I’m nursing a ten dollar beer in a bar called Beers of the World at St. Louis Lambert International Airport. My flight home to Minneapolis is delayed at least half an hour as storms move in from the southwest. I’ve already had one ten dollar beer, but what else is there to do? The knowledge [...]
I have been doing a lot of cellar clearing lately. A while back I realized that the cellaring situation had gotten out of hand. Surveying the eight cases of homebrew, four cases of big bottle commercials, case and a half of “beer for aging”, and miscellaneous sixpacks of stuff that I didn’t even know anymore [...]
With the Fourth of July freshly behind us, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on the role that beer played in the formation of the nation. It is a largely overlooked but nonetheless important part of our history. Beer was the reason many colonists first came ashore. The first buildings erected in [...]
