One arrives on the Autovía del Mediterráneo (highway), heading towards Motril and turning off at La Cala del Moral, or keeping to the autovía. The N-340 road passes through the town, and even from here you can see that this was once a typical fishing town on the coast. The municipality covers an area of 30 square kilometers, and offers something for everybody: lots of hotels, restaurants and bars, ten kilometers of coastline for water sports or simply lying in the sun, an excellent golf course and other sporting facilities.
The 18-hole Añoreta Golf Course, designed by Jose María Cañizares, is on the border with Torre de Benagalbón, and is considered one of the best golf courses in Spain. The promenade that links La Cala del Moral with Rincón is seven kilometers long, and from here there are wonderful views over Malaga Bay. One of the old traditions that has not yet been lost in Rincón de la Victoria is net fishing on the beaches in the early morning. A net of about 40 or 50 meters long is thrown into the water by a group of men, who make a wide circle with it, gradually pulling it in to the beach again full of fish, if they are lucky. This is a sight that is seldom seen in other parts of Europe, and well worth getting out of bed early for. Generally the people who live here work in Malaga but prefer the fresh sea air you get from Rincon de la Victoria.
Like most areas along the coast, it does get very busy during the summer months, however out of season it is a more relaxed place. Rincón de la Victoria is the starting point for the so-called 'sun and avocado route'.
This seaside village, surrounded by tropical vegetation and vast tracts of sugar cane plantations, has much to offer to those who love living in a quite area but with all the facilities around as shops, leisure activities or good restaurants where having very good seafood. A little bit more apart of the town, there is a big complex with cinemas, restaurants, hypermarket and shops.
Rincón de la Victoria´s touristic infraestructure is improving offering clean beaches with all services, cultural activities, sport complexes, tourism office, and good connection by highway to the main cities in Andalucia. Rincón de la Victoria is well connected to the highway, easy to get Malaga capital and other towns in Costa del Sol.
Nature, golf, beach and sun to enjoy in this beautiful place in the south of Spain. Area surface: 30 squared Kimlometers Inhabitants: 25.000 Golf: yes Doctor: yes Shopping center: yes Leisure activities:yes Bars and restaurants: yes School: yes
Craig Wanichek, president and chief executive officer of Summit Bank (Nasdaq: SBKO), announced the formation of a Municipal Banking Group. Mike Mercer has been selected to lead the Group, which develops comprehensive, customized solutions to help public entities meet their goals through credit issuance, efficient funds management and providing safe and sound depository services.
“Our focus for Municipal Banking is the same focus we have throughout Summit: to build relationships and partner with clients to provide resources and help them succeed,” said Wanichek. “We look forward to offering municipal communities, many of which are in rural and underserved areas, with a viable community banking alternative for banking and financing options.”
As a banker with a thirty-year history in commercial lending and executive management, Mercer brings knowledge and depth to the Group. “Our goal is to partner with clients in the Pacific Northwest. As a community bank, we can relate to small and medium size public entities where relationships matter,” said Mercer. “What Summit offers is responsive decision making, fast turnaround and customized solutions. We understand the challenges and needs of municipalities and governments and provide them with the tools they need to successfully navigate through purchases and refinances.”
Summit Bank’s Municipal Banking Group offers full service banking to cities, counties, fire districts, ports, school districts and other special-purpose districts in the Pacific Northwest.
With offices in Eugene and Bend, Summit Bank is a community bank that specializes in providing high-level service to professionals and medium-sized businesses and their owners. Summit Bank is quoted on the NASDAQ Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board as SBKO, is the number one community bank lender in Oregon for SBA Financing and is designated this year as a 100 Best Company to Work for in Oregon, according to Oregon Business Magazine. Most recently, the bank was named a finalist for the Bold Steps Award, which recognizes local sustainable businesses and represents a partnership between the City of Eugene, the Mayor and BRING.
Date Stamping has always been a contentious issue in the business of home beermaking products. In the grand scheme of food products manufacturing, ours is a very small, very specialized niche market. One of the problems with very small, very specialized niches is that you never accomplish volumes that make issues of freshness dating easy. You can bet that if Budweiser had the sales volumes of say, an obscure Central European brewery, it would not put a “born on” date on their products.
The Budweiser company is to be lauded for putting an easily recognizable date of production on their products. Think what you will about the type of beer produced, you always know if the Budweiser product you are purchasing has accidently spent the last summer sitting in a warehouse somewhere getting stale. Whether Budweiser was following a trend set by the microbrewery industry or vice versa, the fact remains that putting a recognizable date of either production, or expiration, is becoming the norm in the commercial beer business.
Why is date-stamping so important in home beermaking products? As with beer itself, freshness is key in the products that go into making beer. Malt concentrates darken with age. There is no reversing it. It will happen. This darkening starts to become noticeable in light malt concentrates in about 2 years. It becomes significant after about two and a half years. All malt concentrates start to take on stale flavors after about two and a half years. Depending upon the quality of the yeast, and the quality of the production process, dry yeast starts to deteriorate at about the same rate.
Unfortunately, date-stamping is not the norm in the homebrewing products business. In fact, the trend is in the opposite direction. As global malt concentrate companies have gotten bigger, their interest in hobby beermaking has declined. With it, their interest in ensuring the delivery of top-quality products has also declined. Even more unfortunate is that this trend has been applauded by far too many in the business, who should be more interested in providing you with top-quality products. Using undecipherable production codes, or worse, no identifiable markings of any kind (as is typical of malt concentrate sold in our industry in 55 gallon industrial drums), removes from the distribution network the burden of proper stock rotation and proper inventory control. No date stamping equals easier, sloppier business practices for far too many.
We at the Coopers Brewery want every experience you have with beermaking to be a quality, positive experience. That is why we date-stamp all of our beer kits with a “Best Before” date. This date is two-years from the date the beer kit was produced. We stamp all of our Coopers Brewery Unhopped Malt Extract with a “Produced On” date. This is configured as “day of year/year”. So, “253/05” means that that product was produced on the 253rd day of 2005. That’s our “Born On” date. We believe that using recognizable date stamps is a sign of our commitment to our products and to the hobby we love.
Because we want every experience you have with home beermaking to be a quality experience, we urge to only buy home beermaking products that are packaged with quality beermaking in mind. And look for the date. If there isn’t one, you don’t know how old that product is (irrespective of where it was made) or if the beer made from it will be what you were expecting. If it is a Coopers product, and it is past its “Best Before” date, or more than two years past its “Born On” date, please let us know. We’ll correct the situation to ensure that you get the best possible Coopers Brewery home beermaking products.
"We at the Coopers Brewery want every experience you have with beermaking to be a quality, positive experience."
Thanks so much for including my card as one of the winners! Congrats to Birgit and Glenda - beautiful cards!