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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Figured I would make something happen

So. I need to say that I have been drinking a boat load of new stuff since my last post way back when, and likely too many to remember and post here. I have been frequenting Poor Henry's, and talking beer and whiskey with the owners son and finding a lot of new stuff. Sour Belgians and hoppy godliness has been the brunt of it, but i had one that was by far the best beer that I have ever tasted. This beer is the Nelson Sauvin Brut, brewed with hops that were grown in between Sauvignon Blanc grape vines, picking up the terroir of the casks they are aged in. The brewers are the boys at Mikeller. These boys really are savants with hops, yeast and malt. The things they do with beer as a side project would make serious brewers wet themselves thinking about how they do it. As far as I know, they are a couple Belgians that brew in the US at the Flying Dog brewery releasing several great things as well as a single hop varietal IPA series that I plan to record and post about at a later date.

Also, a plug for myself. I got an email from the director of my beverage program at JWU, Ed Korry saying that a reporter is looking for a success story from the beverage program and he thought of me. so i sent my info and I got a phone call. About 10 mins later, I got off the phone and didn't think about it until just this morning. Logging onto Facebook, I found I had a wall post from Kimmy Allman, a frosh at JWU that worked at the club the past couple of summers telling me about an article that is being passed around the university, this article being the one I was interviewed for. So, life goes on, I am published here(click) and in a recipe book with recipes that involve the use of tea. I am now out there and hoping shamelessly that someone will pick up on that and think of me and my passion for the industry and give me an offer.
     Cheers to the longshot!

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