Interesting. It’s a word Minnesotans often use to be nice. A former coworker and I had a joke about “interesting” and “different.” They’re words a segment of the population uses to avoid saying, “It was crap” or “I didn’t like it” or “Why would you ever put mayonnaise, snickers AND celery in [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Le Merle: One Interesting Bird
February 28, 2008BeerGeek goes to the Food and Wine Experience
February 26, 2008Ms. BeerGeek and I headed to the Twin Cities Food and Wine Experience Saturday. I’ll fess-up: even the BeerGeek drinks wine occasionally. It was our first time and an eye-opening experience.We’d expected a little more discernment and a little less…well…ignorant drunkenness. Let me try to illustrate with an example: we’re at the booth of the [...]
What a difference 10 degrees makes!
February 23, 2008As Minnesotans, we know something about temperature, right? If you’re like me, you wore a down parka to work yesterday and a sweatshirt to the gym this afternoon. Those temperature swings make a big difference!
I know that serving temperature makes a difference for beer, too. The point was driven home for me recently: I’ve got [...]
