Top Ten List & Beer...

I found out recently that Carole Epp of Musing About Mud fame assembled a list of Top 10 Ceramics Blogs for blogs.com and unbelievably to me, I made the list. Thank you Carole, I’m flattered that you chose me for the list. If you have arrived here from blogs.com, welcome and click around if you like. There are a bunch of pictures of ceramics at the links on the top of the right column. Here’s some cups I’ve been working on…

So last night my friend Andy and I went to Shelbyville, KY about a 40 minute drive from here to check out Sergio’s World Beers tavern. The reason for the trek was that Sergio’s boasts over 800 different beers on the beer menu with about a dozen on tap. I’ve been to a place in southern Indiana with a couple hundred but this was completely unreal. Of course, if you can only drink about 3 beers anyway, you might wonder what good is a selection of over 800… well, I never claimed that it makes sense. So there were just tons of beers I had never heard of, breweries that I’d never heard of and beers from countries that… well, I had heard of them but never had seen beer from there (Bosnia-Herzegovina and Namibia?). So my second choice was a stout that was on tap (sorry, can’t remember the name) and as Sergio set it down on the table he said “now that’s 23%” and I said “alcohol?” (like a dumbass) and he said, “yep”. I thought 12 or 13% was high. We had heard that Sergio was moving and we spent some time trying to talk him into moving to Louisville. Not only was he open to it, he was actively looking to move here but apparently the rent situation here in Louisville is quite a jump from Shelbyville. So we’re crossing our fingers as it would be dreamy to take a little stroll in my neighborhood to the tavern with 800+ beers. Well, it was a very informal atmosphere with hundreds of bottles and tap handles lining all the walls and windows and we had a great time.

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