The way Beer makes you feel

"Beer makes you feel the way you should feel without beer" Henry Lawson.

I don't consider myself as being a big drinker.

I am known amongst family and friends as one who likes a beer or three, but if you tally my weekly units of alcohol, which I do from time to time, its usually within the 'normal range'. Except sometimes when I'm with certain friends, who seem to encourage my 'over consumption' gene.

My weeks are pretty dry and I hold out mostly for the weekends. I've sometimes likened myself to a 'social binge drinker' when I'm with those 'certain friends'.

I have done the dry July thing a few times, mostly just for the challenge, so I know I'm not an alcoholic, just like I've done Mo-vember and I know I'm not a 70's porn star.

I do so much enjoy a good beer, and feel that the pleasure I receive from beer drinking is a good thing and if its not causing me any problems there's no need to refrain..

My favorite pastimes are exercise, brewing, and drinking beers, Sort of a yin and yang and then another yang thing .

Being one who likes to brew, and I do like to brew, I make more beer than I can drink, so I do like to share, and all my fellow drinking friends comment positively on my creations. "You should open a brew pub" they say, or did I just dream that they say that... ?

My latest gig of selling home brew ingredients is a nice sideline to my own weekend activity, it will never make me rich but it does give me many 'ingredients in stock' options when its time to heat up the boil kettle.

Beer makes people happy, I supply the stuff that makes the stuff, that makes people happy.

I was at a concert recently at a winery,

a bring your own chair thing.

The security were checking 10 thousand bags and even inside our camp chairs at the entry, not for weapons or bombs, but to ensure we had no alcohol. We were then a captive audience for the next 8 hours and were offered a choice of $55 bottles of crappy wine or $12 cans of a 4% Japanese owned industrial beer muck. ( I said I like beer, but not just 'any' beer.) It was a great concert, but since when, did the working mans drink become the most expensive way for a tipple at a gig ?. It's almost enough to make one put his hand up to be the designated driver.

Brew Love.