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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On May 18, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> I went to the recesses of the basement and there amid the cobweb  
> festooned
> experimental jars of pickled gooseberries and marinated radish  
> leaves were two
> dusty bottles of a batch of homebrew from many moons ago.  It turned  
> out to be
> the Black and Evil bew, so called because I negleted the malt and it  
> darkened
> into a sort of ... eh ... charcoal.   But the beer was excellent,  
> five years
> ago.  Beer doesn't age well like wine and it was still OK, but just  
> OK, but
> plenty good enough to inspire a snort of distain in the direction of  
> the beer
> companies or the universe, whichever, little odds.
>
> So here on this day of the full moon I have taken vows in the order  
> of St.
> Arnold, the vows of poverty .... eh .... fermentation ... ah ... and  
> indulgence.
> Yeah, that's the ticket!

Well spoken! Er, drunk! Well, whatever.

Rising price. They blame it on the hops. They blame it on  
transportation costs. They blame it on inflation. Huh! James has it  
right: a proper homesteader makes his own!

By the way, upon both Internet and personal basement research I have  
concluded that beer, some beer, especially high voltage beer, does in  
fact not only keep, but improve with age.

And I will drink to that also.