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30 Notable Beers of 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:56:00 +0000

Allagash Fluxus 2008
This year's Fluxus was a ginger-spiced witbier. It was rather tasty.

Brasserie Dieu Du Ciel Rosée d'Hibiscus
Another wit - but this one is flavored hibiscus. This is possibly the only 'girly' beer I've ever enjoyed.

Brooklyn Brewery Flemish Gold
A saison from Garrett Oliver's arsenal - lots of flavor.

Brouwerij de Molen 1914 London Porter
All beer-geek archivists read Shut Up About Barclay Perkins, yes? If you do not already, you should begin, since the blog and, hence, the beer are the fruits of researcher/author/blogger Ronald Pattinson's hard work in various European beer archives. And it's great.

Brouwerij de Molen SSS 1914 Triple Stout
Like the beer above, this is a fantastic recreation of a historic recipe - one I'd be happy to drink every day.

Dogfish Head Sah'tea
Also something of a historic recreation (this time of a Finnish sahti), but as this is Dogfish Head, it had a modern twist - actual tea in the brew, and a weizen yeast. More refreshing than it is possible to convey.

Dogfish Head Theobroma
It sometimes seemed that every new beer I tried this year featured chocolate in some way, but nothing could compare to the latest archaeological beer from Dogfish Head. Unique, and a very different brew in tap and in the bottle.

Earth Bread + Brewery The Bradley Effect
A winner from the much-anticipated brewpub (see below, and try the flatbreads - they are amazing) with a very unusual style - it was a black gruit (and was on tap just in time for the election).

Earth Bread + Brewery Here's Brucker
I seemed to have enjoyed many alts this year - this was one of the best, despite the terrible pun.

Earth Bread + Brewery Love Your Mother
After much wrangling over a liquor license, Earth Bread + Brewery finally opened; this mild was in their starting lineup. Really a nice beer, especially for someone who is stuck driving later.

HaandBryggeriet Norwegian Wood
It was too smoky for me, but I could appreciate the work that had gone into it - the juniper was a nice touch, and I look forward to their other offerings.

Harviestoun Ola Dubh 16
I am generally not a fan of anything wood-aged, but perhaps there's something about whisky casks that makes it OK. Harviestoun took their reliable Old Engine Oil and deposited it in some Highland Park casks for a while (I also tried the 12 and 30 varieties), with a very tasty (and, for completists, individually-numbered) result. This one was just right.

Moa Noir
I am often suspicious of a beer that has made a long journey in a bottle, but this dark lager from New Zealand was great - more, please!

Nils Oscar Kalasöl
A märzen from Sweden, and a good one, too - not to mention an excuse to use two umlauts in rapid succession.

Otter Creek Sea Otter
My favorite from the Otter Creek World Tour series - a Baltic porter with a ton of flavor.

Port Brewing/De Proefbrouwerij Signature Ale
Possibly the oddest beer I've had this year, and one I thought I would dislike since I am not the world's biggest fan of Brettanomyces. This works perfectly for me, though.

Ridgeway Bad King John
A dark, bitter stout, but in a very good way.

Rogue Double Dead Guy
As per usual, Rogue can get away with front-loading the hops - there's still plenty of malt to make this a perfect Halloween brew.

Rogue John Locker Stock #10, Oktoberfest
This was something of a departure for Rogue - the malt finally got a chance to shine.

Russian River Blind Pig IPA
West coast brewers truly understand how to do the über-hoppy thing while maintaining great flavor.

Southern Tier Choklat
Rather like its sibling below - I wish these came in airline-sized bottles.

Southern Tier Crème Brulee
Definitely a 'dessert only' beer - very, very sweet and lives up to its namesake.

Southern Tier Oat
It's an imperial oatmeal stout. It's very tasty. It needs to come in a smaller bottle.

Stone XII Anniversary
Another chocolate beer, this one a bitter chocolate oatmeal stout. Really nice, but it was hard to match the memory of the XI Anniversary, which remains my current favorite beer. Can it please become a year-round offering? Pretty please?
Update: Thank you, Stone Gods!

Struise Black Albert
I know every other beer geek loves it. I see how it's well-crafted, really I do - but it's too wine-y for me; the grape flavor and I are not friends. Nice maltiness, though.

Struise Mikeller
Belgium and Denmark came together to make a strong golden ale (or something along those lines). It was tremendous.

Struise Tsjeeses
It was blond tastiness.

Troegs Scratch #6
The Troegs Scratch series has been great fun; I am not normally a huge fan of the Dortmunder Export style, but this won me over.

Troegs Scratch #7
Who doesn't like a weizenbock?

Victory Yakima Twilight
It's something like a dark double IPA (not quite a Stone XI Anniversary, but perhaps a distant relation) and quite hoppy for Victory, whose stable of lagers made me realize lagers could be Good Things. I hope to have more.

So, there you have it - a partial sampling of Things I've Really Liked this year; if I had to pick a favorite, it's going to be a narrow victory for the 1914 London Porter, just edging out the SSS 1914 Triple Stout. I wish you good luck in obtaining a bottle in time for New Year's Eve.

Wait For It...

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:29:00 +0000

You really, really need to watch this:

Award-Winning

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:58:00 +0000

Yes, it's true; I'm officially an award-winning brewer. Here are some ways to celebrate this accomplishment:

Beer
Dieu du Ciel! Rosée d'Hibiscus
Gasthaus Gosebrauerei Bayerischer Bahnhof Gose
Reissdorf Kölsch
Victory St. Boisterous
Victory Braumeister Pils

Books
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
A Good Horse Has No Color: Searching Iceland for the Perfect Horse by Nancy Marie Brown
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann

Snow Day Lists

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:52:00 +0000

The icy weather affords an opportunity to broadcast a few recent favorites, many of which admittedly have not changed much since November:

Music
Sweden - The Mountain Goats
Laid - James
The Life Pursuit - Belle & Sebastian
Company - 2006 Broadway Revival Cast Recording
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad

February Derby Picks
Anak Nakal
Court Vision
Face the Cat
Tale of Ekati
War Pass

Beer
Iron Hill Pilsner Barleywine (West Chester)
Stone XI Anniversary
Troubadour Obscura
Troegs Scratch #7
Victory Baltic Thunder

Year-End Music Roundup

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:42:00 +0000

This year, I have been mostly listening to:

Crowded House - Farewell to the World, Time on Earth
Eliza Carthy - Rough Music
The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse, Absent Friends
Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning, Live@Spaceland
Hoots and Hellmouth - Hoots and Hellmouth
The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak, Warmer Corners, Naturaliste
Math and Physics Club - Math and Physics Club
Kate Rusby - Awkward Annie
The Tallboys - Rubber Dolly
The Wedding Present - Take Fountain, Search for Paradise

Concerts attended in 2007:

Waterson: Carthy (minus Norma Waterson), Mandell Theater, Philadelphia
Crowded House (with Liam Finn opening), The Mann Center, Philadelphia (and also earlier in the day at World Cafe Live)
The Lucksmiths (with Ladybug Transistor and Still Flyin' opening), DC9, Washington, DC
I suppose technically The Wiggles (The Spectrum, Philadelphia) counts as a concert too...

Year-End Beer Roundup, Take One

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:13:00 +0000

In no particular order, here's my first crack at my top ten beers for 2007 -- and yes, there are more than ten at this point:

Troubadour Obscura - Belgium
Bell's Batch 8000 - USA
Berliner Kindl Weisse - Germany
Dogfish Head Fed-Extra Mild - USA
Dogfish Head Baltic Porter - USA
Russian River Pliny the Elder - USA
J.W. Lees Vintage Harvest Ale 1998 - UK
Stone XI Anniversary (on tap) - USA
Elysian Fields ESB (hand pump) - USA
Thomas Hooker Liberator - USA
Avery/Russian River Collaboration, Not Litigation - USA

Lisa Grimm's Incredibly Interesting CV

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:44:00 +0000

Experience

2007-current
Assistant Archivist
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Accessioning and cataloging of archival materials
Overseeing digitization projects and managing digital assets
Providing historical research and reference services for local and offsite researchers
Streamlining and formalizing workflows

2006-2007
Senior Web Specialist
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Managing all aspects of the Penn Vet web site
Overseeing major technology projects and software integrations
Developing a content & digital asset management solution for learning objects
Creating policies and standards for information architecture and metadata

2005-2006
Project Librarian/Archivist
Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Processing the Brooklyn Museum Art School collection and preparing finding aid
Updating Access database and creating original MARC records
Processing and cataloging the Allen Wardwell library collection
Answering reference questions

2003-2005
Web Production Editor
Nature Publishing Group
New York, NY, USA
Working with external vendors and internal teams on Academic Journals
Managing weekly and monthly web production schedules for six journals
Launching new journals and managing journal redesigns and builds
XML, SGML, HTML and CSS coding
URLs: http://www.nature.com/modpathol/, http://www.nature.com/labinvest/,
http://www.nature.com/npp/, http://www.nature.com/mp/,
http://www.nature.com/jp/, http://www.nature.com/ijir/,
http://www.labanimal.com, http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/

2002-2003
HAN Content Manager
NYC Department of Health
New York, NY, USA
Working with external vendors and internal teams to develop and launch the Health Alert Network web site
Managing content and developing information architecture standards
Managing users and documents with SharePoint
URL: http://www.nyc.gov/health/han/

2002-2003
Editorial Freelancer
Cambridge University Press
New York, NY, USA
Disk editing and reference consolidation of articles for scholarly journal
Working with copyeditor to enter corrections before articles go to press

2001-2002
e-Team Logistics Manager
Hewlett-Packard Media Solutions
Cupertino, CA, USA
Working with clients to develop schedules and standards for live and pre-recorded online training events in the US, Europe and Asia
Setting production schedules and targets for CD production
Managing and developing client relationships
Collaborating with internationally-distributed team to manage events
URL: http://www.hpmediasolutions.com

2001
Project Manager
Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Identifying and managing all aspects related to the global Juniper.net web site
Developing and enforcing information architecture standards
Collaborating with multiple international departments for initial content development and updates
URL: http://www.juniper.net

1998-2001
Web Production Manager
Women.com
San Mateo, CA, USA
Interviewing, hiring, training and managing a team of six employees
Allocating projects and developing employee goals and standards
Maintaining and negotiating schedules among multiple departments
HTML and Javascript coding; building new web site templates
Developing and enforcing information architecture standards
Evaluating new software solutions and recommending packages for purchase
Managing bicoastal rollout of new navigation, channels and web sites
URLs: http://women.com, http://womenswire.com
http://satellitesisters.com, http://prevention.com,
http://bsmithwithstyle.com, http://familyplay.com

1997
Web Programmer
Smartnet Ltd.
London, UK
HTML & JavaScript, ColdFusion and ASP coding
Coding and managing regular web site updates
Clients included Christies, Debenhams & JazzFM
URLs: http://www.christies.com, http://www.jazzfm.com,
http://www.debenhams.co.uk, http://www.principles.co.uk

1996-1997
Web Assistant
Time Out
London, UK
HTML coding, some layout
Updated sites weekly & fielded user and advertiser queries
URL: http://www.timeout.co.uk

1993
Archaeologist
Ashkelon Excavations
Ashkelon, Israel
Digging, recording, finds management
Research

Education

MS in Library and Information Science, 2006
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
Brookville, NY, USA
Concentration in Rare Books & Special Collections; coursework in Archives, Cataloging & Academic Libraries

MA in Archaeology, 1997
University College London
London, UK
Dissertation on the trade of amber in the late bronze/early iron age in Northern Europe

BA in Archaeology, 1995
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA
Other courses included Latin, Geology, Chemistry, Folklore, English Literature

Other Courses:
Rare Book School: The Printed Book in the West since 1800
Individual classes: Human-computer interaction, software engineering, C, C++, database design

Skills

Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows, UNIX, Linux
Software: HomeSite, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, MS Project, MS Access, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, HP Virtual Classroom, Blackboard, SharePoint, Quark, InDesign, RLIN Terminal, Voyager
Web & Metadata: HTML, XHTML, XML, SGML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion, ASP, DACS, LCSH, AACR2, MARC, Dublin Core, EAD
Languages: Reading knowledge of Latin, French and Spanish; some German
etc.: Delivering presentations, academic teaching and employee training

Affiliations

SAA, MARAC, DVAG, BJCP

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Lisa Grimm's CV

last updated 12/29/08

Linus at the Beach

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:36:00 +0000

Snow

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:47:00 +0000

Linus in the snow
Linus at Lush

Random Holiday Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:53:00 +0000

...for your edification:

A New Hope

noreply@blogger.com (Superfecta) — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:57:00 +0000

Welcome to the new format...after years of never updating my site because I did not have my ftp login handy, I decided to just switch over to a blog like everyone else.

Here's what you can find here:

First: My hugely interesting CV
Music: Some live Divine Comedy MP3s
Literature: A bit of info on Betty Smith
Blogs: Links to my horse racing blog and my cat's surgery blog (indeed!)
Music Two - Current Favorite Music: The Divine Comedy, The Lucksmiths, The Wedding Present, Kate Rusby, Eliza Carthy, Seth Lakeman, The City Waites, Sequentia
Photos: Recent Linus pictures
Music Three - Current Favorite Musical: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Last Film Seen: The Prestige
Favorite TV Shows: Doctor Who, House, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report
Watchable Baby TV: Jack's Big Music Show, The Wonder Pets
Currently Reading: Howards End (yes, again), Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America