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Tonight my thoughts went back to my family & friends in California (+ other states), to another holiday season miles away from home, and to those wonderful memories that trick my mind into feeling as if I’m closer to home than I actually am. Purchased while visiting CA 3 years ago, a day trip to the Mad River Brewing Company (Blue Lake, CA), this formidable & tasty 12.2% John Barleycorn 2017 Bourbon Barrel. Cheers! #johnbarleycorn2017 #johnbarleycornbourbon #madriverbrewing #californiabeer #beer #bier #bière #biere #instabeer #beerphoto #beerlover #beerstagram #craftbeer #beertasting #BeTheBelgianBeer (at Balen, Antwerpen, Belgium) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJUJYiAFcQj/?igshid=1wiz1c5wwx4ex

Life (or “Vacationing”, if you like,) on the road is always fun and full of twists & turns... A flat tire messed up our trip to Blue Lake and the Humboldt Folklife Festival today, but at least the tire was successfully replaced, and I was able to try Mad River Brewery’s Steelhead Extra Pale Ale at Trinidad’s Headies Pizza And Pour, where we also ate a variety of delicious pizza slices (I had hoped to try Mad River’s beers at the festival, but...). Then we headed back to my father’s cabin in the redwoods where I kicked butt at Scrabble (where a mix of Dutch/Flemish and English was allowed), and I finished off a WC hopped “Belgian-style Blond” Defenestration (would many in Belgium also like to toss some politicians out of a building?) and a Blind Pig (one of my fav’s, a beer I always go back to) by Russian River Brewing Company (Santa Rosa, CA). Cheers! #steelheadextrapaleale #madriverbrewing #defenestration #blindpig #russianriverbrewing #californiabeer #beer #bier #bière #biere #instabeer #beerphoto #beerlover #beerstagram #craftbeer #beertasting #BeTheBelgianBeer (at Trinidad, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz7NesflpQ-/?igshid=rr1pukkd01uh

#madriverbrewing #humboltbrownie has all the right notes for a thick and chewy beer tonight! #homebrew #horsethiefbrewers #cloneworthy #craftbeer