Today, I sat in the sunshine with my little dog and my special chair and I opened my bottle of 2020 vintage ale. Continue reading →

I started a new job with a brand-new startup. An old life is ending as a new life begins. Continue reading →

Fuller’s Extra Special Bitter is the second best beer in the world. Continue reading →

One thousand years later, beer is still excellent and the song is still fantastic. Continue reading →

…my life story. They’ll write it at the New Old Lompoc. Same as I did. Possibly the best beer I have ever had in America.

I have been going to the weekly presentations at Xerox Parc on and off for several years. This one – next Thursday – looks like the best one yet. Brewing is the original biotechnology. For 6-8,000 years it has been … Continue reading →

I had Spanish for lunch today with Jeff and we went with the paella negre. I was expecting something with a certain tinge of blackness but it turned out to be very black indeed. All afternoon I have had a … Continue reading →

Lager shandies at 7 years old. Pints of lager by 12. At 16, I became a man and switched to bitter. A little after that I had my first craft brew – Marsden’s Old Thumper – and never looked back. … Continue reading →