[Homestead] Finding God at a beer festival

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Sat Oct 18 13:54:16 EDT 2008


"Shortly after the doors opened on the 27th Great American Beer Festival, a
crowd congregated at the booth offering that and other pours from The Lost
Abbey of San Marcos, Calif., where the tap handle is a Celtic cross and the
legacy of beer-brewing monks endures."

That is one I have not heard of.  I wonder if the makers of Shark Bite Ale
went under and sold the brewery.  Shark Bite bought the old Stone brewery
when Stone opened a new brewery in Escondido.  Escondido and San Marcos
share a boundary and are in northern San Diego County.  I will be there in
about a month and will check out this new entry.

San Diego has a very good craft beer scene.  Stone is one of my favorites.
Green Flash in Oceanside and Shark Bite in San Marcos are not bad.  Oggi's
Pizza is a good place to get a pizza and their Sunshine Ale is good with a
pizza.  Karl Strauss is one of the first in San Diego and his Red Trolley
Ale is one I give as gifts.

None will never compare with one of Gene's pizzas with a New Belgium Brewery
1554 on the front porch of Heartwood while the sun sets.  I already miss it
and It has only been two weeks.

Don Bowen  KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html




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