Category Archives: Cider

BevMo! Holiday Beerfest 2010

In some ways, I envy my beer bloggers living to the north of me. They seem to have access to all the latest beers days, if not weeks, in advance before I even catch wind of them. Not only that, … Continue reading

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2010 Triple Rock Firkin Festival Tomorrow

Triple Rock Brewery in Berkeley is having their Annual Firkin Festival tomorrow. What’s a firkin you say? Well, in “olden times”, it was an English unit of measurement equal to “a fourth of a barrel”. So, depending on who was … Continue reading

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2009 Microbreweries Battling Breast Cancer Brewfest Recap

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Firestone Walker 12 at Toronado Recap

It wasn’t until this afternoon that I took a look at this post again and I completely omitted any mention of me having tried Firestone Walker’s XII. Thanks to Nicole, I was able to sample a little bit of “12″ … Continue reading

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Gravenstein apples make good humble pie

I thought I’d take a break and write about something not related to my San Diego trip. I’ll plan on having the next San Diego related post up by very late tonight but enjoy this diversion until then.

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