Losing My Innocence

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Keeping in the spirit of our first times that Seth wrote about the other day, I thought I’d share my first time with craft brews as well. I touched on my more recent experience with all the complex flavors and aromas in a post titled Beer Noob back when we first started brewing. We were doing “research and development” one night and was blown away by all the varieties of craft beer I had never tried. My first time actually goes back a few years prior.

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I was working for a Miller-Coors distributor, which was a dream come true for me as my favorite beer at the time was Coors Light (I know, I know), but we also distributed quite a few imports and craft beers I had never heard of. Continue reading

Daring to dream…

“All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.”

– D.H. Lawrence

Dreams…ambitions…passions…inspirations…motivations. Whatever you might term them, it has become increasingly and abundantly clear to me that they are an immensely powerful force to be reckoned with. They are all encompassing and once they firmly take hold, can add new meaning to one’s life.

camryn-fingerLittle has made this point more poignant to me than the birth of my daughter Camryn, who came into this world ten and a half months ago. In the months leading up to that wonderful day, I had been preparing myself for the responsibility of being a father. Nothing though, had prepared me for the overwhelming joy that would surge through my body the moment that she wrapped her little hand around my finger for the first time. It was a good thing that I was already sitting down, otherwise it probably would have brought me to my knees. Continue reading

You never forget your first…

microphoneI can remember it like it was yesterday. I was a young lad living in (or rather close to) Peoria, IL. I had recently graduated college, and I was enjoying a booming career in radio broadcasting.

Though to be honest…I use the term booming very liberally (and with a great deal of sarcasm)…as 70 hour work weeks for $16,000 a year is not exactly what most would consider successful.

At any rate, I was full of piss and vinegar and ready to take on the world. More than anything though...I was thirsty.
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It’s Friday Babies!

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Woohoo! Today is Friday! After a long week of working for the man it’s finally time to round up the Regular Guys and have a meeting of the minds! I’m very excited about this meeting. Why you ask? Because amongst the other important items on our agenda, we’re going to shoot some beer porn! Sexy Regular Guy beer in pint glasses! In bottles! In bottles wearing tiny bottle bikinis! Naked bottles? Sure why not!

Get yourself all hot and bothered thinking about it and we’ll post the pictures ASAP!

Until then…RGB RULES!!!