Food and Drink

This ongoing craze escaped my notice: pumpkin beer craze [http://www.kansascity.com/food/story/338950.html]. > Although the colonists, including President George Washington, made pumpkin beer, the seasonal brew essentially disappeared from brewers' repertoire. It wasn't until 1986 that Bill Owens, owner of Buffalo Bill&

I crashed early last night, around 8:45, and zonked out. At 9:30, the town's tornado siren (which can also serve as a nuclear attack siren and 5:00 drinking time notice), went off. I helped bundle the three smallest downstairs, while yelling to the two middles

My monthly column is up at The Register and it's about beer: What's Brewing in the Blogosphere? [http://ncregister.com/site/article/6289/] Subscription required. Excerpt: > Most every well-read Christian has heard of the Inklings, the literary group that counted J.R.R. Tolkien and

Gorgeous evening at the drinking club. It was my first trip in over a month, work and kid obligations having kept me distracted from drinking chores. After 90 minutes there, I came home, opened a microbrew, and sat on the front porch with Marie and listened to a new Diana

Drink one on the 30th in memory of Michael Jackson, the Beer Hunter [http://michaeljacksonthebeerhunter.blogspot.com/]. It's also a fundraiser, with proceeds going to the National Parkinson Foundation. I can't advise anybody to send money to NPF without knowing its position on fetal stem cells

Not much today. I'm a little behind the time eight-ball because I took my wife to see Hairspray [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809751355/info] last night. I recommend it, though it's definitely more for yins. My local theater [http://strand4.com/] recently raised its ticket

Not much today. I'm off work and hope to get some serious writing done . . . in addition to going to Mass, attending tonight's high school football opener with my football-wild sons, helping with my daughter's birthday party (she became a teenager yesterday; she hasn'

Now you're just taking all the fun out of beer: 1st International Brewers Symposium Hop Flavor and Aroma [http://www.mbaa.com/ibs/program.htm]. __________ Pretty neat site: Here's to Beer [http://herestobeer.com/]. You have to input your age (prove you're over 21)