You eat an elephant the same way you eat a fish taco: one bite at a time. Drinking your way through a Beer Mecca like San Diego is no different.

It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the scope of the place. If you spent just a half-hour at each brewery, and could instantly teleport from place to place, it would still take more than two full days of nonstop drinking to get a mere sampling of what San Diego has to offer. And that’s not even counting the bars. Or restaurants.

I had 36 hours, an Uber account, plus two industry locals as guides, and I only managed to get to four breweries. Four. Out of 111. For all the math wizards out there, that’s just 3.6%.

I’m not saying I did it the right way. I’m just saying there’s no wrong way to do it.