Bus ride shift beer: new imperial stout I brewed for Berging Brouwerij (the brewery I brew my beers at but also brew part time and now also do recipe development and quality management). My own beers are ridiculously big so it's nice to be able to brew a super drinkable, delicious old school stout.

New beer: Where Wolves Hide In The Company Of Men, Imperial Stout with vanilla beans, 15,2%

New beer: When We Became The Violence - Imperial Stout with fresh pandan, vanilla beans, cinnamon, and lemon peel, 15.2%

Where would you go for good beer in this part of Germany? The closer to the red outline (Halberstadt) the better. I'll be going to hear a note change in the 640 year performance of John Cage ASLSP on Wednesday and staying in the vicinity Tuesday night

Finish a 12 hour day and get back to the train station to find my bike stolen

Brewery smells great, brewing a winter warmer with a little bit of mahleb

Huh, I would have said that Adam is the one everyone talked about (and also the biggest influence on me). All legendary though. I opened my oldest tonight.

Adambier batch 2, 1994. I've sometimes wondered if there would ever be an appropriate day to open it and sadly it's today. The first beer The Hollows released was an Adambier because what Alan Sprints did influenced everything I brew. RIP

Autumn Leaves was 1946 (Johnny Mercer's English version in 1950)

Double Oklahoma-style black bean burger inspired by J. Kenji López-Alt's black bean burger (canned black beans roasted to dry them plus chopped up feta and cashews)

People were making fun of this take but it's not wrong

Speaking of Cap'n Kirk wailing

The Roots (I actually wanted to see Joshua Redman but the room was full, though I'll never complain about seeing The Roots and hearing Cap'n Kirk wailing), Snarky Puppy w/Metropole Orkest, De La Soul, and Questlove DJing

Some North Sea Jazz Fest highlights: Patricia Brennan, Tomeka Reid with Mary Halvorson, Wadada Leo Smith with Mary Halvorson, Steve Coleman

Insane work. Can't wait for Bimhuis in November

Pils forever and always. Slight exception for Augustiner, though I'll choose that Pils any time it's available

Shift ride train beer, some Swedish WCIPA. Yes, my shift was being plied with beer at a soft opening for a bar in Rotterdam

Bus ride shift beer. I'm a simple man and live by a simple code: I see Zoigl, I drink Zoigl

Train ride shift beer. Very long day, very well deserved

Leslie likes beans but almost never requests them, so of course I'm not going to let her down when she does

Train ride shift beer. Not quite as good as drinking mugs of it in Freising but it'll do

Good stuff!

Mastodon! At Into the Grave in Leeuwarden, also hanging at De Markies

Some really nice stuff from a little blender in Eizeringen, De Boeck, at In de Verzekering tegen de Grote Dorst

Incredible start to a weekend in Brussels

3 long days of double mashed, 45° stout finally done

Great to finally see/hear on the big screen

Didn't think I'd ever drink any of the 3F Armand Seasons again, and definitely not all of them together (Lente, Zommer, Herfst, Winter). And sure, how about some 50th Anniversary (1998)?