Up close, personal, and signing books

The following could be considered an advertisement. As a small reward for reading on I’m offering a super secret Great American Beer Festival tip at the end. None of this matters at all if you won’t be in Denver next week for GABF.

I’ll be pouring few beers and signing books at GABF. If you own Brewing With Wheat or Brew Like a Monk bring your copy to the festival and I’ll sign your books (or books). Of course they’ll also be for sale. If you just want to stop by and just say hello that’s also OK. If you want a baseball card signed, well, I’ll be happy to. Maybe an Ernie Banks card — one of my favorites.

Check out the full schedule — lots of people signing in the bookstore. My times:

Thursday, 8-9 p.m.
Friday, 7-8 p.m.
Saturday, 3-3:30 p.m.
Saturday, 7-7:30 p.m.

The schedule says I’ll be there at 6:30 on Saturday, but that was changed because I’ll be sitting on the “Craft Beer in the Media” panel in the Brewers Studio Pavilion from 6:30 to 7.

Now to the matter of pouring beer and that super secret tip. About (that means don’t yell at me if I’m late) half an hour before I sign books Thursday and Friday and an hour earlier on Saturday evening I’ll be hanging out at the Support Your Local Brewery Pavilion, talking about and pouring wheat beers in the New Mexico Brewers booth. The tip: they will have artisan cheeses in the pavilion . . . “while samples last.”