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potential vacation, day 1

Hello from Maybe-Land folks! The idea today is to leave our friends’ hospitality in Austin behind, and head out to Eola, Texas to visit the Eola School Restaurant, Brewery and Lodge. It comes highly...

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trip recap

I’ll try and keep this as brief as possible. I had a blast! I just want to give a few highlights and let you know where we diverged from the “potential vacation” posts you saw. (Not much.) Friday night...

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book beginnings on Friday: Dethroning the King

Thanks to Katy at A Few More Pages for hosting this meme. To participate: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading on your blog or in the comments. Include the title and the...

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Teaser Tuesdays: Dethroning the King

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: * Grab your current read * Open to a random page * Share two (2) “teaser”...

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Dethroning the King: the hostile takeover of Anheuser-Busch, an American...

Wow. Where to begin? I found this book riveting, cover to cover. I took my time, and I took breaks, and I read other books – all this is true. But my interest in this one never waned. I have been...

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quick miscellany

Link: I discovered a tumblr the other day that I fell in love with. Check it out: Awesome People Reading. My favorites include Sid Vicious, Kurt Cobain, and Steve McQueen just for their incongruity;...

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Teaser Tuesdays: Houston Beer by Ronnie Crocker

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include...

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Houston Beer: A Heady History of Brewing in the Bayou City by Ronnie Crocker

If you know anything about me, you should realize that Houston + beer = I will read your book. I am so enthused about my hometown, and about beer, and about my hometown beer (that is experiencing a...

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great beer quotations in literature: Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant

Friends, I proudly come from a family of beer lovers, and have my eyes peeled not only for bicycle quotations in the books I read, but for those concerned with beer as well. I dipped into my very first...

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beer and books

Well. This is about as easy as it gets: 13 of the Best Literary Quotes About Beer were clearly compiled with me specifically in mind. From beer brewed by “noble twins… in their divine alevats, cunning...

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Teaser Tuesdays: We Make Beer: Inside the Spirit and Artistry of America’s...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. I was all over this title, as you can imagine. (Husband would like to point out that “we” don’t make beer. He does. I am...

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Teaser Tuesdays: The Brewer’s Tale by William Bostwick

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. “A history of the world according to beer”! Who’s surprised that I needed to read this? There is no great shortage of...

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We Make Beer: Inside the Spirit and Artistry of America’s Craft Brewers by...

Anecdotes and observations of American craft brewing that will make readers thirsty. Sean Lewis was working as a sportswriter in 2010 when he got his first writing assignment from Beer Advocate–a...

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The Brewer’s Tale by William Bostwick

The influence of beer in history, and the more and less delicious forms it’s taken along the way. In The Brewer’s Tale, homebrewer William Bostwick (Beer Craft) examines beer in history and the history...

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Brewing Revolution: Pioneering the Craft Beer Movement by Frank Appleton

This personal history of Canada’s craft beer movement, from a distinctive and accomplished participant, amuses as well as instructs. Books on craft beer and the craft beer movement abound, and readers...

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