Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part 80: Running Gravity Head’s daunting gauntlet (Act I: 1999 – 2009).
“I tell ya, my whole life is pressure, nothing but pressure. This pressure’s like a heaviness, always on top of me this heaviness, since I’m a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, ‘Ah, a new day, up and at ’em!’ I wake up, the heaviness is right there waiting for me. Sometimes I even talk to it and I say, ‘Hi, heaviness.’ And the heaviness looks back at me. ‘Today you’re gonna get it good. You’ll be drinking early today.’” — Rodney Dangerfield (1921 – 2004)
You’re reading a long-winded tale about 40 years (actually almost 44) spent in the business of better beer.
This narrative has been parked in 1999 for months with the engine idling, and as I write, the old-fashioned wall calendar is showing the year 2025. It has been a time destined to be remembered as “The Heaviness,” which I’ll explain in due course.
First, a vignette from a simpler time that predated my career in bee ......
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