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10 YEARS OF HOMEBREWING

¶ August 16, 2024 by Rob Friesel


Ten years ago today, a good friend came over and we brewed a beer together.
“Felicitas” was the first of many over the next several years.

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5 FAVORITE BEERS FROM WHEN I WAS BREWING A LOT

¶ May 30, 2024 by Rob Friesel

As I continue to wax nostalgic for the days when I was brewing “a lot” (oh say…
twice a month?) — the thought occurred to me to reflect on the beers that became
my favorites. The ones I was most proud of, or else became in some way obsessed
with. There were certainly quite a few that were “very good” (even “excellent”)
but these were the ones I couldn’t get out of my head.


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REFLECTION ON THE 2024 MEAD STUDY GROUP

¶ April 30, 2024 by Rob Friesel

Earlier this year, my friend Kyle organized a mead study group which was not
unlike the 2017-2018 BJCP study group. 1 And while this study group did discuss
aspects of mead judging, it was more like a tasting group than one focused on
earning the BJCP Mead Judge endorsement. I don’t mean this as a criticism — just
an observation of how it played out.

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 1. Nor the 2022-2023 study group that I ran but didn’t write about.[]

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A BRIEF SUMMARY OF RECENT BREWING

¶ March 31, 2024 by Rob Friesel

While a more thorough re-telling of my homebrewing hiatus seems worthy of its
own post someday, in the spirit of writing more and trying to keep that running
log of my brewing adventures here (it’s been a while!), I’ve decided to
summarize the brewing I’ve managed to do since returning to Vermont in 2021.


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TRYING TO WRITE MORE IN 2024

¶ February 23, 2024 by Rob Friesel

To put it bluntly: I’ve let this blog languish for the last couple of years.
While topics had narrowed down to be almost exclusively about #homebrewing since
about 2015 or so, my time in Washington and COVID and a few other things
derailed just about everything for me. Writing for this thing was definitely not
a priority.

I’d like to change that this year. I’d like to be doing more writing, and this
is about as good a venue as any. And I’d like to get back onto a cadence of
at-least-once-per-month. Even if I’m cheating a bit — like with this
quasi-meta-post about posting. (I suppose the redemption there is that I’m
trying to be publicly accountable to that otherwise semi-private goal.)

‘Til next time…

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GOT MARRIED

¶ January 27, 2024 by Rob Friesel


I love you, Jess.

(This post retroactively posted to be roughly the time we said our vows.)

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CHAOS OR COMMUNITY?

¶ January 15, 2024 by Rob Friesel


In the week or so leading up to this Martin Luther King Jr. Day of 2024, it
occurred to me that I had never read any of his “full length” works — only
essays, excerpts, and speech transcripts. I wanted to understand more about him
and his legacy. I wanted to hear his message more fully, and to engage with it
directly rather than having it mediated through a high school teacher or some
media columnist.

I no longer recall how this book came to be the one on my “to read” list, but it
also seemed fitting to read his last work — as a kind of sign post of his
thinking before we lost his leadership.

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2023 RECAP

¶ December 29, 2023 by Rob Friesel

Part year-in-review, part brag sheet, part best things and stuff, part
tap-the-microphone “is this thing on?” life support post for this, my
much-neglected blog. It’s been a few years since the last time I did one of
these, and several of those were pretty hard years — but now seemed like the
perfect time to get back to it. So without further preambles: a look back on my
2023, in no particular order…


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BOOK REVIEW: JUST RIDE

¶ May 30, 2022 by Rob Friesel


At the age of 41, while living in Bellingham, WA, I decided to “spend too much
money” on a mountain bike. It had been about 2 years since I’d owned a bike, and
(if I’m being honest) probably about 10 years since I’d done any riding. I was
going through a tough time (pandemic + some personal stuff) and figured that
maybe I could buy myself some happiness in the form of a nice mountain bike —
take up a new active hobby, take advantage of the apparently excellent local
trails, and distract myself from the essential mundane horrors of my life.

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DREAM.20220504: RICE KRISPIE TREAT PAIRINGS

¶ May 4, 2022 by Rob Friesel

You’ve been sent on an assignment to ascertain the perfect cocktail pairing for
a Rice Krispie Treat. You’ve been to too many of these places already but what’s
one more? You repeat your now banal-seeming request: “I’ll have the house Rice
Krispie Treat and whatever cocktail pairing you usually recommend.” This
particular bartender opens with a couple of finer points about Rice Krispie
Treat doneness, going so far as to demonstrate the differences between a
too-brittle over-cooked example vs. a gooey and flaccid “rare” one vs. a supple
but sturdy “medium-rare RKT”.

The cocktail pairing comes out in a Tom Collins glass. It’s ivory-colored and
creamy. Garnished with an orange twist coiled around a cinnamon stick. It tastes
like chai and vanilla and subtly of rum.

You swoon. It is the perfect pairing. Em Sauter overhears this and rushes over
to confirm. (She agrees.)

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