Please fellow bloggers of all things beer and malty goodness, forgive my absence for the past few weeks. It is getting easier to get wrapped up in the day to day things. From work to home, there never seems to be enough time. My philosophy: take the time!
Take the time to go out and have a burger with that long lost friend of yours! Take time to play with your children! Take time to take your wife out, even if it is to the local greasy spoon. In an age where there is no good news, make your own small victories at home count for something. When you go to bed at night, or during the day depending on what shift you work, let the tension ease out of your bones and try and realize that there are a lot of wonderful things out there that you enjoy. From a round of golf with friends to a Saturday night gathering of friends with good food and good conversation. In a time when all is bleak and even the most upbeat people are whispering depression in their minds, enjoy what you have! Enjoy the chance to get out of work early and surprise your wife with a rose! Enjoy watching the re-runs of Third Watch at night from your DVR. Enjoy that Bob Dylan song! Enjoy watching Tiger get beat on the 18th hole by some guy named Johhny Bertrand! Enjoy listening to the Detroit Tigers on the radio on their way to another World Series berth! Suck up all life when and where you can. Enjoy every single breath of it that has been given to you. And most importantly: Enjoy your beer!
I have been dubbed a beer snob by a lot of my friends and aquaintences. Even though I can appreciate a $18/6pack of Hopslam from Bell's it doesn't mean that I can't the $3/6pack Red/White and Blue either. Believe me, I have had my share, and his share-and his share-and his sha......, you get the picture, of $8 cases of Pabst, Milwaukee's Best, Blatz, Black Label, and Hamm's. There is something very refreshing and very soul cleansing about walking into a local tavern and seeing a Goebel's tap behind the bar. Usually very cheap and very mild, these American brews of yester-year provide the thirst quenching, and buzz enhanced, relief that we all need these days.
Sit a 6 pack of Sierra Nevada and a 6 pack of Olympia next to each other and ask me which one I would rather drink? Not really a hard choice, but if I was the one who lost the toss and the SN was chosen by the other guy, I would take that 6 pack of Olympia and get down with my bad self. Beer, my fine gentlemen, is really beer in the end. It all contains the same ingriedients and all comes in a bottle or a can. It all provides a little much needed laughter and kicked back feeling that we seem to all be missing these days. Whatever beer sits in your fridge, pantry, back porch, etc, ENJOY IT IMMENSELY!
Enjoyed by myself in the last few weeks have been a wide array of diferent brews. All Michigan, all very simple, and all very much enjoyable. Whatever state you live in, whatever local brewery supplies you with your indulgence, drink it up! In an economy where many businesses are shutting their doors, take time to recognize your local brewery and the people that work there. All fine, hardworking folks that make it their business to make your day a little more enjoyable.
sweet dude
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