You might have heard the phrase "a little bit country and a little bit rock & roll." Today's beer follows that being a little bit old school and a little bit new school. Culture Brewing's Mosaic IPA has all that upfront flora aroma you'd expect with a beer with Mosaic hops but also hides a subtle bitterness that dries the beer up on the backend like an OG West Coast IPA.

There has been a lot brewing at Culture and it's more then just the beer! It's been forever since we've had anyone from the brewrey swing by and we're fixing that this week as Jason and Larry drop by all week to talk about what's happening in their tasting rooms and their brew house. We start light and crisp with their interperation of a Blonde ale called Solana Blonde.

Closing the week with Chris and Ryan from SouthNorte with a drink that has become more and more popular as more premium tequilas hit the market. With tequila, lime and grapefruit soda the Paloma is a refreshing and less sweet alternative to a margarita. IMO it's a perfect way to kick off a weekend with your friends.

Chris and Ryan from SouthNorte might have brought my new favorite go-to spirit and soda beverage. After the introduction of the Hibiscus Lime yestrday, today's Tequila Soda with Orange has no right being this good! Subtle tequila flavor with a hint of orange essence that it's more akin to expressing orange peel over an old Fashioned then drinking tequila and orange juice and that's just the way I like it!

With a warm weekend on the horizon Chris and Ryan from SouthNorte brought the ultimate refreshing cocktail a Hibiscus Lime Tequila soda. If a vodka soda is your go to this is a beverage you need to try, like a carbonated glass of agua de Jamaica with a suble hint of tequila...this might just become you new summertime cocktail.

It's Cinco De Mayo! Time to celebrate with a drink that draws its origins back to Ensenada Mexico! Ryan from SouthNorte who once lived there bring all the inspirations of a freshsly made South of the border margarita to a can near you!

It's Cinco De Mayo week! That means we're going to explore some of the locally made RTD cocktials with a South of the border flair. SouthNorte joins us all week to show off their popular line of beverages. We start with the Matador, big on pineapple flavor with a surprising lack of boozyness given the 7% AVB.

Our final pepper beer of the week, designed not be punishing but almost like a desert. Nickel Beer Co's Serrano Stout features both roasted and raw Serrano peppers aged in a bourbon barrel. Dark complex with a subtle pepper flavor and almost no heat, this is the kind of beer you want to let warm up just a little to experince all the flavors it has to offer.

This is gonna be the one that hurts! Tom alluded all week that there was going to be one beer that would light me up and today he's brought Nickel Beer Co's Death Tongue IPA. Made from locally grown Devi's Tongue peppers, this IPA is very curious because it drinks very much like what you would expect from an IPA and then you get hit with the heat. It's a wild ride that will have you coming back for sip after sip after sip.

Not a San Diego beer, but a former San Diego brewer and now medal winner, 603 Where There Is Smoke There Is Fire is Tom's atempt to get me to enjoy a pepper AND smoke beer. I'm notoriously not a fan of smoked any beer, we'll see if this beer and some O'Brien's wings can sway my opinion.