If you’re going to have a craft beer blog, since it is such a crowded space, it is best to at least have a niche. A focus. I need to get focused. What the hell am I going to do here?
What This Blog Won’t Be.
This is not going to be a beer review blog. That does not mean I won’t be posting about a beer I’ve tried for the first time, or maybe a beer I have had that still inspires a post. But it won’t be a traditional review. I just don’t have it in me.
Naming off accurate (or not so accurate) tasting notes is not my thing. I can’t figure it out. Part of it is I have always found it to be too pretentious for beer. Getting three or four flavor notes deep into a beer feels wrong. Feels like a wine geek kinda thing.
It’s Not One Of The Things That Drew Me To Craft Beer.
Maybe that’s why I resist training myself to be better at tasting beer. But it’s more likely that I am just lazy. I’d like to be Cicerone Certified someday (at least at a server level), but that will be later. For now (and probably forever), no boring reviews. They have their place, I read some of those blogs and listen to some of those podcasts, but you won’t see it here.
The “reviews” will be more like “This beer is making me feel things. I want to miss work for the next few days and just stare into the woods with this beer by my side.”
Hopefully, you enjoy that sort of thing.
What Will This Blog Be?
A different kind of focus on craft beer. On being a beer geek. The kind of focus that will help you not let a drink ticket go unused. Like the one pictured at the top of this post that I let go unused at this year’s Fresyes Fest. Sacrilegious!
Humor. That’s what you’ll find here. Attempting to be funny anyway. A mix of humor and focus. Both for you and me. Helping focus our lives as beer geeks, no matter where we are on that timeline.
How to never leave a good beer behind or a drink ticket unused.
