musing

Send the posse ofter the guys in this rather scary photo.

Disregarding the sometimes ominous hints in the sphbc Twitter feed I’m off to the National Homebrewers Conference in Minnesota. I’m not even going to pretend I’ll have the time or the inclination to manage posts from Minneapolis.

I will try to ship a few pictures to my Posterous “site.” Those should also show up in my Twitter feed, so I am replicating it on the right for the duration of the conference. I may also add direct tweets. Otherwise I hope that regular transmissions (including to you rss subscribers) will resume Monday. If not, you have a photo of the suspects.

Meanwhile, a bit about the next book project.

Quaffable.

Recycle Week will soon be about (June 21-27) in England and for whatever reason RecycleNow thinks I’m a good one to tell you about it.

So even though not many of you live in the United Kingdom I’m passing along a couple of videos about what happens to bottles and cans once they are picked up and delivered to the local recycling facility because recycling is good for all of us.

You may now resume emptying those bottles and cans.

Remember the plan for an ongoing Minister of Pubs in England? Big with CAMRA.

Seems like the role was short-lived. (Thanks to @pintsofview for noticing.)

Evan Rail writes about his plans for Beer Culture, which has been dark since last fall.

I hope to write more stories — to tell the tale of how something happened, in other words. How a beer got made, imported or drunk. To tell you who did it and why. And at the same time, I hope to add some light to the history of beer in central Europe: there is simply too much that hasn’t been written about the beer culture here, certainly not in English, and I have to imagine that you, as a reader, would be much more interested in reading those stories than in hearing my personal reactions. You can find personal reactions anywhere. But good stories? Those are hard to come by.

Focus. What a great idea. Perhaps I should try that.