Today a beer my friend Craig describes as “mysterious.”
Beer: Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat
Brewer: The Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
Source: 12 oz. bottle
Rating: ** (6.3 of 10)
Comments: I first encountered Leinenkugel’s at Miller Field (ironically) in Milwaukee. I enjoyed being able to have a decent beer for a reasonable price at a ballpark (reasonable being a relative thing). [...]
Archive for August, 2008
29 Aug
Beer Review: Leinenkugel’s Sunset Wheat
27 Aug
Beer Review: Samuel Adams Hefeweizen
Today a beer from that local brewery down the street in Jamaica Plain, Sam Adams (albeit much of their beer is brewed out of state).
Beer: Samuel Adams Hefeweizen
Brewer: Boston Beer Company
Source: 12 oz. bottle
Rating: ** (6.9 of 10)
Comments: Hefeweizen is one of my favorite beer styles, and this is an average Hefeweizen. It’s got the [...]
26 Aug
Lazy Blogger
Crikey! I just opened mine eyes, and lo! I have not updated this since long before Shakespeare wast a boy… You would not believe how terribly tardy the Victorian internet can be. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!.
I am lost in a sea of pseudo-olde-english with only your readership as life [...]
24 Aug
Boston By Foot Tour of the Month: Ashmont Hill Sneak Preview!
I’m a big supporter and participant in Boston By Foot’s Tours of the Month. Usually, I post photos and commentary after the tour. This time I’m posting a sneak preview of a tour coming up next Sunday, August 31st at 2 pm: Ashmont Hill. If you come on the Red Line, make sure to exist [...]
23 Aug
Favorite Albums by Year
There’s a meme I’ve seen on some other blogs about listing one’s favorite albums from each year of one’s life (example: Nicholas Carr’s Rough Type). The rules are one album per year and the same artist/band cannot be repeated. The rules make for some interesting choices. For example, I found myself really scraping to find [...]
22 Aug
1908 Night
I remember the summer of 1983, because that was the year when my mother, sister and I spent almost every Friday night at Quassy Amusement Park in Middlebury, CT. We went in the afternoon to swim in Lake Quassapaug, swim out to the float, and enjoy a picnic supper. Once the sun started to set, [...]
21 Aug
Book Review: The Fabric of America by Andro Linklater
The Fabric of America: how our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity (2007) by Andro Linklater is built on a thesis that the idea of the United States being defined by the frontier and rugged individualism – with Frederick Jackson Turner as a major proponent – is not true. Instead [...]
15 Aug
Book Review: A Pocketful of History by Jim Noles
A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America — One State Quarter at a Time (2008) by Jim Noles takes the State Quarter Program as a launching point for an engaging look at the 50 United States and the symbols chosen to represent them. Often, Noles goes beyond simply telling the history of the [...]
15 Aug
Book Review: New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg
Following up on Ric Burns’ New York, I read New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (2007) edited by one of the stars of that series Marshall Berman and Brian Berger.
This collection of essays looks back with some nostalgia and some disgust at the City in the 70s, 80s, & 90s. For most of the [...]
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