Although I for the day when I can turn on WFAN and not have to hear some caller reaming LeBron James for not coming to NY/going to Miami/leaving Cleveland or any other number of reasons, I have to give credit to the Great Lakes Brewing Company in Ohio.

The Cleveland-based brewery created a beer they call Quitness.  The brew is a cask conditioned IPA “that is as bitter as the mood of Cleveland these days!”

Kudos to the brewers at Great Lakes for coming up with a clever response to this King James hysteria. 

Here’s the second installment of my ongoing journal about the brewing life.  Head over to Beeriety to check it out:

Brew School: Changing the Way I Drink

I’ve recently be given the honor of leading Saturday brew tours at Chelsea.  Not only is this awesome in its own right, but it gives me some stability in my schedule and means that I don’t have to wait tables Saturdays! 

Unfortunately, I’ve been in the restaurant business for the majority of my working life so I forgot just how much I dislike weekend crowds.  I went out for a few pints after my last tour and as the time rolled away a whole slew of misfits, bros and overly made-up ladies paraded in and proceeded to simultaneously entertain and irritate me.  It still baffles me just how much energy all those Monday through Friday-ers have pent up and decide to vent all at once at whatever bar I choose to attend on the weekend. 

I’ll eventually get used to this, but in the meantime I can ignore this snafu in my new schedule and invite all the willing and able to hit up the Chelsea brewing Company every Saturday for brewery tours hosted by yours truly.  Tours start on at 2pm and begin on the hour until 6pm.  Just remember I am pretty much obligated to partake in the sudsy stuff while dropping beer knowledge on you so once the 6 o’clock tour rolls around I’m feeling pretty good. 

Just saying…

Sometimes you can’t fight the thirst…

While it may seem that I’ve faltered on my promise to document my time learning the brewing trade, I would like to direct you to the fine website Beeriety. 

Beeriety is a fantastically informative beer and brewing  website run by a few friends of mine in Boston.  Their goal with the site is to educate casual beer drinkers about the finer and more interesting points about the bubbly, fermented beverage. 

Beeriety’s main writer, Carleton, asked me to keep a running log while I undergo my transformation from sniveling brewing wannabe to dashing and world-renown brewmaster.  Although I’ll have to wait years to see if I can successfully reach this goal, you can read about what it’s really like to start at the bottom of the brewing totem pole here!