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Trejo & Lincoln

Taco and donut magnate (and occasional actor too) Danny Trejo and his iconic face are on a new beer from Lincoln Beer Co. of Burbank.

I had a sneak taste of the beer and heard about the backstory of it as well…

Danny Trejo himself does not touch alcohol but Lincoln was approached by the team at Trejos Cantina/ Tacos to create a branded beer for their restaurants. In fact it has been on tap for a few months now. The brewer, Pat, was initially skeptical since he was not a fan of the Mexican lager style (the word skunked was thrown out a couple times) but it was taken as an opportunity to do their take on the style, something that doesn’t interfere with the food that it will be most likely served with, tacos.

The beer itself is so-so in my opinion. I catch some metallic as well as a little pear to it. It is less zippy and more a smooth version focusing on the malt. The beer that I was more taken by was the new Aussie Summer Pale. It had a menthol / mint flavor that was new coming from the seasonaly named Summer hop.

Lincoln will be throwing a big bash surrounding the can release and of course you can get the beer at Trejo’s too.

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A Book & A Beer – Lincoln in the Bardo


Let’s stay in the nation’s capitol and re-engage with Abraham Lincoln. There was a lot of glowing reviews of Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. So much so that I quickly added it to my library “want” list.

Well, turns out, it was not the book for me. It started with the screenplay, staccato format that Saunders employs throughout the book. It is a combination of lines of dialogue and quotes pulled from history books. Just when you get into a rhythm with the the three main voices (characters), you get a chapter with the history quotes. It is hard to build up to a climax when the story keeps getting undercut.

The second issue is that neither Abraham or Willie Lincoln is in the book all that much. The story is about the grief of dying and leaving your mortal coil. But neither gets much time in the pages. I kept wanting to know more about Willie and kept getting pulled away from him. If Saunders wanted to focus on the others stuck in the Bardo, why use Willie Lincoln as just a plot driver?

It is a pity because the idea of a Bardo and how one ends there after death, and how one gets out (if at all), is a good starting point. Easy to populate a universe of characters operating under certain rules known and unknown.

Beer choice, wise, you can’t get too on point than to recommend a beer from the forthcoming Lincoln Beer Company of Burbank. Perhaps the Honeysuckle Session ale that you could sip whilst reading the book.

You could also go for Acoustic Ales Unplugged – Heaven Hill an Imperial Stout with Belgian Chocolate Aged in Heaven Hill whiskey Barrels.

If you want to honor Lincoln’s state, then maybe choose Off Color’s Troublesome Gose to drink while the mischief making ghosts create havoc.