May I recommend tememecula olive oil company oil? Avail online. Grown in aguanga. I’ve seen the operation. It’s the real stuff. Fresh. Date stamped on. I trust them.
Downside. Expensive. 20 bucks for 375ml. https://www.temeculaoliveoil.com/#
I use it anyway…to me it’s worth it. Cheaper than big pharma meds.
Fresh olive oil tastes radically different than generic supermkt oil, like Miller lite v. Pliny the elder[/quote]
Pliny the Elder!!! Scaredy you are now a true Temeculan. First off, only a true beer aficionado would even know that is a beer, hats off to you. Secondly, the brewer of that beer is Vinnie Cilurzo, a Temecula boy who is the son of one of the the founders of Temecula’s wine country along with Eli Callaway. I met the younger vinnie in the early 1990’s when he started Bling Pig brewery and they only sold in growlers, I was a regular customer and I think he ran it himself. Fast forward 20+ years, the guy gets married and moves up North and people stand in line for hours just to get one of his beers. His wife is from Julian but went to Sonoma state and after they got married they moved to Sonoma. I only say this because my No Cal relatives worship that brewery and Pliny. I enjoyed breaking the news that their king and queen are a boy from Temecula and a girl from Julian who you could buy beer from and drink with here in town in the mid 1990’s and be the only person in the tasting room. Drank with his dad on more than one occasion, dude was a legend locally, Engineer turned winemaker, sad day when Vincenzo Sr. passed.
Try some Pliny the Younger, although getting the new iphone on release day is probably easier. Rumor has it one of his Temecula friends who owns a liquor store gets a secret supply but no confirmation on that rumor.
last bit of trivia, Bling Pig was code in old town temecula during prohibition for beer at certain establishments, I like that he still has a beer called blind pig. Logo is the same too.
For those of you who don’t drink, my apologies. For those that enjoy life and for Scardey who’s home is now sacred ground because the inventor of double IPA grew up probably riding his bike by Scardey’s home, I give you wikipedia.
“Double IPAs (also referred to as Imperial IPAs) are a stronger, very hoppy variant of IPAs that typically have alcohol content above 7.5% by volume.[27] The style is claimed to have originated with Vinnie Cilurzo, currently the owner of Russian River Brewing Company in Santa Rosa, California, in 1994 at the now-defunct Blind Pig Brewery in Temecula, California.[d] The style has been embraced by the craft brewers of San Diego County, California, to such an extent that double IPAs have been referred to as “San Diego pale ale”.[28][29]”
So there you have it San Diego, turn your nose up at us in the exurbs no more. You would not have a brewing identity if it weren’t for Temecula. Temecula, birthplace of the double IPA, I like how that sounds.
