The Joys of Homebrews

Let no one say that our US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are out of touch. One of the trends sweeping across the USA today is home/craft brewing; the White House has caught on and recently served it's first official White House beer at a Super Bowl party. 

While I'm not thrilled that it was a honey ale (they can be a bit dry and "meady" tasting), I'm glad to see that the White House kitchen was up to the challenge. And I, personally, would love to have an in-house graphics team available to print my labels for my own home brews!  The honey, by the way, came from the new bee hive in the White House garden. I hope you'll take a few minutes to read the attached post--I thought it was great.


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SILENCE...I Kill You!

As the old saying goes, "Silence is Golden". It's time once again, for Sir Hook and His Traveling Medicine Show, to attack the bluffs of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis and overlooking his native lands of Southern Illinois, and attempt as best he can to appreciate SILENCE!

It's time for my annual Jesuit Silent Retreat at the Whitehouse, not to be confused with the not so silent retreat of the actual White House!

So as I gaze in the moonlight with only the sounds of a moaning train, the low frequency buzz of barges on the river and the occasional falcon and eagle screech mingled with owl hoots...I'll be thinking (plenty of that), drinking (my 3 bottles of red wine) and being merry as a monk! (No comment as to the village virgins, etc, LOL!) So, I leave it up to my mates to communicate with the world these next four days.

The Cave Shelters Seekers

Softening Hearts

Once As Hard As It's Stone

Silence....I Kill You!

Sir Hook the Silent of Warrick