My session starts with a beer run to Out Of The Barrel to pick up some cans for the next two days. I refrained from getting a beer there ‘cause I had to get back to the family with lunch. ?
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3:30 PM
Drinking has begun!
Bay of Plenty from Almanac
A 6.5 hazy that is very light on the haze. It was a label buy. Pretty forgettable.
5:00 ish:
Humble Sea Brewing
Variant of Humble’s Socks & Sandals (Pineapple). I thought I was going to like it more.
I went to my neighborhood bottleshop today and noticed some new beers from a brewery I had never heard of called Hello Friend.
Normally I am too tight with my beer budget to risk trying something from new breweries, but today I had some rare cash to take chances with.
I look for beers with Mosaic hops first off and this brewery had several with Mosaic – if you’re a brewery that uses a lot of Mosaic you are already pulling me in, brother.
Over the past few days I have had four of their beers. One I forgot ??♂️, but the other three were:
I’ll At Ease.
Nothing’s Never Forever.
Till I Crumble.
If I had to choose my favorite of the four three… Till I Crumble. But they are all nice beers.
Come to find out this is a brewery operating out of Berkeley’s the Rare Barrel. They are on the property but have their own “area” I suppose.
I think it’s a good idea to make a separate brewery in your own brewery, if you want to make a different style beer with its own marketing.
If you are interested and in California, you can get their beer here.
I am not a long-form writing kind of guy so it makes sense that I have nothing even worth mentioning – as far as the North American Guild of Beer Writers is concerned anyway.
After reading through all the winners, one thing is clear: they looooove love love long articles.
Lots of words = good blogging.
Blog or newsletter creativeness? BORING! Long stories with puffy and fussy words? Sign NAGBW up!
Am I bitter and longing for acknowledgment? I don’t think so? Maybe subconsciously. But if I am being honest, I get inspired by lack of acknowledgment. Makes me want to post even more.
The NAGBW does have ONE category I would have a shot in: Short Form.
Appropriate that their short form category has the least amount of award winners: three.
Was three all the entries they had or do they just not respect that category enough to even bother posting more? ??♂️
Maybe next year I can convince them to create a “Kinda Cool” blog or newsletter category.
Anyway, like I said, I kind of get-off on the people considered the best in the field, not giving a shit or not aware enough to know what is happening on the small indie blogs.
When you’re a never-award-winning blogger and newsletter writer, sometimes being an unknown crank is all you have.
