Jade Hops

Home brewing for the philosophically inclined. A healthy dose of water, malt, hops, yeast, and literature. San Diego, Ca

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Culture Brewing Co Ocean Beach San Diego, December 2017

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Wish you were BEER 😂

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Hey guys, guess what?! I am doing my first ever GIVEAWAY!!!

Up for grabs are some pretty neat goodies from one of my favorite breweries here in San Diego: Ballast Point. The lucky winner walks away (scrolls away?) with two neat-o sculpin coasters, a sick key-chain bottle opener, and a small 5 oz taster glass.

The Rules:

Must be following this blog

Must reblog this post (up to 2 times for up to 2 valid entries)

Must be 21+ years of age to win (I will verify)

Only open to residents in the continental U.S. (sorry Alaska, Hawaii & Puerto Rico)

Contest ends on January 1, 2018 12 am Pacific Time, will announce winner within 24 hours of contest end date

Good luck & Cheers!

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Only a few days left on this! Odds are looking good given limited number of actual reblogs (lol). 

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Delicious beers & fish tacos at the Hopping Pig in the Gaslamp District! 

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Up there on the walls of Gibraltar, the monkeys are the real owners of the top of the rock. They will do their best to ignore the nosy tourists with shiny cameras, maybe using their panicked heads or shoulders as helpful climbing steps if need arises. Younger macaques would jump on passing cars and poke their heads through any open windows with a bored look, not really hoping for anything and leaving the car on the first opportunity, like doing it out of some benevolent duty. Local legends, they don’t seem to care about their fame, lying carelessly in the middle of the less traveled road and waiting to be fed like the recognized masters they are. Because Gibraltar doesn’t have their own beer (imagine that) I got with me a Cruzcampo Gran Reserva, a pretentious name for a rather bland macro brew. Properly chilled it was still enjoyable, or maybe the whole climbing on top of the rock got me really thirsty…

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I like the look of the can, too bad the beer’s underwhelming though. Sweet views on that rock!

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Awesome seasonal: Stone MINT Coffee Milk Stout

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Oooh, definitely gotta search this out.

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It isn’t Xmas unless your beer was brewed with gold, frankincense and myrrh like this gem from @innisandgunnca 🍻 What are you sipping this holiday?

📷: @illnotestudios (at Toronto, Ontario)

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Sounds like a gem! Really curious as to how it tastes. 

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That Allagash pour from the first night vs gif photo set taken with better lighting so you can see the color on this beer! 

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what's so "hard" about philosophy?

Philosophy is ‘hard’ because it’s difficult to think in a clear and thorough manner. And philosophy involves the systematic clarification of ideas and concepts. This is not easy stuff to do. It takes time, patience, passion, courage, and commitment. Much, even most, of our thinking is lazy and automatic. One of the greatest benefits to learning philosophy comes in the discovery of how much we take for granted. We think we know what we mean when we say things like ‘truth’, ‘morality’, 'science’, 'free will’, 'life’, 'time’, 'nature’, even 'reality’, but philosophy requires that we discard our culturally- and evolutionarily-instilled intuitions and judgments and explore the world from scratch. Nothing can be taken for granted. Moreover, philosophy requires us to confront many of the scariest questions of existence. Does life have meaning? When is life worth living? Is there a god? Is there an afterlife? What do we value? What should we value? How can we live a good life? Are we responsible for our decisions? Do we have moral obligations to those who are different from us, such as non-human animals and future generations? These are not easy things to do. Indeed, approaching these questions with lucidity and passion can be one of the most difficult endeavors in which a human can partake. I’ll let the philosopher Cornel West take it from here: 'It takes tremendous discipline, tremendous courage to think for yourself. W.B. Yeats said “It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield.” Courage is the enabling virtue for any philosopher, for any human being. Courage to think. Courage to love. Courage to hope.’

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Very well said!

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Prairie in the Snow

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Saint Archer Brewing Co Blackberry Gose Tart Wheat Ale

Found this sixer at Ralph’s the other day. 

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Allagash Brewing Company Hoppy Table Beer (Dry Hopped Belgian-Style Ale) 

One of the goodies I picked up from AleTales bottle shop the other day. I popped one open to try it that same night and it did not disappoint! I Didn’t include pics of the beer-in-glass with this post because I used some photography equipment I got from work for these pictures and the lighting is much better than the ones I snapped the night I tried this lovely table beer. Maybe I will post the beer-in-glass pics separately, or just altogether take them over again.

Cheers!

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Prairie Bombs!!

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Stopped by AleTales this past weekend and picked up a few treats that I am excited to try. I did’t realize AleTales was right in front of Hopsy, let alone that they were based right here in San Diego on Linda Vista down the street from where I graduated! Boy a lot has changed in the area. Very cool, glad I stopped by.

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So I’m currently putting off my already five-day over due reflection on functionalism and identity theory because, well, who really gets their panties in a knot over whether or not brain states are type or token identical to mental states? Exactly! No–wait for it–body (sorry Dr. J.J.C. Smart). So why am I telling you all this? Lets just say that I, like a vast portion of our wonderful tumblr-ing society, am a procrastinator and my work, much like my beer, tastes better if it ferments and conditions in my brain-bottle for an unreasonably lengthy amount of time. So where does that leave my paper? Well…uhhhh… Stop pressuring me, I’ll do right after this post, geez what are you my mom? (I love you too, mom).

Anyway, down to brass tax. Today I bring you (and by you I mean me) Stone’s aptly named sublimely self-righteous black IPA in all its delicious glory. Yes I am illegally imbibing it in a public park, no I did not bring enough for everyone, and HOLY FUCK that’s good. So good that I am going to request–nay–demand that you my dear, dear friends share with me, your closest and most trusted amigo, your favorite self-righteous black ipa clone recipe. I realize I can easily acquire this information from the magic internet box for myself, but I’m jones'n for y'alls formulations. 

Cheers!

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Teehee, oldie but goodie!

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I was given a couple of six packs from Great Divide. Very approachable, a little bitter on the back with a solid malty backbone. I like the pine and stone fruit notes in front. This will rock the house paired with my salt block salmon!

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Look at that head!

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Gold Coast (Garvies Point)

Brewery : Garvies Point Beer : Gold Coast Style : Double IPA / Imperial IPA / DIPA Variance : None

9 / 10

Holy mother of peach juice IPAs, this is delicious. I couldn’t help but immediately notice that this can looks suspiciously like the cover of The Great Gatsby (The movie not the book. Actually, what the fuck is a book?) but I’m going to guess that no royalties have been payed so let’s keep the similarities on the hush hush. Who am I kidding, Leonardo DiCaprio is too busy fucking random models on exotic islands and growing a homeless man beard to worry about a silly thing like royalties so don’t worry Garvies Point, I’ve got your back. The “Gold Coast” in Long Island NY is an area known as the North Shore where there are over 500 monstrous mansions that were built in the times of Gatsby (early 1980’s) and this beer follows those home’s example with it’s monstrous flavors. A solid initial peach juice flavor starts things off with a great balance of bitter and sweet before some of those oniony hops join in reminding your palate what the hell style you are drinking bringing even more of that nice hop bitterness before closing with a musty hop flavor with even more of that juicy oniony goodness to bring the whole thing together. This definitely is a “Privileged American DIPA for the most affluent Hop Heads” because this flavor is worth a million bucks. Well, either a million bucks or twenty bucks, whichever is closer… Whatever. Basically, this is a great beer for the hop lovers of the world because this definitely makes you feel fancy as fuck especially when drinking it out of their teku glass and it will own your taste buds with it’s great flavor. For the newcomers to the hop haven, I can see this being either a great or terrible entry point to the style because on one hand, this is a juicy delicious brew but on the other, this is a hop bomb not shying away from the style. Go figure it out for yourselves you rich bastards!

Written by: Steve B.

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CBS? CB YES

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I am so jelly!