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During my twenties, I considered Mexico to be beer heaven. It didn’t hurt that a beer truck trundled up the beach road at Tenacatita every other day, dispensing boxes of Dos Equis at wholesale prices. At the time I was an avowed drinker of cheap light beer and Mexican beer was basically a better, slightly cheaper version of the beer I was drinking at home (Olympia and Rainier). Then I turned 30 and something terrible happened: I developed a taste for  craft beer.

This was bad news on a number of levels. For one thing, it fit into a distinct and unfortunate pattern in my life wherein my tastes grow more refined as my wallet grows thinner. (Here in Oregon a six pack of my favorite beer costs nine dollars, as opposed to, say, 4.99.) Furthermore, as my taste for more complex beer developed, mass-produced beer began to taste bland and overly sweet.����¯�¿�½���¯���¿���½����¯�¿�½������¢����¯�¿�½������¯����¯�¿�½������¿����¯�¿�½������½����¯�¿�½���¯���¿���½����¯�¿�½������¦ Read the rest