Free Microbrewed Adventures by Charles Papazian

established my priorities. While most of the beer-drinking world might have preferred a light beer at this moment, I chose to drink deliberately.
    Drink deliberately!
    Only the day before had I come across a trendy advertisement for footwear. It encouraged, “Live Deliberately.” Never mind the product they were selling; I thought, “Yeah, live deliberately. I like that.”

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    TELLURIDE INDIA PALE ALE
    Loaded with hops, but not overdone, this ale is characterized by malt balanced with the unique twist of a healthy handful of Belgian Special-B and toasted biscuit malt. Crisp and refreshing, it’s highly drinkable at any altitude. The recipe can be found in About the Recipes.
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    Perhaps it was the bubbles rising in my second India pale ale (alongside another glass of water) as I gazed hypnotically into my glass. “Drink Deliberately” floated to the surface of my mind like the creamy head on my nourishing ale.
    We all have our priorities. I had chosen to come down off the mountain, not having reached the top, to try again another time. I don’t regret most of the choices I’ve made in my life. My priorities continue to evolve. I often think about how lucky we are in America to have so many choices, though most of us don’t exercise our opportunity to choose. Beer? Beer is one of those wonderful things in life. Does it dismay me that I’ve observed so many mindless choices across so many bars and dining tables? No, although I wonder why people bother to make a mindless choice of what beer to drink when there are so many wonderful options.
    I suppose at any given moment it’s all about priorities. There are so many wonderful beers…if people would only take a moment to think about their priorities.
    For now, I choose to live deliberately, and when it comes to beer I’ll take that moment to drink deliberately.
    That day in Telluride in the mid-1990s, I was lucky. I could drink Archie’s India Pale Ale after a long day’s journey. But if I hadn’t been so fortunate and had found myself trapped on top of the mountain with my own ingredients and equipment, I’d have brewed a simple but most excellent batch of my own…

CHAPTER 4
The Bad Boys of Beer
    W HILE THE MICROBREWS of today owe much to the pioneering work of the brewmasters of the early 1980s, they have contributed their own personality and twists to America’s growing lexicon of beer. There are now more than 1,300 microbrewies across the country, offering thousands of choices from Dogfish Head’s Raison d’ Etre to Rogue Ales’ Morimoto Imperial Pilsner and Stone Brewing’s Arrogant Bastard ale.
    No longer simply content to brew world-class German-style kölsch, bock, Altbier, pilsener, Dunkel, and having perfected English-and Belgian-style stout, porter, India pale ale, gueuze-lambic, barley wine, mild, Tripel, Dubbels and Kriekbiers, today’s brewers continue the adventure beyond all boundaries. They are always on the frontier, with beers aged in sherry, bourbon, port and wine barrels, infusing hops at the point of serving, using indigenous and exotic sugar, spicing their beers with the perfect balance of cocoa, coffee, coconut, exotic fruits and herbs. Today’s brewers maintain their reverence of classic styles while creating new balanced beer flavors that offer even the avowed non–beer drinker new opportunities to indulge in a vibrant and convivial beer culture.
    Rogue Ales
Charlie 1981
    J OHN MAIER , brewmaster at Rogue Ales, Newport, Oregon, has brewed more than 30 million pints for Rogue. So states John’s short bio, but I beg to differ. John has brewed more than 30 million pints of Rogue Ales for beer drinkers !
    Article 2 of Rogue Ales’s “Beer Manifesto” reads, “We hold that beer is worthy of passion.” Agreed.
    Rogue Ales is a unique and “beer-alive” brewing company, owing much of its growth in popularity to John