You’re part of a big crowd, you and your wife. You’re on your way to some kind of celebratory event. (A company holiday party? A birthday party?) You know that the city you’re in both is LA and is not — and you’re part of that whole crowd moving through the streets and tunnels that […]
You’re with Cory Doctorow in an office in — New York? London? A Silo-style underground facsimile of either? The two of you were going to get lunch (shawarma) when the call comes through. Government agents are coming to the office to shut it down — possibly also to arrest you. This should be terrifying but […]
You’ve gone undercover to try to take down a local gang that’s selling drugs in your community. (Think classic 1970s motorcycle gang, not The Wire-era Baltimore street gang.) You’re fairly certain they’re responsible for your father’s death — and this is how you’ll seek your vengeance. You have taken your patient time to earn their […]
I’ve been quiet on this site lately, I know. I tried to write more in 2024 but the habit has been a hard one to pick back up again. Trying to enumerate the factors seems silly, but I think it mostly boils down to: write something when you have something to say. Well, today I […]
Ten years ago today, a good friend came over and we brewed a beer together. “Felicitas” was the first of many over the next several years.
As I continue to wax nostalgic for the days when I was brewing “a lot” (oh say… twice a month?) — the thought occurred to me to reflect on the beers that became my favorites. The ones I was most proud of, or else became in some way obsessed with. There were certainly quite a […]
Earlier this year, my friend Kyle organized a mead study group which was not unlike the 2017-2018 BJCP study group. 1 And while this study group did discuss aspects of mead judging, it was more like a tasting group than one focused on earning the BJCP Mead Judge endorsement. I don’t mean this as a […]
While a more thorough re-telling of my homebrewing hiatus seems worthy of its own post someday, in the spirit of writing more and trying to keep that running log of my brewing adventures here (it’s been a while!), I’ve decided to summarize the brewing I’ve managed to do since returning to Vermont in 2021.
To put it bluntly: I’ve let this blog languish for the last couple of years. While topics had narrowed down to be almost exclusively about #homebrewing since about 2015 or so, my time in Washington and COVID and a few other things derailed just about everything for me. Writing for this thing was definitely not […]
I love you, Jess. (This post retroactively posted to be roughly the time we said our vows.)