About

What do you do when you’re a California-wine-country-raised teacher, bartender, home-brewer, and you have a mostly completed degree in English Literature and Language, with an emphasis in Anglo-Saxon literature? You write a beer blog. At times, it feels like it’s all your qualified to do. But, that’s okay.

I love talking about beer. What I’ve realized is that as a teacher, I’m always teaching. It doesn’t matter what the subject matter is. I teach all day, and I turn around and teach again. In many ways, I feel like I was raised to talk about beer. Growing up in the wine country, wine speak becomes second nature. From a young age, I heard my family and their friends talking about wine, especially as I was drug around from winery to winery, without being able to taste. It didn’t take me long to figure out that talking about beer was the same as talking about wine.

My interest in Anglo-Saxon literature plays into my love of beer too. The idea of the mead-hall, like Heorot in Beowulf, is an invasive part of beer culture. When I’m drinking beer, I experience a sense of camaraderie. There’s a brotherhood amongst craft beer drinkers. It’s lacking something, part of the ritual, when you drink craft beer alone.

I’m La Trappe Monk. I love beer. I love to teach. I love to write. I love life.