Previously: 40 Years in Beer (Book II), Part 72: Mitch Steele attends a F.O.S.S.I.L.S. meeting (1998).
I cannot recall the specific impetus for creating the most renowned iteration of the Rich O’s Public House Beer List, as displayed in a spiral bound binder, and which had grown to 42 pages by April of 1999.
Megalomania, perhaps.
After 1999, the burden of updating the beer list led me to explore different options, which is to say the printed version looked like pages 41 and 42 below, and a chalkboard covered drafts. Simpler and more efficient, but providing only a fraction of the joy afforded by the Tome.
A beer list of some sort had existed from the start of Rich O’s BBQ, invariably confusing those visitors who expected to be told that we had both families of beer — Bud and Miller. The beer list grew larger and more informative along with availability of selections. Evidently by late 1997 or early 1998 I was feeling ambitious, and more importantly, finally had time enough to get expansive.
The result can be viewed below, front to back.
The only aspect of this beer binder I ......
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