just making a living v.328 As much as I talk about this blog I haven’t done anything great for it in over 2 years. I shelved my panicked pre-pandemic post (much of which was more accurate than I’d have liked given the date I wrote it) and need to get something up here so…here it…
The season that never ends – Beerfest Season
I sit in my trailer and listen to the waves of rain wash over it, just another day living near the Oregon coast, a few miles from the mouth of the Columbia. This little finger of land sits in the direct path of the river itself, but has been turned over the decades into more…
THIS IS NOT A LISTICLE
As the end of a year – and the end of decade, in case you missed it – comes to an end, the internet is awash in listicles – top-10 lists of the best of the year and decade, so basically double the laziness of any given end of year sprint to stuff empty content…
A Fort-tuitous meeting
On the bucket list for quite some time – basically not long after I got to Portland – Fort George Brewing sits in historic Astoria just a few feet from the old site that Is said to have been the original ground of the first ‘European’ settlers to the area in…some far distant past. I’ll…
Fogged Window Thoughts Fri, 11/22
This is as much a personal project as anything, but it’d be nice to turn my love of beer into more than a passing hobby. I moved to Portland to immerse myself in the beer, and I have enjoyed the long soak – but not really the everyday struggles to get through life. Many of…
Place and State – Beer
It’s been a long time coming, this moment in time…all roads lead to this as it were. In this universe, I’m not exactly the rich man I might have dreamt of years ago, but I’ve had a good run so far. One of the things I’ve learned over those years is the singular joy of the right pint at the right time and the right place. It’s not a hard thing…