Is Vado Smoking Addictive?

[stompandgo]

We ride Western Marin all the time. It shares the same zip code as my downtown and is less than a mile outside of downtown. Beautiful.

It's a pretty area full of rolling hills. They live towards the bottom of one. They could not afford living near the top.

 

[PedalUma]

My young wife at the time and I were in Southern Marin between Tiburon, Sausalito, and Mill Valley but could not buy there. That is when we did buy a house in Petaluma. Since then it has become more hip and has an international set but still looks like its from early last century downtown. It has real hippies and real cowboys. And it has deep cycling culture. Many of the Marin builders took manufacturing, distribution, and development up here from their Marin roots because space was cheaper, and it is where the workers were. Back in the 1890's 6,000 suffragettes had a group ride here. This is a fun article.

Women of the Wheel - Petaluma Historian

Fashion, Sex, and Suffrage During the 1890s Bicycle Craze On July 4, 1896, Petaluma found itself anointed the new “bicycling Mecca” of the West Coast, as a reported 6,000 people turned out at the city’s new Wheelman Park for the annual divisional meet of the League of American Wheelmen. Among...

petalumahistorian.com

And it turns out that a good climate for chickens was also the best climate for pot.

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[GAJ]

Lots of great bicycling here in Sonoma County.

I'm in Santa Rosa waiting for the SMART train bike path to Petaluma to be completed.

In my lifetime I hope.

 

[PedalUma]

SMART train bike path to Petaluma

It is only that Santa Rosa Ave. gauntlet remaining. Where are you having lunch?

 

[GAJ]

It is only that Santa Rosa Ave. gauntlet remaining. Where are you having lunch?

I never have a restaurant as a bicycle destination.

Only brewpubs!

 

[PedalUma]

I never have a restaurant as a bicycle destination.

Only brewpubs!

Someone really wanted me to have a bike taxi that did a beer garden circuit. This town has about one beer garden or brewery per 2,000 people, and they are a big draw. Did you do Crooked Goat, Brewsters, the Block or Lugunitas and Henhouse by the north station?

Home

lagunitas.com

Beer garden

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[GAJ]

Someone really wanted me to have a bike taxi that did a beer garden circuit. This town has about one beer garden or brewery per 2,000 people, and they are a big draw. Did you do Crooked Goat, Brewsters, the Block or Lugunitas and Henhouse by the north station?

Home

lagunitas.com

Beer garden

www.google.com

Crooked Goat in Sebastopol was our main mid point stopping destination.

On the last ride it was Russian River and Old Possum.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I never have a restaurant as a bicycle destination.

Only brewpubs!

While I am a hop-head, I don't drink and ride.

 

[stompandgo]

While I am a hop-head, I don't drink and ride.

I'm the same. Once the computer is shut off, anything goes.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I admit I've been to a brewpub on my e-bike once or twice but it always was an alcohol free IPA

This is the most popular 0.0% IPA of Poland: Miłosław Bezalkoholowe. The photo is 3 years old but it was taken in the same cycling restaurant I visited on last Sunday. Only I preferred compote as it was a very warm day yesterday! Important to say: many Polish competing cyclists don't drink alcohol but love beer!

A rare e-bike visit to a brewpub. This alcohol free IPA comes from probably the best craft brewery of Poland, Trzech Kumpli (Three Mates). You can find this brewpub (Kufle i Kapsle, Beer Mugs & Bottle Caps) in the promenade of Warsaw, Nowy Świat (New World St.)

 

[stompandgo]

N/A craft brews are a growing market here in America. Most breweries near me have at least one available. Athletic Brewing in CT only brews N/A beers.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Russian River and Old Possum.

While some well known high quality American craft ales and stout are imported in Poland, I had no luck to try the famous Russian River!

 

[Slaphappygamer]

I quit drinking 15 years ago. Athletic is a really good non alcoholic beer. I usually get that when I see it offered at a restaurant. I tried other non alcoholic brew, but they were garbage.

I would drink Heineken or Tecate in the summer. Then switch to Sierra Nevada Torpedo or something similarly dark for winter time. Lagunutas was also a favorite.

Though I miss drinking, especially when outdoors at a festival, but I don’t miss spending $10-14 a pint, waiting in line for a bracelet that lets me stand in another line for beer WHICH makes find the other line for the bathroom. I also didn’t like being a giant baby and my friends would have to babysit me. I could never regulate my drinking, until I “saw the light” and cold quit. I can regulate my daily Vado intake and will never give that up, unless a doctor gives me a good reason.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Guinness makes the 0.0 version for Ireland. I really enjoyed it on our 2024 trip, me being the driver.

 

[PedalUma]

All the best with the elections. The recent Ukrainian asymmetric success could have an influence. By Russian River do you mean Pliny? People stand in line for that one for its release each year. Here is an old article about it.

It’s Pliny Time! 10 Things You Need to Know About Russian River’s Most Famous Brew | KQED

Pliny the Younger, Russian River Brewing Co.’s super-hoppy triple India pale ale, will have its 14th release on Feb. 2.

www.kqed.org

Oh, about the Russian River. The southern most part of the Russian Empire was Fort Ross (then Fort Russ) on the Sonoma Coast. Just inland was the northern most fort of the Spanish/Mexican Empire, the town of Sonoma. They traded. Now people take large truck inner tubes down the river to a place called Jenner. Which is beautiful with epic rides.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

By Russian River do you mean Pliny?

Yes. I'd like to try it but it looks it is no way to get it!

 

[Chazmo]

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Guinness makes the 0.0 version for Ireland. I really enjoyed it on our 2024 trip, me being the driver.

Does Harp make a 0%? Nothing like a black and tan without the calories!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Does Harp make a 0%? Nothing like a black and tan without the calories!

You certainly must have heard of Kvass, a fermented bread beverage of all our Eastern neighbours. I wondered how Guinness 0.0% would taste: a way better! A lot of malt and rich flavour, nothing like Kvass!
Unfortunately, you cannot expect a Stout without sugars

 

[stompandgo]

Yes. I'd like to try it but it looks it is no way to get it!

I've gotten it on the East Coast in dribs and drabs. It's not distributed here in any significant quantity. Somebody brought it here.

We have similar hard to get beers here on the East Coast. We should have a beer thread.

 

[PedalUma]

That beer is ranked #8. #1 is a 12% stout. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/top-rated/. I like Big Chicken and Hank the Tank. When you get a Hank the Tank to go, they take an aluminum cylinder to the tap fill it and can it, then put on the label.