My five year plan is to visit, and thereby sample the wares of, every microbrewery in the state of California. I include the ‘big boy” craft brewers since the goal is drinking beer not business profiling. That being said, if they have multiple breweries, I consider one stop at one brewery a fulfillment of my goal.*

These are my personal ramblings about beer and should, in no way, be construed as the last word on either the subject or locations mentioned. And, since we are in the disclaimer business, let me just say two things... one, it is a lot easier to start up a webpage than an actual brewery and, two, when you are going headfirst into Chapter 11 the last thing you worry about is closing out your website. Combine that with the general uncertainty of the information highway and you won’t be overly dismayed when you track down a brewery and find it either DOA or something completely different as they say.

All these dire warnings and disclaimers will, of course, fall by the wayside every time you find that cozy little brewpub in some out-of-the-way burg where the food is good and the beer is great…

*See the amendment to this plan at the bottom of the February 26,2012 blog post...

Friday, August 13, 2010

CAIFORNIA DOT GETS IN THE WAY…

All kinds of strange and curious things conspire to slow the pursuit of the glorious but elusive brewski. Last night we had plans to snatch Tama from the jaws of work and head up into the hills to the Boulder Creek Brewing Co. in, oddly enough, Boulder Creek, California, just a few miles north of Santa Cruz. All went well until we got a handful of miles north on State highway 9… oops, the road is completely closed until mid-October. There are alternate routes to be sure but they were all on the map we didn’t throw in the car prior to departure so we elected to go another time. Instead we hit a local BBQ joint for smokey bits & pieces of Mr. Cow and Mr. Pig.

Tonight we head south to Marina and Monterey for 3 other microbreweries.

Here’s hoping the road is open and not too cluttered right after work…

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