Candice Ivory and her band rip it up at King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas
It’s time to harvest cotton in the Delta, and picking cotton looks much different than picking hops
Drive-By Truckers cast giant shadows at Overton Park Shell in Memphis
Happy Indigenous People’s day. Daria and I had a busy weekend out and about in the Mississippi and Arkansas Deltas. We got knocked to the ground by a car just walking (with the light) across a Memphis street, but otherwise had too good a time to be yammering on here. Pleasure was always top of mind, so starting there again this week.
A formula for pleasure. Search for the word wine. Replace it with beer.
Thump! Rattle, scrape. Thump! Rattle, scrape. Thanks to @thebeernut for pointing to this story on X (just when you think you are out a gem like this suck you back in). In case you woke this morning thinking “Why cork bags?” Now you know.
Love hops? Love lager? Or if you woke up this morning wondering what defines a West Coast Pilsner, here you go.
Duff in the real world. That’s my Duff luggage tag. It is the second one I’ve owned. Not sure if the first one accidentally came off in transit or was stolen.
Is cask ale right wing, left wing, both, or neither? You can have the same discussion about “craft beer” in the US. In fact, Dave Infante has in his Substack. Ask a subscriber to forward you a copy, or subscribe yourself.
What comes after umami? Scholars have discovered evidence of a sixth basic taste. This is very early research and nobody is talking about the implications of what this might mean for understanding more about how we taste beer.
GABF streamed. The Beer Crunchers GABF Running Diary is much more coherent than I would have managed. “Go for the people, the conversations, the research, the inspiration, and the chance to get out of dodge and reset your mind a bit.”