Here Comes the Beer

I’m going to be shifting gears and focusing, almost exclusively, on homebrewing and beer. In an effort to more narrowly define my site and hopefully find a focused niche, I won’t be posting about all of my interests anymore. Nobody’s a pro at it all, except maybe Tom Waits, and I ain’t Tom Waits.

I’m currently trying to find a new home (read: blog) for The Box of Vinyl Project (only one rejection so far) because I think the idea is too much fun, and hopefully, to you guys, interesting, to quit altogether. If you know of a blog that it might fit in well with, let me know. I’ll definitely send them a proposal to pick it up. And I thought submitting to literary magazines was hard. Sheee-it.

So from now on, you can look to Typed Slowly for all of your fermentation-related interests and also to satisfy your time-killing urge at your terrible job (everybody’s job sucks–yours is no different–unless you’re Jim Koch) by reading about beer. Fun, fun, fun. Yes, yes, yes.

Having said that, I’ll probably manage to sneak in a post about a book, record, show, film, internet video, or lawn-mowing experience every once in a while–while Kirby’s not looking. Mum’s the word.

On the sunny side, I’m starting another feature to fill the canyon-like void that will be left by The Box of Vinyl Project. We’ll call it (adopt Don LaFontaine’s voice (look him up)) Drinking It All. The title sounds a bit more Dionysian than it actually is. I’ll be setting out on a mission to try every beer I can get my hands on. I realize I’ve set myself up for failure from the beginning (it’s tragically flawed); I can’t possibly drink every beer made. But I’m goddamn gonna try. It’ll be fun. I’ll drink beers you wouldn’t consider smelling. I’ll drink beers I wouldn’t normally consider smelling. Emphasis on the drinking here, not the smelling. I’ll take suggestions and I’ll make suggestions. It’ll be educational. Economical. Inspirational. Farcical. It’ll be about beer.

It’s fixing to all be about beer.

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