It was a day of minor celebration.
I earned all eight stripes—orange/knowledge; yellow/momentum; white/kumite (sparring); green/versatility (weapons); red/techniques; black/self-defense; blue/kata; and purple/drills—to be eligible to test for my orange belt.
So I decided to grab a Deschutes Cherries Jubelale from the beer cellar. This "Reserve Series" version of Jubelale is brewed with Oregon cherries and vanilla and then barrel aged. I'm not normally a fan of barrel-aged beers, but this is spectacular. The notes of normal Jubelale, such as smoky wood bark and cocoa, blend perfectly with the added cherry, vanilla, caramel (from the bourbon barrel) flavors, as well as the warm booziness from the high alcohol content (9.2% abv).
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