Friends with Brews heads out to a brewpub — Medford Brewing Company in Medford, Massachusetts — and works through a twelve-glass flight between the two of us: a West Coast IPA, the PoWit witbier, a Mexican lager, a dry Irish stout, an English bitter, and the ~8% Rude Panda imperial porter. Thumbs go up, thumbs go down, and the bitter earns a very diplomatic 45-degree thumb.

As always, it wanders well past the beer.

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The twelve-beer flight at Medford Brewing Company, and who ordered what
Tasting notes and ratings across the IPA, PoWit, Mexican lager, dry Irish stout, English bitter, and Rude Panda porter
Today’s 5.5-mile trail run and the Japanese rice bowls afterward (Scott’s gyudon, Peter’s tuna/yellowtail/salmon donburi)
Why Peter thinks Guinness is “weak,” and a dry stout that’s “a less watery Guinness”
Business ideas that already exist: a coffee/yoga/running shop, Runderwear, and the Poopsicle
Pocket-Sized Podcast nostalgia, dated by the iPhone 4S and Siri
“VLAN tag us”: firewalls and the trunking-vs-tagging debate
Claude Code projects, from Obsidian vaults to a YouTube-to-blog pipeline, plus going expat
Shipping version 1.0, because real artists ship

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