Not Another Blog About Beer...

It seems the internet is filled with blogs. I'm not much of a blogger, or a social media socialite, but I wanted to get some of my thoughts about beer out of my head, so I thought I'd put them on here. So I guess you could say that although the last thing the internet needs is another beer blog, this is not really a blog for the reader, it's a blog for me, the writer.

Beer and I go way back. I've been brewing since about the time I finished high school (albeit fairly mediocre brews back then), and have been drinking beer since well before then. My taste in beer went from the cheap and nasty, to the early days of a craft beer boom in Melbourne, to mainstream "craft beer", to exploration of European styles and finally to New Zealand craft beer. I love almost all beer styles, with my favourites being a well hopped pale ale with a good smack of American or New Zealand hops.

Recently I went through a bit of a change of lifestyle, including changing diet, doing a lot of weights, and drinking a whole lot less beer. The change was good, but it was also bad. I got to a point where I was overthinking my diet, and as you can imagine, beer fell out of my life. At the same time I moved to Hawke's Bay in New Zealand, where I've discovered some amazing white wines (something I have never really enjoyed before). 

But that's all changed, and I have rediscovered beer. So this is my little place to rant about beer. I'm going to blog about making beer, drinking beer, enjoying beer, beer culture, and whatever else I feel like ranting about. I'm not sure how it will go, but lets give it a crack and see what happens.