Cheers!

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I've started a number of blogs in my day. These have mostly been for personal/family use (more like journals shared with a select few), but I think I need someone looking over my shoulder to push me to post more. And I also need a muse. What better muse to loosen these lips (or limber up these fingers as it were) than booze? More specifically, my favorite type of booze: BEER!

So, here we go. Another blog. This time it'll chronicle my experiences with beer with a focus on the Ithaca, the surrounding Finger Lakes (FLX) region, and beyond. It seems there isn't a lot of attention spent around here on promoting what's happening in Ithaca--or maybe I'm just not as looped in as I was in Houston--and I think that's a damn shame. Let's change that! After all, beer people are good people.

I'll post beer reviews, brewery reviews, my occasional two cents on the beer industry, and everything in- and out-between. I'm also on twitter: @ITHbeerguy

Cheers!

“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain —
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”



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