It's bahl hornin'

During one of our California adventures, Andrew and I spent a night in the Boonville Hotel in Boonville, CA. While we were there, we sampled beer at the Anderson Valley Brewing Company, where the motto is "It's bahl hornin'", or "It's good drinking", in Boontling. When the town was founded in the late 1800s, its residents developed this dialect of English, which contains words from Gaelic, Pomonan (the local Native American language), and Spanish. There are published books about this language, but Wikipedia has a dictionary that's fun to peruse.

Andrew gives a shout-out to Somerville in Boonville, California!

The beer at the brewing company was delicious - though not quite as delicious as the West favorite Bear Republic Brewery - and we enjoyed making friends with the mascot, Barkley the Beer (a bear with deer antlers!).