’Tis the season of “best of” lists.
I am a list skeptic, but I read them, I contribute to them, I and talk about them (“How is James McMurtry’s ‘The Horses and the Hounds’ not on more best lists?).
I realized as the lists started to roll out in recent weeks that I miss Bryan Roth’s annual effort to add objectivity to subjective choices. I’m too lazy to do something similar, but I did start saving lists a while back with the idea of posting them here in one giant listicle of listicles. Then I came to my senses.
Instead, I’ll simply point to two well-done ones — the year in review at DC Beer and the Axios survey of Colorado beers — and suggest you look for something similar close to where you drink.
MORE ’TIS THE SEASON
Boak and Bailey’s notes from London the week before Christmas . . . sigh. We were there four years ago, but it feels like it was a decade.
THE BEAT GOES ON
– A victory for the not so little guy.
ALWAYS FOR PLEASURE
The weekend before Christmas I posted a few photos from the Hot Bierfest at Primitive Beer in Boulder. There appears to be some interest in sticking a hot poker in beer, because I got a message from a brewer asking if I knew where to buy the pokers. So this post at Punch seems timely.