It took a little while to get to this point, but I finally took the plunge. From this moment on I will no longer be posting at this location. For those of you who enjoy my writings and meanderings, I can now be found at 10th Day Publishing. Over the past year (maybe less for…
Beer Week in Kalamazoo Michigan officially kicks off on Saturday January 11th. But there was an unofficial kick off on Friday the 10th. I spent a few minutes at a couple of the unofficial events tonight. The first happened at Bell’s General Store. The General Store is part of the complex that makes up the…
This is going to be a quick post. I am still running a little behind from the holidays (add in the blizzard of 14 and it gets a bit ugly around here). We are surviving the blizzard fairly well, but wow is it cold. Every now and then I do feel a bit like I…
Wow, that was a long holiday. I hope you had a great holiday season and everything was merry and bright. Right now I feel like I a fish discovering that it can breath underwater (figure that one out). To get back into the swing of things I am jumping right into the Session for January.…
Let’s just call this out like it should be. We are about to hit the weeks of Christmas and New Years. My mind is on the holidays ahead and I feel it safe to say the same is true for you. I could spend our time in this post going over some new thought or…
I grew up thinking I knew what Wassailing was. That is such a strange word. What exactly is a wassal and why would you want to wassail it? Ya, to explain it to the young we were always told that we were going caroling. For most of us it would end there, an old antiquated…
Today is the first Friday of the month, which means it is time for the monthly Session. For Session 82 Steve Lamond from Beers I’ve Known poses something a little different. The subject this month is the beer yarn. Tell a tale relating to beer in someway. Maybe an anecdote or a fun beer adventure…
You may not be aware of this, but December 5th is the official date in 1933 when Prohibition was repealed in the United States. The law was a weird one where by federal rule, booze was legal again. But the states have jurisdiction over how alcohol is handled within their boundaries. This has led to…
Taking a short break for the holidays. We shall return next week on our normally scheduled days. In the meantime, if you be the sort to enjoy a trip to a crowded bar, enjoy the busiest bar night of the year. May you find solace for your hangover with turkey tomorrow.
Recently my friend Susan from Finding Our Way Now put out a list of great wines to try for your Thanksgiving gatherings. It’s a great idea and an easy way to get an idea of what you might want to have with your turkey and stuffing. In our conversation for the post she turned to…
Ever feel like so much is happening around you that you just can’t keep up? That has been the brewing community around me lately. So much is happening it is hard to be every where at one time. It has been a while since I was last up at Hop Head Farms. In the eternity…
The world has changed quite a bit in the past few hundred years. Sounds the obvious doesn’t it? I mean sure the world has changed. We see these changes everywhere we look. So ya, I know I bored you already by stating something that didn’t need to be said. So now we have to ask,…
I haven’t really talked about it over here on this portion of my writing sites. I have been working my way through NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) this month. Basically, this means the amount of fiction I write in a normal month is now on steroids. The month of November is devoted to writing a…
I have been digging through some Prohibition history recently as I help my wife with a paper she is writing for school. I ran across a few tidbits I hadn’t known before now in the process. I know this sounds like it could be leading up to a big post or something along those lines.…
Gonzo’s Bigg Dogg Brewery is counting down the minutes till they open. (Maybe that’s an exaggeration). But really, they will officially open within the next week or so. As it is right now, they have been doing what new places do to work through the bugs. It is called a soft opening. Customers can get…
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