It sure as hell doesn’t feel like Summer on this rainy chilly night in Fresno, but the first Summer beer has arrived: Sierra Nevada Brewing’s “Summer Break IPA”.
Canning date: 3/11/22
ABV: 4.6%
Style: Hazy Session IPA
Value: A nice beer to have in the fridge all season. Good grocery store beer.
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Stone has many different kinds of Enjoy By beers, but the “4/20” is the flagship of the line.
ABV: 9% | Hops: They are not saying | 12oz cans
Bought At: Madera Ranchos Market. $12 for the six-pack.
Was it any good this year? Well, yes.
Session: Drank two during game two of Phoenix Suns playoff game against New Orleans. Drank a third after the Suns lost.
Did I catch a buzz? Not really. I may have paced them out too far apart.
I didn’t mean to but it turns out I had it during its final hours of freshness:
Still , even in its final moments, it tasted fresh enough – but I guess that’s the purpose of the whole Enjoy By line of beers, ain’t it?
Oh and, I like the can art this year – I am built in to like it as it’s an old Oakland A’s color scheme, but still cool.
It says it’s a hazy IPA but in this modern era of hazy beer, I get no hazy thoughts about this beer. It’s more like an old-school WCIPA.
Albeit a little bit on the sweet and malty side, I am giving this year’s Enjoy By 4/20 a thumbs up. I’ll try to remember it for a more accurate comparison when next year’s comes around.
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I happen to have gone to a local music festival in Fresno yesterday. It required a lot of walking or bike riding if you wanted to see all the bands you could. Which is awesome for me as I enjoy seeing local bands.
Also awesome is the festival took place in a area of Fresno with lots of Craft Beer options to stop and enjoy while walking around.
It made me think about how many calories I burned walking and how many I drank in.
Using this dead blog’s post about beer calories, here are the beers I had and the calories I obtained from them:
So I consumed 780 calories in that session.
I roughly walked five miles, going around to many different stages and venues while at Tower Porchfest in Fresno.
This is where it gets tricky as to how many calories I burned walking.
I don’t have a smart watch to tell me so I have to filter what the Internet says how many calories a dude my size would burn walking that much.
The number I came ip with is 450.
So 780 in, 450 burned, I carried over 330 calories. Not terrible. But more than I would expect with all of that walking.?
Maybe it’s best not to think about it and go enjoy another beer. ?
Hey, but a good walk or meander through your neighborhood after a beer or two is a nice thing to do whether you’re worried about calories or not.
The combination of good looking beers and drinking them in a kayak is what did it for me.
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