first time in the late 1990s, and was [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2009 by Aaron Morris
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I was invited by a buddy to join him at a beer tasting at the Diamond Crown Lounge in Fullerton, California. Beers from the Alaskan Brewing Company are among my favorites, and this happened to be a tasting of beers from that brewery. I’ll rate the beers some other time, but I wanted to talk [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Aaron Morris
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Backstreet Brewery A few days after finishing our reviews of four other breweries, just when we were missing our weekly excuse to pub crawl, we came across the Backstreet Brewery in Irvine. There are eight of these breweries around Southern California, made a part of Lamppost Pizza joints. ST and I were immediately impressed with [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2008 by Aaron Morris
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Beer has always been important to America. One of Thomas Jefferson’s first acts was to pass legislation to ensure a healthy beer industry in the United States. And although there were local craft beers in the early days, with the industrial age came the sort of tasteless, Budweiser-style beers that continued well in the 1970s. [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Aaron Morris
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