After I finished the newsletter, but before you start, I formatted a lot of stuff that I copied in this one, so some of it may look weird when I hit publish. I apologize, I was not really on top of my game for this one. Also... there are no pictures. So I'm ok if you only read like three paragraphs and give up. I understand that. I would ask that you read the last paragraph, that's kind of interesting. And here we go...
Sorry so late. I really got caught up in season 5 of True Blood on Memorial Day. It kind of soaked up a lot of spare time that I would have otherwise used to write/edit a very popular, semi-quarterly newsletter. Instead, I can tell you in very much detail the setup of the Vampire government and Religion's impact on it's leadership. You probably don't want to hear about that. You probably don't want to hear a long winded introduction about my 8th grade BASIC class either. But there's nothing I can do about that now. It's already in print. I added a little bonus to all of the sections, and added some reviews comments from Untappd. Untappd is a nerd application that tracks all of the beer you consume. It's kind of like a Facebook for beer, without all the friends, and much less of the anxiety that comes with whether or not you should write on someone's timeline to wish them a Happy Birthday if you don't typically talk to them very often. Sometimes, Untappd can make it easier to pick out a six pack, sometimes far more difficult. And occasionally, the comments can be funny if used in the right context. I'll let you decide. And now, on with the show...
When I was in junior high school, we had a computer lab. I was interested in the future and took a class. As it turns out the sole purpose of the class was to teach us BASIC. It's the Latin of computer languages; dead. The teacher seemed very high strung, but I guess at the time there was probably a few hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment in there. I mean, between the dot matrix printers, and the 400 lb monitors, the meandering cords and power cables, it no longer surprises me when I look back and remember shocking myself on a metal folding chair, so as to not ruin the computers which in turn took 15 minutes to power up. Can you still do that? Can you still ruin a computer by shocking it? Anyway... We did stuff like write code to make the computer type our name 100 times and other yes/no games, that type of bullshit. It was dumb. There was this one kid in the class that really got into writing code. He made a pac-man-esque game, and added little design features that always ruined the curve in the class. Kids would crowd around his desk to look at his newest program. It was the early 90's, so no matter how good he was going to get at Basic, the graphics were going to be kind of crummy. The purpose of this meandering intro to let you know that I think that kid created the original design of the Two Brothers Website. 20 years ago. And they are still using it to this day. I don't really have anything against Two Brothers, their website is just stupid looking. Cane and Ebel is a Red Rye Ale, selected by @jdodaro. The Two Brothers Website insightfully says...
Dry, but with a creamy touch of thai palm sugar and the spicy tang of rye, all balanced by loads of the wackiest new hops we could lay our lands on. Yep, it's an original. And that's no sin.
