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September is the month South Florida gets away with things. The visitors have gone home, the water is still bathtub-warm, the mullet start moving down the beach — and the sun is every bit as heavy as it was in July. It is a great month to be outside and a punishing month to wear the wrong thing on your head. Which brings us to the visor. It is the most divisive piece of headwear in the cooler, and most of the argument happens because nobody says out loud what a visor actually does and does not do. So here...

September in Delray Beach is the month that makes the point. The heat sits on you, the afternoon storms arrive more or less on schedule, and by NOAA’s National Hurricane Center climatology the Atlantic hurricane season peaks in the first half of September. Sea turtle nesting season is still running along our stretch of coast through the end of October. Every one of those afternoon downpours pushes whatever was sitting in a parking lot or a swale toward a storm drain, then a canal, then an inlet. And the third Saturday of September is International Coastal Cleanup Day. This is...

Cold Screamin' Reels IPA straight into the batter — the full beer-battered mahi recipe, with every step, time and temperature.

Our Fruit Ale, reduced with honey and chili flake into a glossy glaze for grilled shrimp — the full recipe, start to finish.

Two racks of baby backs, low and slow on the backyard grill, glazed with a barbecue sauce built on Sea Cow Milk Stout — the Dog Days finale that never asks for an oven.