IMOL Double Dips in Episode Three...

International Men of Leisure inexplicably were not able to make a January date work for our monthly conference call.  Apologies.  All of them.   But in the end, that means you get two reviews of beers that range from somewhat interesting to extremely interesting.  First up, we drinking the same IPA, brewed by the same company, in two different breweries, neither of which is their flagship brewery in California.  That's a lot of commas, but you'll get the idea, I promise.  Also, we visit a Swedish beer that was developed around the dream of a 12 year old to become a pastry chef.  You're interested now, aren't you?

Before we get into the beer, a reminder that this exercise is for me, and my good handsome friend in Paris, to find identical beers and then discuss them.  Where are they from?  How did they get there?  Did travel have an effect on them?  Are they marketed differently?  Are we tasting the same things?  Stuff like that.  Let's get to the beers...