Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday… I’m sorry I didn’t get to talk to more of you on the phone, but my phone was on silent due to constant activity throughout the day… I was orientated, then Brynn and I made the arduous journey down to the beach, nearly sliding down several steep sandy declines, and only getting to dip our feet in the water for about 190 seconds before striking back up La Jolla Shores Drive to the UCSD parking lot. Following that, a bunch of us went up to Pizza Port in Solana Beach, which is the eighth best brewer in the world according to RateBeer.com users.
In fact, many of you will be surprised to know that San Diego is home to THREE of the top ten brewers IN THE WORLD.
I’ll give you a minute to let that sink in.
I can hear Kynthia letting out some sort of guffaw.
In addition to Pizza Port, San Diego is best brewer in the world, AleSmith Brewing Company, and the third best, Stone Brewing Co. Indiana, interestingly enough, is home to number two, the Three Floyds Brewing Company, which I never once visited while in Indiana. I blame Kynthia and David for this. What happened? The second best brewery in the world mere hours away and we were sitting in Yogi’s?
Anyway, all of this is according to RateBeer.com, which may not sound like the most reputable source, but accept this toasty warm fact into your salivating minds:
There are 1600 users on RateBeer who have rated 100 beers or more. There are about 250 users who have rated 1000+ beers. I doubt I’ve even tried 50 beers in my lifetime, let alone gone to the trouble to rate them online. These people lie somewhere between connoisseur and obsessive freak on the beer enthusiast scale.
And beer from Stone is pretty good, I have to say.
Here we are, as far apart as we can be. Lucky lucky that San Diego has so much beer. I miss you. The apartment is awesome. I will come visit as soon as i can.
happy belated birthday, you old fart!
much love
erik,
I’m late - happy birthday!
- elias
well, i wouldn’t say it was a guffaw of any sort, but that’s probably only because it was inaudible, and that’s probably only because you weren’t here to hear it, so i concede the spirit of your accusation. ;)
i will place no official comment on the record, however, until i see a demographic report on RateBeer.com users. let’s just say i suspect a regional bias…
as for culpability in the matter of never tasting three floyds’ beer, i will hold no conversations on the matter with people who elected not to attend beerfest. robert the bruce is a rather widely distributed bottled beer that you could have tasted at any time, but i must say that i was never overly impressed with it. their website Does make a good case for a visit to allow for broader sampling, but hammond is far away, yo, and boring, so i forgive us, even as i add it to the list of things to do next time i’m in the hoosier state.
fwiw, i still contend that barley island is the most overlooked of indiana breweries, so maybe i should sign myself up at RateBeer.com, and work to change the system from the Inside.
all jokes aside, i look forward to sampling the san diego taps when i visit, especially because i can’t really say that much for scottish beer so far. all parties who have experienced an explanation of my beer graphing system will undoubtably be surprised to hear that my favorite local offering so far is an IPA.
/pausing, while you gasp in alarm/
ok, now i should go write on my own blog, rather than overtaking yours.
Happy birthday, Erik! Glad you found a sweet apartment (and beer). Cheers from CT.