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Port Brewing La Cruda Porter
Image by Bernt Rostad
A bottle of La Cruda Porter from Port Brewing in San Marcos, California, at BrewDog Edinburgh.
Port Brewing La Cruda Porter is a 6,7% abv porter brewed in April 2011 when Tomme Arthur (founder of Port Brewing / Lost Abbey) invited Skip Virgilio (founder of AleSmith) and his old mentor Troy Hojel to brew a commemoration beer for Cervecerias La Cruda, the small brewpub Troy and Tomme opened together in downtown San Diego 1996. Though open for less than a year, that brewpub won the Gold Medal for Robust Porters at the Great American Beer Festival in the fall 1996 and helped fermenting the amazing San Diego beer scene.
La Cruda Porter poured pitch black with a big, tan head. The aroma was almost fruity, with a good roasted coffee character, balanced by sweet caramel and toffee notes. Very nice. The mouthfeel was medium heavy with a velvety smooth carbonation. The flavor started out fruity, like ripe apples, with a mild caramel note and a good dose of coffee. The coffee lingered in the aftertaste, together with a mild hop bitterness.
This is an excellent porter, smooth, rich and harmonic. Yummy!
Trivia: Though all three are still brewing, only Tomme Arthur is doing so professionally; Troy is now a software engineer in Colorado while Skip has turned to real estate in San Diego.
Jorstad Cabin (4)
Image by Beyond the Trail
Willard Ormand Jorstad -- everyone called him "George" -- was a mountain man -- writer -- gold miner -- built this cabin -- miles from the nearest road -- using Douglas Fir -- in the late 1930s and lived here -- for the most part -- (excepting winters) until the 1980s. For many decades everyone along the North Fork of the Trinity River knew George -- his cabin at Pfeiffer Flat was an important stop along the trail for gold miners -- hunters -- fishermen -- trappers -- backpackers.
Jorstad -- in his book -- "Behind the Wild River" called Pfeiffer Flat "the most beautiful piece of real estate I'd ever seen .. a broad flat along the river, fairly open, set about with giant firs and pines, park-like in appearance, covered with grass growing out of a deep bed of fertile soil. What a find! And there was gold too!"
Happy to say -- Pfeiffer Flat hasn't changed -- well, at least not too much, over the years. If you visit Jorstad Cabin -- please treat it with respect. Remember -- it's a rare and fragile remnant of a bygone era.
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In Jorstad's book [journal] it's clear that his relationship with his wife, Adzie, was a very close one. He wrote a lot about Adzie ... she comes across as competent, resourceful, courageous ... she helped George build the cabin and apparently adapted to life in the wilderness very well in the beginning ... but in 1941she received a job offer in San Diego ... and ... after having just spent a winter in the cabin ... a winter in which heavy snowfall almost buried the cabin ... she decided she'd had enough .... accepted the job in San Diego ... and George and Adzie ... sadly ... went their separate ways.
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"Since the beginning, Adzie had been deeply suspicious of the mining part of our project. She went along with the wilderness aspects of it: the cabin building and our efforts to set up a fairly comfortable home in these wilds. But she had many serious doubts as to the practicality of it all. Dreams and stories are one thing, she insisted, but life in this world could not be supported by them. Pragmatic Adzie demanded substance in terms of money to pay for the necessities of life but also its extras: the pelf that makes for creature comforts of life and wins the respect of friends and family. After all, although aesthetic studies are interesting and knowledge is desirable in that it enhances the quality of life, these pursuits are poor providers of bread and butter. Bottom line, Adzie was first a flesh-and-blood creature and second an aesthete ..."
--George Jorstad [Excerpt from "Behind The Wild River"]
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1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV (04)
Image by Georg Schwalbach (GS1311)
The Lamborghini Miura was a sports car produced by Italian automaker Lamborghini between 1966 and 1972. The car is widely considered to have begun the trend of high performance, two-seater, mid-engined sports cars.[3] At launch, it was the fastest production road car available.
The Miura Roadster (actually more of a targa-model, but without any removable roof) was built by Bertone as a show car. Based on a P400, it was first shown at the 1968 Brussels Auto Show. After having been exhibited at several auto salons the car was sold to the International Lead Zinc Research Organization (ILZRO) who turned it into a display-vehicle showcasing the possibilities of using zinc alloys in cars. The car was named the ZN75. A few other Miuras have had their tops removed, but this Bertone Miura Roadster was the only factory open-top Miura.
In 2006 the ZN75 was purchased by New York City real estate developer Adam Gordon. Gordon had Bobilff Motorcars in San Diego, California return the car to its original Bertone Roadster form. The restored car was first shown in August 2008 at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
(Wikipedia)
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Der Lamborghini Miura ist ein Sportwagen des italienischen Automobilherstellers Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A.
Der Lamborghini Miura war, nach dem 350 GT, dem 400 GT, dem Islero / Islero S, dem Espada und dem Jarama / Jarama S der sechste PKW von Lamborghini. Er wurde von 1966 bis 1973 in Sant’Agata Bolognese produziert. Nachfolger war der Lamborghini Countach.
Ein Einzelstück blieb der Lamborghini Miura Roadster. Er wurde 1968 präsentiert, Probleme mit der Stabilität verhinderten jedoch eine Serienfertigung. Das Fahrzeug wurde später zu Forschungszwecken an ein Unternehmen aus der Metallindustrie verkauft.
(Wikipedia)
