Street Scene to have good beer after all?

So yesterday morning I complained that I’d be stuck drinking crap beers at Street Scene while others were enjoying great beers at the San Diego Festival of Beer.
The Street Scene organizers must’ve been reading, because they announced yesterday afternoon that Street Scene will feature a “MicroBrewery Festival” with 12 local, regional and national breweries pouring [...]

Blind devotion

You know what it’s like when you get a new CD and love it so much you can’t stop listening to it even though you know that if you listen too much you’ll just get sick of it? That’s kind of what’s happening for me with Blind Pig IPA right now.
Before I say more about [...]

Good beer vs good music

For those who like to plan more than a few days ahead, Sept. 19 is going to bring a tough decision. That’s the night that the San Diego Festival of Beer will be held, and based on last year, it will be a fun time. It’s less expensive than the Stone festival, much more convenient [...]

Slow ride

The other night Mrs. Beer & Burritos and I popped in to The Linkery in North Park and found one of the more unusual beer lists around, along with perhaps the highest beer prices I’ve ever seen.
The Linkery is a different kind of place. It does the whole slow food thing, for one. It also [...]

Sculpin to resurface!

OK, so I don’t usually have exclamation points in headlines here, but then again, I don’t usually get to say that one of my favorite beers is on its way back.
Ballast Point recently announced on its MySpace blog that it is fixing to brew some more Sculpin IPA. This is great news because Sculpin is [...]

Stone 12th Anniversary = kinda disappointing

OK, so I mentioned the other day that I was pretty excited about going to the Stone 12th Anniversary Celebration that was held last weekend. But you know, it ended up being rather disappointing.
First, it was too crowded. It seemed like every one of the 40-plus beer lines was either long or super long. Getting from [...]

Are you excited about the return of old, cheap beers?

Neither is Michael Stetz at the Union-Tribune.
I’m no beer snob, believe me. It’s just that drinking this stuff reminds me of 1977, when I drank to forget . . . my acne problem.
Of course I’d probably cave and try to recapture my youth if they brought back Schaefer (“The one beer to have when you’re having more than one”), [...]

Stone 12th Anniversary Celebration

I’m happy right now because I just got a ticket to the Stone 12th Anniversary Celebration this coming Saturday. I wasn’t going to go, but Mrs. Beerandburritos has graciously agreed to be my designated driver, and unlike other beer fests I’ve been to, this one has reduced-price designated driver tickets.
That’s good because usually if I [...]