Adventures in Real Ale :-)

I hope that this gets through any email language filters out there.... The inaugural issue (under the new publisher, that is, with subscription information at www.americanbrewer.com) of American Brewer includes an insert that reads, "You'll notice that we dropped distilling," even though it has an article about distilling at Dogfish Head :-) It also has an article, "Kama Sutra of the Kettle: Erotic Adventures in Brewing Equipment" that discusses logistics of kettle hot-tubs, fun in the grain room ("in the sack"?), the properties of warm spent mash (according to Fal Allen, not as enticing as it might appear [because] its abrasive quality prevents it from being a good lubricant), et cetera. There's even a quote from Madison's Rob LoBreglio about customers in the grain room. But the star quote is from our friend Chuck Skypeck of Boscos's: "We have pseudo-sex at our bar every night," said a decidedly less corporate Chuck Skypeck. [referring to the pubs' cellarmaster promotion]: "We tell them, 'Grab the cock, insert it into the keystone, pound hard until you penetrate the membrane and the cock starts squirting, and keep pounding until it stops.'" Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino "He wrote Romeo and Juliet But his greatest story yet Is coming back as someone's pet Gettin' neutered by the vet Got his paws caught in a net Then he said, "To be or not to me-owwww!" "William Shakespeare's in my Cat"