11/7/2023 0 Comments Beeralchemy 1.8![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say, I really want to brew a beer approaching this greatness. I even love the name, which refers to the portion (share) of a wine or spirit’s volume that is lost to evaporation during aging in the barrels. Here in California, we are sometimes lucky enough to find Angel’s Share on draft, and it might even be better than the bottled version. The intense, rich maltiness, full body, and surprisingly dry finish - enhanced by the bourbon, oak, and vanilla character developed by aging it in Heaven Hill Wheat Whiskey barrels - make it a beer to savored and appreciated, especially at the end of the day in the company of good friends. I first tasted it at the 2010 Barleywine Festival at Toronado, and it was love from the first sip. I haven’t yet compiled a list of my top 10 beers, but if I did, Lost Abbey Angel’s Share would definitely be on it. So I promise to write at least 2 blog posts before the end of March and resolve the abovementioned issues soon to help me blog more. In the end, really, it’s all about overcoming inertia and actually writing posts rather than just thinking about them. Hopefully, I can find a designer who can help me with that. I also want a better design for my blog, because I don’t feel that the current one allows me to present richer content well, like embedding photos, videos, code samples, and so on. I would be really interested to know if people mind reading mixed content like that or if they prefer more compartmentalized approach. So far I have been mixing them all in one blog, because I am not sure if it’s worth breaking out each one into a separate blog on the main site or even into a different site. Most of the things that I like to blog about fit into 3 broad areas: tech stuff - coding, architecture, interesting problems and solutions to them, etc opinion pieces on various topics and food & drink. I want to get back to blogging, but a couple of things are slowing me down. Posts can be saved to Instapaper or a similar service.They are indexed by a real search engines (Google), rather than the half-baked solution Twitter uses that cannot search more than 2 weeks in the past.Blog posts require time to research, ruminate on, and rewrite before publishing, which leads to higher quality content.Blog posts usually present a more complete and rounded point of view rather than a quip.Still, I think regular blogs are still relevant and valuable, because they do what the microblogging services cannot. I feel that the problem of doing the same for blog conversations has not yet been solved, despite services like Disqus. It helped building up an audience on Twitter was much faster due to the one-click nature of creating relationships and keeping track of content. I used to blog much more actively, but with Twitter gaining momentum in early 2008 I found it easier to fire off a quick thought, observation, funny link, or another short piece there rather than put it on my blog. My friend Chris Shiflett probably feels the same way, because he is trying to start a blog revival with his Ideas of March post. I miss blogging and the conversations that used to go with it. ![]()
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