Right About Beer

WordPress can be a fickle format, and some of my recent posts appeared out-of-order but actually in order based on the date of their drafting. It’s hard to keep this blog linear when I intend on visiting places multiple times before writing about them, and – as I’ve lamented in depth – it’s a challenge…

Sometimes things work out as planned, and you’re left almost wishing plan B had been needed. You know how it goes – you make the best plans with the best of intentions, knowing full well something is going to go wrong along the way that will probably diminish or change the responsibilities you thought you…

There’s never been a time in my life when I couldn’t duck out for a pint on a patio somewhere with some shade and maybe a light breeze, and this afternoon is no exception – I’m sitting in the expansive outdoor area of Flock of Moons brewing in Albuquerque, one of the most-recommended  microbreweries in…

That’s the tagline for one of my favorite beers from ABQ, one of the OG IPAs that popped up when there were still new hop profiles to entertain the tongue. Elevated has a big malt base with a rustic but dry hop profile. A nice thick head sticks around and a resinous finish lingers. It’s…

SItting in a sunny spot at the bar in a central-ish part of Albuquerque. There were pedestrian obstacles wandering the streets nearby, oblivious to my desire to get a cold pint in my hand ASAP. It’s not that I was in a hurry, but once I’ve made up my mind to get serious about beer,…

I’m sitting in the relaxing, shaded beer garden of Ex Novo, another recent addition to the Albuquerque brewing scene, drinking a honey-lavender kolsch that is uniquely sweet and flowery. It’s got a fragrant head that reminds me of ‘relaxing bath soap’ and the lavender is the dominant flavor of this one. Slightly hazy in the…

This morning, I packed up my collection of pint glasses again. It’s a fairly modest collection compared to what I had a few years ago, when an accident resulted in ‘broken everything’ I owned. I’ve picked up more than a few in the year and a half since then, and they’re usually the last thing…

Incoming transmissions. Mega life changes and new beers to talk about. Stay tuned.

The last year and a half has been…/interesting, in that way the Chinese proverb warns; It’s been traumatic, and stressful, and confused, with some triumphs and more disappointment than I’d have liked. The end result is another dozen months of lost time making any progress whatsoever towards the kinds of things most people take for…

When I first moved to Oregon, I lived in a friend’s basement on the ‘inner’ east side of downtown Portland – but only after a short stint in another basement of a house optimistically labeled as the ‘house of homebrew’ on google maps (it’s still there). I had moved here with ambition, and it was…