Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II, Part 42): Barr built the bar, and the Guinness began pouring.
Music?
That’s right, music.
After all, this series is meant to be autobiographical.
At the risk of pretentiousness, what I’m doing here is writing a book about me, a little at a time, and you are reading the essays that eventually will revert to being rough drafts, then rewritten, and hopefully combined into something bigger.
Beer certainly provides a unifying theme to the exercise, and undeniably beer has been the focus of my life for a good long while. It might still be, albeit not as pervasively as before. Knowledge itself never really goes out of fashion, although receptivity to certain bits of knowledge surely does, which has the lamentable effect of marginalizing the knowledgeable (in short, welcome to the decrepit condition of “beer knowledge” in 2024).
The part that matters most to me is that throughout a beer-themed adult life, I’ve never consumed, sold or marketed beer in a simplistic vacuum, to the exclusion of my other interests, like history, travel, books, walks, geography, food, bike rides – and...Read more
