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December 3, 2012. If seeing that picture doesn't make you thirsty, check yourself, partner. And yes, it is "good for you," says WGN News. When GFY Stout is being brewed, the Spiteful brewhouse smells like fudge. Co-Founder & Brewer Brad Shaffer turns from the kettle to welcome my entrance with a grinning Italian gesture, by flicking his hand outward from under his chin. Good to see you, too.
Co-founder Jason Klein sits at a small table beside the south wall, working on his computer, warmed by the kettles boiling a mere five feet away. It's a modest office space: no dividers, lamp, or cushioned chair. He prints an invoice and then joins Brad beside the kettle. As you'll see, Spiteful is a small operation. Their space is compact, but I'll be damned if every last piston isn't firing.
Brad tells me his wish is for Spiteful's growth to be organic, never biting off more than they can chew. After honing the GFY recipe, Brad and Jason are pleased with what has become a flagship beer for Spiteful. I've now given it to several friends, and their reaction has generally been the same: a look of astonishment followed by zero interest in sharing the rest.
I met Brad and Jason at the Pipeworks brewhouse last September, where Brad was apprenticing at the time. Their plan to open a brewery was no secret—now, it's a reality, and it's located in Ravenswood by the Deagan building.
I was drawn to Brad's relaxed, Colorado demeanor: he looks you in the eye when he talks to you, and doesn't tinker with his phone when you talk to him.
Fed up with with his desk job in the suburbs, Jason quit and took up with childhood-friend Brad to fulfill their brewing dreams. Jason runs the books. He's fast-talking and quick to call a spade. German and Jewish. Usually bobs one of his legs when he's sitting down.
Though Brad and Jason tell me they intend to remain a two man operation, help is never too far off. Fitz frequently stops in to lend a hand. At 6'4, Fitz is that friendly bald guy who gave you your first taste of Hill Farmstead. Dubbing him a beer missionary would be an understatement. With Fitz on call, Spiteful also keeps Jason's younger brother Jonathan Klein around. But only as a volunteer. Evidently, beer is thicker than blood.
Fortunately for Jonathan, Oskar Blues Brewery scooped him up late-January, brought on to handle their Chicagoland merchandising and promotions—a far cry from the Indy Car racing of his early twenties. Frankly, Jonathan and Jason are better off in different brewhouses. I get the impression that Spiteful isn't big enough for the both of them.
For now, tucked away in the bowels of an industrial warehouse space, Spiteful plans to remain a production-only brewery. A tap room and bottle shop may come in time, Brad says, but Spiteful's focus is on getting beer into the market, at stores and bars that believe in their beer. A favorite of Brad's, Four Moons Tavern now carries three Spiteful beers.
Last December I was at the Lakeview Binny's when a woman mistook me for an employee. She asked for me for a Christmas beer recommendation. I directed her to a shelf with local beers, pointing to Pipeworks' Santa Vs. Unicorn Barleywine and Spiteful's Jingle Balls Spiced Winter Ale. She burst out laughing and bought six Jingle Balls "for the label alone."
Can you blame her?
Fork lifts buzz through the basement's wide corridors. Upstairs, drills whir and saw blades ring from an auto shop, the mechanics smiling and switching from Spanish to greet me with a "hello." Little can be heard from the space next to Spiteful, home to Letherbee Distillers. But Distiller Brenton Engel frequently stops in for a beer, bringing bottles of his own gin and absinthe.
On the whole, the building's tenants are excited to know beer is being brewed near them. Curious, they stop by unannounced, delighted by the novelty of working in the same building as a brewery. Brad and Jason graciously field their questions, happy to offer them a bottle of GFY or Burning Bridges as they're sent on their way.
I suspect these visits happen more often than they like. When over six people are in it, the brewhouse feels stuffy.
Fitz and Jonathan are on the bottler. Brad is testing GFY's carbonation, pleased with the thicker, more robust third batch. "It's dialed in, man," Brad says. "You've gotta try it."
So I do. It's chewy and creamy, like a fudge sunday with malt powder on top. A hint of vanilla. Lots of roastiness. Since I tried the first batch, I can agree that this really is the one. I'd say it's the best stout I've had all winter.
Jason and his fiancée visited California this past December. Having brought a few Spiteful beers in their carry-ons, they gave their tour guide a bottle of GFY when they visited Stone. One month later, the two had forgotten about their peace offering. Then Jason received an email, from the fellow they'd given the bottle to. The Stone tour guide said that he had shared it with some of the guys at the brewery during a tasting. Turns out, GFY was their favorite, beating out Bourbon County Brand Stout, Cantillon sours, and beers by Lost Abbey, among others. High praise.
Brad and Jason probably wish I hadn't included that. Had to, fellas.
Of course Fitz brings Heady Topper. It's like he has a vending machine stocked only with the most sought-after beers in America. "Sorry about the freshness, guys. It's four days old," he says. Ridiculous. I've heard Fitz use the phrase "beer karma." Whatever that is, he wrote the book on it. I've never met someone more generous with their beer.
But there is work to be done. So we finish bottling GFY, tape the cases shut, move the pallet into the hallway, break down the table, and clean up the puddles of stout.
More of the brewing of GFY. Oats and oats and oats.
As a bike messenger for two years, Brad became hardened to the dangers of careless pedestrians and drivers. Don't believe me? Spiteful's Bitter Biker Double IPA will be hitting taps and shelves in early-February. And let me let tell you, it's a doozie. Mightily bitter, dry, and backed by a subdued malty sweetness, Bitter Biker will be well received by Chicago's hop heads. It already has been.
Alongside outstanding new beers by Pipeworks, 18th Street, Solemn Oath, Lake Effect, Revolution, and Begyle, Spiteful's Bitter Biker was one of the first kegs to kick at a recent Tap This! event hosted by Fischman Liquors & Tavern.
January 24, 2013. I sensed it was no ordinary tapping the moment I walked into Fischman's. The place was packed, the hype was palpable, and the taplist delivered. Brewers, fans, and barflies convened for what became a raucous celebration of Chicago craft beer. [Credit to Brandon Weninger for the following two photos.]
As the crowd thinned out, with most of the kegs kicked, Bartender Jim Wojo pulled out a few of his own bottles to share with nearby patrons, including Founders Bolt Cutter and Arcadia Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout. My palate was in tatters, Jim, but I remember those being delicious.
Aleman was also present, pouring their Iron Brew-winning Dayman Coffee IPA, as well as a tobacco-forward Imperial Stout. I'm certain the place was pushing capacity, and on a Thursday, no less. Yet events like this are happening more often in Chicago, to greater turnouts, with increasingly stacked taplists and strange themes. Spiteful seems poised to brew accordingly.
If you're a biker in the city, I defy you to pass up a beer with a label like Bitter Biker's.
January 26, 2013. Following Pipeworks' lead, Spiteful has agreed contract brew for 18th Street Brewery, allowing for 18th Street Founder & Brewer Drew Fox to double his output of beer for the Chicago market. Drew expects to have 18th Street up and brewing in Gary, IN by August 2013.
That Spiteful stepped up and offered one of their tanks to Drew is a testament to the brotherhood among Chicago brewers, and specifically the brotherhood between Spiteful, 18th Street, and Pipeworks. Brad and Jason tell me that the decision to contract brew for 18th Street was common sense. When Drew calls Brad his best friend, I have no trouble believing him.
Chicago's craft beer boom has been a joy to watch. Over the past two years alone, dozens of breweries have emerged: some have thrived, some have failed—all have struggled. We've seen breweries big and small give badly needed equipment and raw material to other breweries, in the form of walk ins, kegs, tanks, hops, malt—you name it.
Still, this charity among brewers simply does not compute for some. Why give with no expected return? And to your own competition, at that? Two months into production brewing, what sense would it make to give someone else a tank in your own tiny brewery? To Brad and Jason, it makes good sense.
Smiles and spent grain from the brewing of 18th Street's Sinister Double IPA. The day begins at 7:00am. Sleet and a brutal wind outside, but it sure is warm in the brewhouse. Drew arrives and starts to mill the grain. Brad comes thirty minutes later, leans his bike against the wall, unbuckles his messenger bag and fires up the kettles. Ice and snow are clinging to his beard.
I take a better look at Brad's bike, which is covered in stickers. Pipeworks beer labels, brewery logos—emblems from around the country. A beer billboard on wheels.
Jason arrives later on, still wearing his foot brace, the result of an accident I'm sure he'd be happy to tell you all about. He ties his dog to the table by its leash and opens his laptop. Today he is working on the copy for the Bitter Biker label. Around then, Claudia takes lunch orders for Dinkel's: two Woolworth's, two Rothschild's, and two Harry Starr's. She says she doesn't feel like picking it up by herself, so I tag along. Then I realize why she wanted company: it's Saturday, and we're driving down Lincoln Ave. The traffic and number of strollers are staggering.
We come back an hour later carrying two bags filled with pastries, doughnuts, soup, and sandwiches. 18th Street's inaugural brewday at Spiteful is grounds for a feast.
I hope Jason never takes off that boot.
Drew begins the final hop additions while Brad takes us to the roof. The sun sinks a little lower and Jason lights a cigarette. "Don't tell my mom," he says. Looking out on the skyline, I'm reminded of how expansive the city is. It's no stretch to say that the landscape of Chicago's breweries may soon resemble the early 1900's, when breweries—estimated at around sixty—provided their neighborhood taverns with fresh, locally-brewed beer, delivered by horse-drawn wagon.
The well-to-do neighborhood of Ravenswood has had a particular attraction to breweries this past year, having taken in both Spiteful and Begyle. Oh, and then there's Half Acre, whose long-awaited tap room quickly gained acclaim among locals, beer enthusiasts, and brewers. With good reason—the place is a marvel of woodworking. But it's their tap-only releases that bring all the boys to the yard. Brad and Jason being two of them.
After a six-month wait, the kettles and tanks from Portland Kettle Works have arrived. Typically, the wait is said to be around four months. But in this case, the customization took longer. Jason and Brad couldn't be more happy with their decision to buy new equipment, and from a reputable American company.
In the brewhouse, songs by Tom Petty and Bob Marley give way to 90's hip hop. Jason cracks open a Central Waters Bourbon Barrel-Aged Stout while we wait to transfer Sinister. Drew is beaming—the brewday for his second contract-brewed beer has come to an end.
Brewing on a 2.5 bbl system, with 5 bbl fermentors, Spiteful is proud to be small, making no hasty plans to overextend themselves. Jason and Brad are proud of their beer, too, and proud to be brewing in Chicago—their beer is an illustration of that. So watch out for these guys. Especially if you're behind the wheel. They'll be in the bike lane, and they'll probably be bitter.
Rockford, IL. November 2012.
I walked into their meeting at a tense moment, amid an argument about whether the Forest City Brewers could caravan up to New Glarus Brewery with the security of adequate car insurance. The short answer was, "No, we can't." One voice persisted, maintaining that a waiver could be drafted, that in the event of an accident, liability would not be unfairly assigned. "We can't take that risk," said Micheal Sears, Treasurer of the club. "It's just not worth it." The room shuffled. "We've talked about this before," Sears continued. "We can't do it."
Four title-bearing club members sat facing a few dozen others who listened to Sears discuss the previous and coming month. Nothing extraordinary. A reminder about member dues. No New Glarus trip, period. And for the time being, homebrewing legislation appeared stalled, or unsatisfactory. Thirty minutes pass, and then, beer.
Everyone receives a token for when they've determined their personal favorite. White numbered lunch bags are placed behind the pitchers. Aside from the brewers themselves, no one knows who has brewed which beer.
My first pour was an oak-aged Imperial IPA: heavily malted, booze on the nose and finish, and with more wood character than I cared for. On to something else, then. I circled the table and took a pour of the Imperial Stout: nicely roasty, undercarbonated, and slightly thin, but pleasant all the same. The token remained in my pocket.
After trying each of the offerings—from Hefeweizen to Cream Ale—club member Tim Lundquist and I dropped our tokens in bag number 8 before pouring ourselves another for good measure. Our winner was clear: Captain Commando Kölsch, brewed by Alex Cando. True to style, Cando's Kölsch was crisp, dry, with a mild vinous aroma and grain flavor. I was surprised to be drinking so much Kölsch on a cold night in November—when Cando was announced the winner, his grin of satisfaction convinced me I wasn't nuts. He had absolutely nailed it. The recipe can be found here.
Captain Commando went on to claim first place in the homebrew category at 2012's Beer Hoptactular, while Forest City Brewers earned the title of Homebrew Club of the Year; B.O.S.S. (Brewers of South Suburbia) took second and C.H.A.O.S (Chicago Homebrew Alchemists of Sud) took third.
For a city with only two breweries in the immediate area—Carlyle Brewing Co and Pig Mind's Brewing Co—Rockford's homebrew community has impressed me by its scope of brewing creativity. Forest City Brewers are brewing fine beers and meads, but quietly. I first discovered them at 2011's Screw City Beer Fest in Rockford—the mead and Black IPA were among the crowd's favorites of the day. Since late 2011, however, the public hasn't had much opportunity to try offerings by the Forest City Brewers. Club Treasurer Michael Sears explained why:
"In the past the Illinois Liquor Commission pretty much left homebrewers alone," Sears said. "But with the explosive interest in craft beer and homebrewing, the ILCC has moved to interperate the current regulations on the books differently."
Meaning the once gray area of serving homebrew at festivals is now starkly black and white—no homebrew is to be served at festivals. If you're an Illinois resident who buys alcohol—especially those in Cook County—take note of the taxes on your next purchase. Does this sort of regulation come as a surprise? "Legislation was introduced late in 2012 to change these restrictions," Sears said, "but they never made it out of committee."
My guess is that we'll see headway as soon as Springfield creates a tax on homebrewing that is more than nominal. But Sears is optimistic: "Illinois may follow Wisconsin's lead and loosen the restrictions against homebrewing." For the sake of any craft beer drinker in Illinois, I anticipate the same outcome.
In 2013, a third brewery will be added to the stateline's landscape, in downtown Rockford: Rockford Brewing Company, slated to operate from the facility once used by Peacock Brewery (1849-1922). Theirs will be a scenic view, overlooking the Rock River and State Street bridge, sharing a space with the Prairie Street Brewhouse (note: brewhouse in name only, a nod to Peacock Brewery). It is rumored that a brewer from Great Dane Pub & Brewery will be named to the brewing staff.
A third brewery will provide badly needed competition to long-time hometown favorite, Carlyle—located a mere two blocks from the Prairie Street Brewhouse—as well as to newcomer Pig Minds, located in Machesney Park. Make no mistake, Rockford's community is curious about craft beer. Only, I dream of a day when Rockford champions bars with no televisions or shot specials. For now, it is home to precious few craft beer bars, including Oasis Micro Pub, Kryptonite Bar (curated by Cicerone Aaron Sleger), and Olympic Tavern (curated by Laurelwood alum Zac Rotello). They are the lighthouses of downtown.
Rockford Brewing Company would do well to put one of Rockford's own at the brewing helm, considering the brewing talent in the area. Given that I was raised in Rockford, I have an obligation to keep tabs on its beer culture, which bars finally got a Sierra Nevada tap handle, and which friends have begun the transition from Bud Light to Fat Tire.
In general, the people now seem more receptive to paying $10 on a six-pack than, say, two years ago. Anthony Artale from Artale Wine will probably tell you the same thing. Is that the result of increased exposure to and appreciation for craft beer? I believe so. A rising tide lifts all boats. The Forest City is brewing. Let it pour.
The Forest City Brewers meet monthly, at Thunder Bay Grille. For those interested in joining, refer to their website: http://www.forestcitybrewers.org
It was a dream that began in Chicago, in honor of 18th Street. Drew and his wife fell in love with Pilsen. Having been raised in Humboldt Park, Drew felt right at home among the incredible diversity there. Plans to open a craft beer bar were formed—after moving to Gary, IN, those plans went by the wayside. New plans were laid, a vision to open a brewery in a community without one. Though it is no longer the Gary of The Music Man, something just as lively is breaking ground there. And it's not a Tribute to Michael Jackson Dance-off.
Introducing: 18th Street Brewery.
Since its opening, Pipeworks has been a growing family to the craft beer community of Chicago, welcoming entrepreneurs, brewers, and bedroom musicians together under the flag of craft beer. For months now, Drew has been a brewer at Pipeworks, in the company of Beejay Oslon and Scott Coffman. Putting in his time as a brewer has allowed Drew to hone his skills on a production-scale brewing system. He's had a significant hand in the brewing at Pipeworks since batch eight—batch sixty-four is being brewed as I write this. And yet the launch of 18th Street has been anything but secret.
Sunday, 9:00 a.m. Gary, IN.
"I usually brew a few batches here on the weekend," he says. But today he's brewing just one, a Blonde ale, using traditional and non-traditional spices, such as jicama. Drew leads me around back to the brewhouse. The space is tidy, one he built himself with his cousin Jermaine Fox. High ceilings and exposed insulation. In working alongside Drew at Pipeworks I'm confident that cleanliness will not be an issue at his future brewhouse in Gary. The challenge may instead be this: proving to Gary that it is worthy of investing in itself.
It goes without saying that Drew's investment in Gary is his brewery, 18th Street. An investment that comes with risks he has recognized, embraced, even. Here is a man who has quit his day job as a restaurant manager in Chicago—at a 5-star hotel, no less—to realize his dream.
On weekday mornings, Drew boards the South Shore Line en route to Chicago. Up before the sun. Convenient that the train stops no more than a block from his house: a modest two story, white paint peeling, the front bay window facing a boarded-up lot.
"It's a depressed area," Drew says. "So much potential. But yeah, it's depressed." As it stands, the latter is more readily mentioned. In 2011, a group of photographers from Rockford, IL took the opportunity to contrast the condition of their city—having been ranked by Forbes as the 9th most dangerous in America—with the apparently worse off, more miserable Gary, IN. The photos stand for little more than a journalistic cheap shot.
Stirring the boil, Drew reflects: "But the people of Gary deserve better."
We open a few Pipeworks beers, and Drew shares his excitement for 18th Street's first two releases. The second release is of a style you might expect. But the first release, well, he'd kill me if I gave too much away. It's a strange style. I had to ask him to spell it out for me, because I'd never heard of it before.
Sunday, 11:30 a.m.
Drew says we're done. It is his birthday, after all, and he's looking to get the jump on a visit to Three Floyds. The wort left to cool in the brewhouse, Drew leads us into his basement, or "The Nubian Overlord lair." This is where the fermentation happens.
A refrigeration system is in place. Two carboys bubble away, each cloaked with temperature-controlled fermwraps. One carboy of a spicy, pepper-infused Imperial Stout rests on the other side of the room. "It's almost done, man. The fresh hop," Drew says. He pulls a sample of Lyndale IPA, his first fresh-hop beer, and one that would not have been possible without the generosity of Robert Chamberlain.
In getting to know Robert Chamberlain I think I can fairly well pin him to three personality traits of note: he is approachable, fiery, and above all, German. His voice is downright booming. Dark head of hair and some gray along the sides. Mustached. Later, over beers at his house in Logan Square, I wondered if a noise violation wasn't in order. Although, after our conversation I'm certain the the neighbors will have no trouble pronouncing Weihenstephaner.
Oddly enough, I met Robert through Andy Coleman, head brewer at Piece. Robert told me he had been growing fresh hops, and I said I'd have them put to proper use. So we picked them, and Drew made a fresh hop IPA. Community, man.
In terms of the 18th Street bandwaggon, I'm a little late to the party. Drew's vision has been embraced by many in Chicago, old friends, new ones, and comrades in brewing, eager to support in whatever way possible. They'll soon have their chance. Later this week Drew will launch his Kickstarter campaign. The ETA on bottled 18th Street beers is early 2013.
Last month, at the request of Brian and Chris of Tesa Cigar Co., Drew poured two 18th Street beers during an event hosted for Drew Estate. Brian and Chris have been a huge support to 18th Street, offering a venue for Drew to pour his beers once a month. As usual, Drew was warmly received—the place was packed, and both kegs kicked. Through the haze of cigar smoke, friends and first-time 18th Street drinkers alike embraced Drew, congratulating him, asking when the beer will on shelves. I'd suspected it, but right then I knew: Drew is actually going to do this.
Sunday, 4:00 p.m. Munster, IN.
Sitting inside Three Floyds Brewing. Over poutine and Topless Wytch Drew reminds me that the Humboldt Park of his childhood is worlds apart from what it is today. Racial tensions had been high. Gang activity was rampant and bloody. Drew remembers a time when knowing the right people could allow you—or in Drew's case, his wife—simply to walk alone through the neighborhood. I get the sense that those years in Humboldt Park have afforded Drew more than street smarts and cool—they've equipped him with an unwavering determination to succeed.
I'm struck with the idea that the people sitting with us at Three Floyds—however far they drove—may soon add 18th Street to their docket of Indiana brewery stops. I hope like hell they do. And with what Drew has in store over the coming months, I'd imagine he'll give them more than a few reasons to do so.
"Gary is undergoing a renaissance," Drew says. "That's a testament to our new mayor, Karen Freeman-Wilson." If there's a renaissance in Gary, I'm convinced Drew is a part of it. On the brink of launching his Kickstarter, Drew has posed this challenge to his family, friends, and supporters: "All in?"
We are. I am. Are you?
My cousin Seth Ekberg filmed and edited an interview with Drew. Drew talks about what community means to him, brews the aforementioned Blonde ale, and takes us on a walk through Gary. Click the link below.
Great American Beer Fest was a few weeks ago—let's recap: turns out the Midwest swept the American Pale Ale category—no small feat, with 109 entries in total—while both Goose Island and Revolution Brewing took Gold for their IPA and Cross of Gold, respectively. Right on.
To the collective groan of area liquor store employees, Three Floyd's took the bronze for Zombie Dust. Piece Brewery & Pizzeria returned from Denver with a silver medal for The Weight. Their chalkboard of accolades is nearly full at this point. And the unlikely Brickstone Brewery won gold for their Brickstone APA. Hey, hey, Bourbonnais.
This Kettlekeepers story is about Piece's Head Brewer Andy Coleman. It's also about what happens when you're introduced to the stranger beside you at the bar. Above all, it's a close-up on someone who would never seek one out.
I first met Andy at Pipeworks. He would stop by around 6:00pm, often after a double-brew day. Wabansia felt magnetic. I had trouble remembering everyone's names then. I liked the way Andy would make the rounds, cigarette dangling and a wisecrack in the exhale. He'd open a growler of The Weight or Victoria and share brewing stories, some from his days brewing in New Mexico. This was before it got too cold to keep the S&R door open. Before Brad and Jason of Spiteful had their own fully equipped brewhouse—word is they'll have bottles on shelves by Thanksgiving.
I don't see Andy as much anymore. But when Piece won silver at GABF I knew I'd found my reason to visit and take a few final pictures to complete the story.
Piles of malt along a corridor back to the tanks. Note: as a rule, never eat and then leave the remains of your meal near open bags of malt. Andy will not be happy. Mozzarella Kölsch, is that what you want?
For as particular as Andy is about the brewhouse, he was more than happy to let me tag along and take pictures, once in September and once right after The Weight won silver. He just really likes the Alpha King t-shirt.
I could praise Andy for his work ethic and dry sense of humor, explain that The Weight couldn't have been more deserving of the silver, a complement to Brewmaster Jonathan Cutler. Rather, what I most admire about Andy is that his interest in beer extends beyond its brewing: he cares about the people drinking it. If he's not in the back brewing, he's out in the restaurant, trading barbs with Darcy at the bar or shooting the breeze with regulars.
Each time I've been to Piece Andy has introduced me to the person sitting next to me. That's hospitality. One introduction resulted in my spending a Saturday picking hops in Logan Square. More on that next week.
So how do you bring strangers together? Beer is a start. A good host. Pizza's not a bad idea, either. How novel. If you haven't figured it out yet, Piece is a Wicker Park must-visit.
Calvin: "Don't worry, Brandon, you're looking jacked."
Brandon: "Welp, uh—"
Andy: "I'm Humpty Dumpty, boys!"
Correct me if i misquoted that, guys.
Touring through the brewery, Andy rattles off ideas for upcoming beers and thoughts on beer culture in Chicago. He relays his excitement for GABF, which was weeks away at the time. The surroundings are a little claustrophobic, but the current brewhouse is efficient and the demand is high, Andy says, so an expansion isn't quite in order yet, although it is in the pipeline.
Brewmaster Jonathan Cutler, Head Brewer Andy Coleman, and Assistant Brewer Brandon Stern, with their silver medal-winning APA, The Weight. The newest addition to the Piece brewing team, Brandon is also enrolled in a course at Siebel Institute. Cheers to good beer being brewed by good people in Chicago. Carry on, Kettlekeepers.
Ed Marszewski throws one hell of an Oktoberfest. While certain Oktoberfests favor the seasonality of a bottomless Märzen stein, this particular Oktoberfest was held in celebration of the second edition of Chicago's own craft beer journal, Mash Tun. Get your mits on one here. Great coverage, stories, photos, and interviews within.
Spent coals from a complimentary pig roast by pork enthusiasts Flesh for Food. The line for their sandwiches coiled around beer vendors for fifty feet. By 7pm the Bridgeport Art Center Atrium was packed. Upon entry, attendees received a Mash Tun journal and a glass. Pours were generous. The Port-a-John wait was reasonable. All present were in high spirits. I never got to try the pork sandwiches.
That's Eli holding Three Floyds' Snow Weasel. Definitely a highlight for many of us. Jolly Pumpkin tapped what I think was called La Pareles, which was superb. Other standouts: Half Acre's Sticky Fat, 5 Rabbit's 5 Grass, Pipeworks' Blood of the Unicorn, and to whomever was pouring Founders, a collective "thank you" from all of us, for the full pints of Breakfast Stout.
Max Wastler of Buckshot Sonny's and All Plaid Out resurrected verses by poet S.E. Kiser, penned in the early 1900's. Kiser spoke out against the absurdity of the temperance movement that ultimately preceded prohibtion. More about that here, from the perspective of this very poet's great-great-nephew, Michael Kiser.
The Pipeworks crew looking downright unfriendly. Frightened by Bobby's leather jacket? Me too. Dates back to the 60's. Cool as a rail; holey as a block of swiss.
Cheers to a marvelous, cold night in Bridgeport on October 5th, 2012. Like what you see? Ed calls Bridgeport the "Community of the future." He might be right. Stop by Maria's and see what all the fuss is about.
Note: You are seeing a picture followed by a slam poem directed at someone I care about. The first subject is Skyler. This Poem Is Treason.
I'll get you, my pretty,
if it's the last thing that I do.
They know me here at Scofflaw.
Have you seen my tattoo?
Bunch of candles on the table—
it's like they never learn.
Banned from Local Option 'cause
I spill what I first burn.
Waiter! One Tom Collins;
she'll have a Weatherbee.
I just can't wait to get you all alone, my dear,
and kiss you on the cheek.
Looking like a million bucks.
The pomade and the perfect cuff.
I'll get you, my pretty,
if it's the last thing that I do.
Nine miles back to Bridgeport.
I'm broke from all the drinks.
Let's walk it then, my pretty,
and pray we don't get jumped!
The corner of Wabansia & Western smells like beer, and Pipeworks is the reason. I had been biking past their warehouse when I saw eight people standing inside the loading dock, drinking and laughing. So I stopped and talked to the one who most closely resembled a brewer, Beejay Oslon: bearded, tattooed, and shirtless. He invited me to come back the next day to photograph the brewing of Foolish Wit. I took the pictures, sure, but ended up staying to lend a hand.
Today marks the two week mark.
Bottling is usually Monday-Wednesday, while Thursday and Friday are brew days. Today they brewed what is perhaps their most popular beer, Ninja vs. Unicorn, a delicious and mightily bitter double IPA. Don't expect it to stick around for long, though—sometimes you're lucky if you find it on shelves past two days.
Over the past two weeks at Pipeworks I began to piece together just who all these people are. In addition to volunteers, I realized Pipeworks co-founders Beejay Oslon, Gerrit Lewis, and Scott Coffman were in the talented company of two other brewers: Andrew Fox of 18th Street Brewery (Gary, IN) and Brad Shaffer of Spiteful Brewing (Chicago).
The brewery end of Pipeworks—the mash tuns, fermenters, oak barrels, etc—bear most accessible payoff for the consumer: beer. But the business end of Pipeworks is not to be overlooked. Each day in the Pipeworks office, Gerrit and Bobby can be found consulting with accounts, placing orders, handling distribution, coordinating events, overseeing deliveries, and planning the construction of their upcoming on-site bottle shop. The two of them largely head up the social media arm of Pipeworks, one that "flexed," as Beejay has been known to say, its muscles in a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign.
I've also come to see that any one of these guys can do and does virtually every other job under the roof, in the office or out in the brewery. It's a breadth of skill and perspective from everybody involved that reminds me of the '03-'04 Detroit Pistons. I do not know how to finish that analogy, but I'm sticking with it.
Three arbitrary observations of Pipeworks:
1.) Lunch is provided daily. Knock on wood.
2.) Conversation can spill over from days and months prior. I have to wonder how long everybody has known each other.
3.) Foolish questions are subject to being laughed at, but never go unanswered.
There is no pretense, no hierarchy, only work to be done.
All told, the age-gap of the volunteers and brewers spans about thirty years. It seems there is a brotherhood here, an affinity for good beer, literature, music, and a sense of humor informed as much by the locker room as the Huffington Post.
Camaraderie at Pipeworks is sustained by many things, I've gathered, but of particular note is their ability to sabotage the inevitable late-morning funk. Nearly every morning around 10:00am someone comes to work with doughnuts. Chocolate, cake, pumpkin doughnuts. Sometimes breakfast sandwiches. This is to say, "I love you guys. Enjoy. Your turn tomorrow."
These days the fermentation tanks are full. The floor is lined by pallets loaded with bottled beer. Shipments of hops, malt, bottles, caps and labels are frequent—Pipeworks is bustling. They remain entirely self-distributed. Industry friends and curious neighbors stop by routinely. No one goes ignored.
"Do you guys have a tap room?" "Where can I get your beer?" And lastly, "Are you guys hiring?" I look around the brewery and see a team of hard workers, both paid and unpaid. The scarred hands of Scott stirring the wort of a spiced holiday ale. Brad is filling bottles and Mike is capping. Gerrit and Bobby are at their computers in the office, typing, printing invoices. Andrew is washing glasses and tri-clamps in the sink. Beejay tells the person asking that they aren't hiring just yet.
At the rate this brewery is moving, however, that prospect may not be far off.
Yesterday was the bottling of a raspberry Berliner Weisse, Well Read Temptress. It was a cloudy, Ella Fitzgerald kind of day. But when the sun came out the Pandora station was changed to Bob Marley. Pipeworks' resident cat Kingston slept on bags of 2-Row malt, while Jonas, the namesake of Jones Dog Milk Stout, begged for a slice of pizza.
From 9:00am to 3:15pm we bottled nearly ninety cases of Temptress on a bottling line with only three spigots. An eight-spigot bottling line is being built, but the three-spigots are working just fine. And this is what I find so appealing about Pipeworks, the sheer practicality of their operation.
They renovated the building themselves. They tiled the floor themselves. The bottle artwork is done by friends or Beejay himself. This is their ambition—Beejay and Gerrit's dream over two years in the making—realized, funded and accomplished by their efforts and the backing of their supporters.
The city—and for that matter, the country—has taken notice, attracting media coverage from the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, Draft Magazine, and beer enthusiasts nationwide. Last August I met a couple from New York who knew of Pipeworks, intended to buy whatever beer they could by Pipeworks, and wanted to trade for more Pipeworks upon their return to New York. Why should any of that come as a surprise? The beer speaks for itself. And the guys at Pipeworks have also shown that the feedback of those who try their beer is valuable—brewing missteps have been acknowledged and recipes have been altered as a result. Want to know what I'm excited about? It rhymes with Farleyshrine.
'03-'04 Pistons. You heard it here first. Here's to my new friends at Pipeworks. I'll see you on Monday, fellas.
Part II of the Black IPA series: Rage Imperial Black IPA by Greenbush Brewery. We were headed to Ludington State park—Sawyer seemed like a sensible place to stop. Michael Kiser's coverage of Greenbush over at Good Beer Hunting gave me the idea. So we dropped by, picked up a growler of Dunegräs IPA and a bottle of Rage (after Matt pulled me a sample), and we were on our way.
We finished the Dunegräs and watched the sun rise over Lost Lake. The ground at our campsite was hard and the drone of our neighbor's TV was depressing. I don't think any of us slept well. Good hiking, though. Later we watched the sun set over Lake Michigan and felt better.
Two nights ago I opened Rage with Joey. At long last. Rage in all its roasty, piney, meaty glory. 14.6% ABV, 156 IBU. Hops: Goldings and Cascade. Coffee additions as well. I might as well say up front that Rage is a downright monstrous beer.
Appearance: Jet black. No light coming through whatsoever. Small brown head with tight bubbles. Alcohol legs.
Aroma: Hops. Chocolate, coffee, soy sauce. Hop profile is earthy, resinous.
Mouthfeel: Heavy-bodied. Thick, syrupy. Moderate carbonation. Very little booze burn. Extreme chocolate roastiness on finish. Hop bitterness quite present. My mouth is salivating.
Taste: Umami! Chocolate and coffee. Piney hops. Soy sauce. Date. Wait—yes, caramelized pork. Nutmeg. Very strange. Terrific.
Is Rage a hoppy imperial stout? A malty black IPA? I'm not sure that matters. It's an exceptional, dramatic, and elaborate clash of roasted malts and hops. You'll find its younger brother Anger, also a Black IPA (7.6% ABV, 85 IBU), on tap at Kuma's Corner and Haymarket with regularity.
In recent months Greenbush has collaborated with some of Chicago's finest (i.e. Haymarket and City Provisions). I doubt they'll need much introduction as 2012 comes to a close. Visit Saywer, MI. Greenbush is there. Reason enough?
Next week, in part III of three black IPAs: a west coast black IPA I picked up in Denver while on tour in a van I borrowed from the family of a childhood friend with whom I have long since lost touch. Thanks, Kyle.
Pictures by Joe Lieske, Seth Ekberg, and myself.
Wookey Jack is here. Lately it's been floating around festivals and beer gatherings, but only ever on tap. Firestone Walker announced its bottle release earlier this summer. Then they postponed it a week later. Well, it was worth the wait. Wookey is the first in a series of three Black IPAs I'll be covering. Somebody's got to do it.
Introducing: the Black IPA. Roasty, citrusy, chocolatey, piney. For all intents and purposes certain hoppy Porters or Stouts could also bear the title Black IPA (i.e. Flying Dog's Gonzo and Victory's Storm King). But to be specific, Wookey Jack is a Black Rye IPA. ABV: 8.3%. IBU: 60. Hops: Magnum (bittering), and Amarillo & Citra (aroma).
Appearance: Hazy black. Burgundy at perimeter when held up to light. Three finger khaki head. Looks pillowy. Mild lacing.
Aroma: Orange zest and chocolate right up front. Pine. Sweet floral astringency coupled with assertive roastiness. Smells terrific.
Mouthfeel: Light/medium-bodied. Effervescent and fairly dry on the finish. Lasting finish.
Taste: Bright hoppiness. Citrus character and chocolate. Neither overpowers the other. Balanced. Roasty sweetness and pine bitterness. Caramel. More citrus fruit. Mango. Mild spice from the rye. Hardly any booze burn. It's delicious.
The verdict: extremely drinkable. I almost wish I hadn't split it with Joey. Strange to think Firestone Walker is located in the heart of wine country (Paso Robles, CA). There isn't a bad beer in their portfolio, and their labels are superb. Having good art and copy, I think, is critical in validating craft beer as having a place at our dinner tables, right alongside wine, and that it can be just as easily, if not better, paired with food.
I challenge the Black IPA skeptic to dislike Wookey. Here Firestone Walker has struck a balance within a style few brewers have thus far. Let me say that number two in this series of three Black IPAs will not be so balanced. Hint: it was discovered in southwest Michigan. At over 14% ABV, I may have bitten off too much. Wish me luck. Coming next week.
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I'm going to be popping in on these blogs every now and then, but I'm also going to be cleaning house and deleting many of my other blogs. The semi-hiatus is continuing for an unknown length of time.
So as you may have noticed I haven't really been doing anything online lately. I've hit a major slump and as such none of my muses are really co-operating. Now, this is partially because of issues I've been having at home with an argument going on within my family, and partially because I'm currently focusing on getting another job while trying to sort of prepare for College in the fall— yes, I know that's a long way away but I like to be prepared.
But until I can drag myself and my muses up from the abyss, all of my blogs will be placed on a semi-hiatus. that is, every couple of days I will probably check them, but I probably won't be taking part in any rps, although if you want to set one up with me, I will gladly hoard drafts to do once I snap out of it.
C'rizz looked up curiously from his journal as the TARDIS door was pushed open- he still found it odd that it said pull and yet needed to be pushed- to admit a blonde female. Most likely a human, knowing the Doctor. "Hello. Looking for the Doctor?"
"Sometimes. Does that make me special?" She said, to answer his question. "I don't get out much." She shifted on his lap and uncrossed her legs. "Your lap is making my ass hurt." She reached out to tap him on the nose. "If I let you up are you gonna bolt?"
"Tell me you're not him." She made a disgruntled noise. It wouldn't be the first time she'd walked into the TARDIS expecting to see one face and found a different one altogether. "I appreciate spontaneity in a relationship as much as the next girl but I can barely keep track of the faces he already has."
"I have a feeling you're utterly special enough already without taking that into consideration as well." He quipped, rolling his eyes and she squirmed. "Well unlike you I'm not squishy so I hardly make the greatest chair. Comes with having an exoskeleton I presume." Neglecting to mention how utterly, strangely fragile most creatures in this universe seemed to him, he shrugged. "If I did I'd probably hear about it later from the Doctor, and Charlotte would most likely be angry with me for being rude, so no."
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Alt. title: "Pieces of Eight." XD
Sketches of the Eighth Doctor, whom I love so ridiculously much! Also featuring Charley (Charlotte Pollard), the companion he refused to give up even though the laws of time and Time Lords demanded it.
I adore these two. The world needs more Eight and Charley! More Eighth Doctor, period. He is one of the sweetest, most adorable, enthusiastic, charismatic and passionate Doctors ever, though the pendulum can too easily swing to a darker, colder nature full of snark and weary of battle. And need I mention he is also played by PAUL MCGANN! *___*
If you need more convincing of his adorableness, here is an audio snippit of him rummaging through his bottomless pockets in search of sunglasses for Charley: LISTEN NOW
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"I think you'd look lovely in a dress," she said. "Particularly something pink, I should think. You could make yourself a complementary tone—it would work nicely," she told him before she was distracted by the shop's interior.
Charley turned straight towards the exotic looking bookshelves while C'rizz wandered away on his own. She scanned the spines of the heavy tomes with interest, catching glimpses of all sorts of books: cookbooks, instructions for hunting, a book entitled Getting Inside Your Partner's Head (Literally), and several others with letters that didn't quite come into focus no matter how long she stared at them.
"I see you've found our literary section!" the shopkeeper said enthusiastically. She turned to look at him and had to bite her tongue to keep herself from inquiring about his eyes. Surely she had to look just as odd to him as he did to her.
"I have," she said instead.
"These are all very rare," he informed her, his tone still impossibly cheerful. "They're said to hold mysterious powers." His eyes all glittered as he spoke and she found herself smiling at the small man.
"I can't seem to read some of these titles," she told him as she reached up to tap the book that was giving her the most trouble.
He hurriedly snatched her wrist before she could touch it. "I would be very careful if I were you—these tend to… ah… bite."
"Oh," she replied and stared at it in confusion. "Do you mean literally?" she asked.
The shopkeeper laughed. "I see you are a very curious young lady! Perhaps I have something of interest for you in the back…?" he indicated the beaded doorway a few meters from where they stood.
"Well," Charley hesitated, glancing up at C'rizz. "I suppose I'd like to see more."
Studying several rather odd statuettes, including a couple that appeared to move when viewed out of the corner of ones eye, he found himself rather absorbed in the intricate details on each. Small gemstones, swirling patterns, a few had tiny sayings etched into them. Some of these are probably local deities or something. All in all C'rizz found them rather engrossing. Perhaps I should get one of these? If nothing else it would serve to liven up my living space a little. He nearly snorted at the thought.
My new home needs about as much livening up with Charlotte and the doctor around as I need a hole through my head. Looking up to call Charlotte's attention to the statuettes, he found that he could no longer see her.
C'rizz looked up curiously from his journal as the TARDIS door was pushed open- he still found it odd that it said pull and yet needed to be pushed- to admit a blonde female. Most likely a human, knowing the Doctor. "Hello. Looking for the Doctor?"
"Don't sound so surprised, it's not like I keep track of you guys." She didn't know the names of half of the Doctor's traveling companions, and that went double for the regenerations that she didn't know as well. She needed a book just to keep up with all those faces of his, she didn't stick around long enough to learn his companions too. "I don't travel with him, we just see each other sometimes." He visited her, or she visited him. It was more often the latter. Despite her disinclination to travel with him, part-time or otherwise, she did like seeing that stupid face of his. Any stupid face of his.
"Tell me you're not him." She made a disgruntled noise. It wouldn't be the first time she'd walked into the TARDIS expecting to see one face and found a different one altogether. "I appreciate spontaneity in a relationship as much as the next girl but I can barely keep track of the faces he already has."
She grinned at him when he finally opened up his eyes. "Don't get up on my account."
"Hard to get up if you're sitting on me." He restrained himself from rolling his eyes, instead opting to try and lean back further, not an easy feat when he was already pressed against the back of the chair. "So the Doctor comes back and visits you? That's certainly….. unexpected. He's never seemed like the type to do that sort of thing."
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"Well whatever it is, it's not pleasant." C'rizz had to fight to keep himself from turning mauve in disgust, knowing that if he started changing colours in front of anyone around here it would probably lead to nothing good. "How is anyone supposed to ignore anything that foul?"
She definitely didn't sulk a little when he slowed her pace. She was not that childish, thank you very much. She matched his pace and did her best to absorb everything. There were aliens so different than anything she had ever seen that she was finding it difficult to concentrate on walking and she was very grateful for C'rizz's guidance. She passed tall aliens, small aliens, aliens that walked on six legs, aliens that seemed to swim through the air, aliens who were glowing, aliens that seemed to be made of smo—
C'rizz interrupted her train of thought as he pointed out the shop and she pulled her gaze away from the particularly intriguing passerby to look at the shop. "Ohh, that looks lovely," she said before she beamed at C'rizz again. "Perhaps they'll sell you some sort of suit—or a dress, if you're so inclined." She shifted their path towards the shop cheerfully as she admired the diversity of the planet.
He snorted slightly. "I may prefer looser clothing, but a dress may be taking it a bit too far in my case. At any rate I think I'll leave the wearing of them to you, since they look nicer on you than they would on me." He stepped into the shop and looked around at an interior just as colourful and diverse as outside.
"This place has a little bit of everything…." He murmured to her, walking over to a tall glass case containing several machines composed of gears and wires that wandered about on their particular shelves in a variety of fashions; some on four legs, some on two, one slithered like a snake, and a few of them rolled about on wheels. "Curious." Turning from the clockwork robotics display, he surveyed the rest of the shop carefully, a wary eye on the shopkeeper now approaching Charlotte— a short, thin creature with skin like back and three eyes in a row going upwards on it's face. It was swathed in robes of rich fabric and seemed to be chatting earnestly but cheerfully at her, so he turned his attention to other things.
Those look interesting…. C'rizz drifted off to the back of the shop.
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"She's pretty," Ace remarked absently as Charley and C'rizz left to do god knows what. Dance. Right. "Look, Byron, you look nice and all, but I really don't think we should be talking. Web of time and all that, right?" Yet she couldn't help but pull him into a hug. Not to talk bad about her Professor, but this one looked much more… "open" was the word Ace would use. He looked sweet, innocent even — almost like he couldn't keep a secret to save his life. She had no doubt he could if he wanted, but he just seemed… well, nicer.
"Been a while for you then, I guess?" she asked, taking a step back to look him over. Huh. He got taller. Not by much, but just enough for her to get a little confused when she tried to look him in the eyes, and ended up having to tilt her head up just a tiny bit more.
"She is that, I suppose." He murmured absently, looking about for a moment before letting out a small chuckle and hugging Ace in return. "It wouldn't be the first time I've had a run in with past and/or future selves and companions, don't you worry. If it could handle it all those many other times, immensely irritating though they tended to be, then I don't think it should have any trouble compensating for this."
"It has! Only one body though, so not as long as it could have been. You're looking well, how long have you been traveling with me at this point? That younger me I mean." He wrinkled his nose for a moment in thought. "what was I thinking? A question mark jumper? And the umbrella! Ah well, at least my taste in clothing has improved, even if many other things probably haven't." The Doctor cast another wary eye around the hall for his companions, relaxing when he saw Charlotte and C'rizz moving around the floor in a swift but simple dance almost like a waltz.
"Care for a dance?"
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C'rizz looked up curiously from his journal as the TARDIS door was pushed open- he still found it odd that it said pull and yet needed to be pushed- to admit a blonde female. Most likely a human, knowing the Doctor. "Hello. Looking for the Doctor?"
"Tell me you're not him." She made a disgruntled noise. It wouldn't be the first time she'd walked into the TARDIS expecting to see one face and found a different one altogether. "I appreciate spontaneity in a relationship as much as the next girl but I can barely keep track of the faces he already has."She tilted her head, crossing her legs at the knee, and grinned. She propped her arm up on the back of the chair and rested her chin on her fist. "I understand the concept just fine." She bit her lip. "I just don't like it." She leaned in and blew a stream of air over his closed eyelids playfully, trying to get him to open them.
"Just someone you remind me of, Liz." She rapped her fingernails on the back of the chair absently. "Who's Charlotte?"
One eye opened just a crack before slamming shut again at the sight of her face so close to his. "Our traveling companion. She's been with the Doctor longer than I have." Odd that she hasn't met her…. perhaps she's been visiting when Charlotte is off exploring the TARIDS. C'rizz smiles a little at the thought, remembering spending ages being dragged through the corridors and rooms of this vast ship. His favorite find so far had been a dark, humid room full of tropical plants. Probably an offshoot of the arboretum.
Finally opening his eyes, C'rizz took a moment to get a proper look at her. "So why are you looking for the Doctor? And if you want the chair, I can get out of it you know."
Since she had no idea what sort of currency was used here, she argued the price down to the best of her ability before handing over the money. For all she knew, they had been thoroughly ripped off but there wasn't much she could do about it now. Charley took the packaged dress that the merchant had placed in a bag for her and turned back to C'rizz.
"Come on," she urged as she took his hand with a brilliant grin. "We have a whole planet to explore!" She led the way out of the stall and back onto the bustling street, an extra spring in her step.
He couldn't stop from grinning himself as she lead him outside, his own personality shifting to adapt to her giddiness. It was good to see her genuinely happy, C'rizz had seen Charlotte upset far too many times. "Yes but if we hurry we might miss something interesting." He tightened his grip in her hand minutely and gently encouraged her to match his somewhat slower pace, walking beside her.
His carapace had turned a shade of pinkish-white only a fraction darker than that of the materials used to make the roads and the majority of the houses— although these had largely been painted different colours. This market certainly was busy, and with all the other life forms moving past it was hard to focus on one thing for long. C'rizz couldn't recall the last time he had seen so many different species all in one place, certainly not one so peaceful yet diverse.
"Charley, what about that shop over there?" He gestured to one of the buildings nearby, its doors propped open and a colourful and varied display in the front windows.
// Sudden mental image to the Doctor and Charley dragging C'rizz into a cuddle pile and him basically flailing and being horrified for about ten seconds before giving up and cuddling them back with a little smile on his face and the three of them just laying in a pile of pillows and blankets for a while until something goes wrong with the TARDIS like usual.
C'rizz looked up curiously from his journal as the TARDIS door was pushed open- he still found it odd that it said pull and yet needed to be pushed- to admit a blonde female. Most likely a human, knowing the Doctor. "Hello. Looking for the Doctor?"
"Don't you dare." She bit the corner of her lip, smirking. "That face is a national treasure." She ran her hand along the edge of the console, leaning on it. She snorted. She didn't have that kind of time. Well, she did, but she wasn't going to waste it getting lost in here.
"Tell me you're not him." She made a disgruntled noise. It wouldn't be the first time she'd walked into the TARDIS expecting to see one face and found a different one altogether. "I appreciate spontaneity in a relationship as much as the next girl but I can barely keep track of the faces he already has."
"So he can find my dusty, dried out corpse in a closet somewhere a couple months from now? I can barely find the front door in this bitch as it is." She rapped her knuckles on the console with an apologetic smile. "No offense, Blue. I'll just wait for him."
As if to illustrate her resolve, she sauntered over to C'rizz, and the only available chair, nudged his arm out of the way, and planted herself in his lap. "Mind if I sit down, Krios? I'm sure the Doc won't be a minute. I'm Kirby, by the way." He might've heard of her.
The moment her intent became clear he moved to try and vacate the chair, but it was too late. With her perched on his legs and preventing his escape, C'rizz closed his eyes and sagged back in defeat, carefully closing his journal. "Now I know you're a friend of the Doctors. No concept of personal space at all." With his eyes still resolutely closed in an attempt to not acknowledge that some random, strange woman was sitting on him, he frowned at her nickname and found he simply had to ask. "Krios? Wha— who is that?"


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Do yourself a favor, check out the Asura's Wrath demo. Now.
If you're browsing through PSN's or XBLA's demos, you might find yourself leaning towards the new Final Fantasy XIII-2 demo. Save yourself the yawns and download Asura's Wrath instead.
Asura's Wrath takes the word "visceral" and carves it on your brain. You've got anime infused action that bounds far over over-the-top while sprinkling on the classy with classic orchestrated music to underscore the clash of gods. It's offbeat gameplay and quick-time event heavy cutscenes are sure to doom Asura to no more than cult status but throw this title a bone while it's still fresh and get your friends to peep it out.
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Becoming 'Khaleesi' - Stage Seven
Trousers and boots
It's very hard to get references of these trousers. And because of this I'm going to give you the best one i've found!
I found this reference AFTER I bought my fabric. So it needed some work. I bought a denim fabric with a slight stretch in a lightish blue.
I then hand dyed this with dylon dye in an antique grey.
I liked that this also added a textured finish that's very 'game of throne-sy' xD. I then made the trousers out of this using a very basic trouser pattern. I have a horrible history of trouser-making disasters so that's not something I wanted to risk with this, so it's just elasticated at the top. Nice and simple. xD Then I just tried them on for size. Dany's trousers are quite tight fitting but still loose around the knees (so she can strut like a badass mofo obviously)
After taking this I decided to weather the trousers more as my previous weathering didn't show up on the photo too much. I rubbed charcoal down the seams and in random areas, then I also mixed some charcoal with water and 'painted' that on random sections. I also used sandpaper on the knees and other points that would see wear and tear.
And here's a blurry photo of the finished result. The weathering is clearer now. :3
As a side note - Boots! Dany has boots with a slight heel and strips of fabric wrapped around them. Again, very tricky to find references of. I was very prepared to have to make boot covers, but by a stroke of luck I found very similar boots on ebay! So sorry not much of a tutorial here! D: The only difference with my boots is that they end slightly higher than Dany's. I did consider modding this, but tbh I was a little worried about ruining them and causing more harm than good. xD I'm super happy with these boots as they are so they're staying this way. :D
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Petra Kuester joins board of Schenker (UK) Ltd
By Gaurav Sharma | CFO UK | Published 11:55, 17 January 13
International transport and logistics firm DB Schenker has appointed Petra Kuester as the new CFO of Schenker (UK) Limited.
In a statement, the global firm's UK arm said Kuester will join at the end of January replacing Per Holst-Nielsen who has moved to a role in Sweden at Schenker AB.
Oxford-born Kuester joined DB Schenker in 1998 and has held various positions within the company. She is currently the CFO of DB Schenker (Canada); a position which she took office for in 2007.
Commenting on her appointment, Helgi Ingolfsson, CEO of Schenker Limited, said, "I am very happy to welcome Petra Kuester to the UK organisation. She has a great financial background and will bring many advantages especially in terms of understanding different business cultures."
"Furthermore not only due to her qualifications and experience having our first female UK board member is a bonus. This helps towards the DB goal as well, which is to increase the proportion of women in top management positions within the group," Ingolfsson added.
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This is a re-up of an essay I wrote at the Diplomat a few weeks ago. Basically, I ask if China can find a way to pull its neighbors into a cooperative project in east Asia, or if Chinese hegemony is just going to be a regional despotism. It is increasingly likely that China will resume its place at the top of east Asian pile, as it was before the Opium Wars. This unnerves everyone, but this is probably unstoppable, unless the US and Japan wage some kind of preventive war on China, or unless China's neighbors work closely to contain it for a lengthy period of time. Neither is likely. Japan might give China a run for its money, if Abe can get Japan moving again, but China is pulling away so fast, that this would be a tough climb (not that Japan shouldn't try).
So if Chinese regional hegemony seems increasingly likely, how will China govern it? Will it just be an exploitative tyrant like the USSR was in Eastern Europe? Or will it try to tie in the locals to a structure where they have some rights and voice opportunities, like the Roman Empire or the old Chinese tribute system? I predict this will be the big question in Chinese foreign policy in about 20 year, and the signs so far are not encouraging:


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Fresh from their miraculous Game 7 win over the Maple Leafs, the Bruins will open the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Rangers on Thursday night, the NHL announced Monday night. The Bruins, as the No. 4 seed, have home-ice advantage for the series against the Rangers, who finished as the No. 6 seed and eliminated the Capitals, 5-0, in Game 7 Monday night in Washington.
The Bruins will play Game 1 at TD Garden at 7:30, and that will be followed up by Game 2 on Sunday at 3 p.m., also at TD Garden.
The series will shift to Madison Square Garden for Games 3 and 4. Game 3 will be next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. followed by Game 4 Thursday, May 23, at 7 p.m.
Game 5, if necessary will be back in Boston on Saturday, May 25. Game 6 would be Monday, May 27, at MSG and Game 7 would be back in Boston on Wednesday, May 29.
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Square Enix has revealed two new pieces of FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 merchandise.
Also announced is a 232 page book titled "FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 Fragments Before." For ¥1,470, this novel takes place immediately before the events of XIII-2. Similar to FINAL FANTASY VII's "On the Way to a Smile," "Fragments Before" will contain several stories revolving around characters such as Serah, Snow, Noel, and Rygdea & Bartholomew Estheim:
Serah: Memories of the year AF0.
New Bodhum: A story of the year AF3.
Snow: The story of his departure.
Rygdea & Bartholomew: The creation of a provisional government, and the secret history of the founding of the Academy.
Noel: The end of the world, a period of uncertainty.
It's also due out on the same day as the game's release. Written by Jun Eishima of Episode i fame, the novel is being supervised by Motomu Toriyama and Daisuke Watanabe as well.
Source : Nova Crystallis (click for more info on another book - a postcard book)
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Um, about that press release... and map.
Yeah, I thought I'd knock that blog out and pick up the peices later. Well, here we with the peices.
First of all, I used an old TxDOT map. You'll see that is now adjusted to show the Trans-Texas Corridor's current proposed distance from Alamo City.
Second: Just as the march will go on, public comments will keep being received, TxDOT officials say. And private-property-rights-ruffling TTC is same as it ever was, apparently.
Hall updated her press release on her website to make clear strange doings that DO NOT foretell the end of TTC... At least hers was not an intentional April Fools item... like that NPR report on the IRS sending out consumer goods rather than promised rebates to those taxpayers determined more likely to pay down their debt than go shopping.
I passed that one on twice already. Sheesh!
Here's Hall's amendment:
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Find Top 10 best things to merch for both F2P and P2P items.
It looks like there's going to be a lot of really good Items to merch on Runescape for the spring of 2014!
The look of the charts makes me think that Jagex may have recently solved some important botting issues – and it appears to be having a very significant change in the supply of some basic items, which could force prices to spike and then crash, or, if this is a good fix, prices will rise steadily for months!
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Hot date with dolls at Japan's war-criminal shrine
Japan's loves tweaking the nose of the rest of Asia with their official visits of their cabinet ministers and diet members to the controversial Yasukuni Jinja—the national war shrine that commemorates those who have died in service of the Empire of Japan including 1,068 war criminals (Wiki).
Guy brought a doll out to #Yasukuni
I can't say the Yasukuni Shrine would be a great place to take a date but at least the love doll above cannot complain very much.
And speaking of dolls, yesterday Japan's Prime Minister Abe sent his so-called "harem" of utsukushii cabinet ministers to Yasukuni Shrine to assuage the souls of Japan's dead war criminals*.
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New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation
Te Tumu Whakawhiti Tuhinga o Aotearoa
On this page:
- Overview
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In Memory and a Pocketful of Words – published in the Times Literary Supplement in 1964 – Janet Frame ONZ CBE (1924-2004), one of New Zealand's most distinguished writers, provides an insightful and moving appreciation of literary translation:
"While I explored the settlement of tragedy, as a reader I found in foreign territory among Russian, French, Norse, Italian languages, an English boarding house where the translators lived. How faithfully they worked, going out every day, foraging alone, directed by scholarship and individual taste, bringing home (however cramped in English briefcases) the masterpieces of foreign literature! When other writers may have their reward by feasting with the Gods, the translators, who have given so much, will be sitting down as usual to their dull boarding house tea watched over by the boarding house rules pasted on the four walls of their dining room. English readers however familiar with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Ibsen, Dante. Kafka and others, will know that to each of the translators the writing on the wall is a personal illuminative text into which the rules have been absorbed as if, written at first with invisible ink, they had been held before the flame, had been made visible, then had returned beneath the surface to light the new text of imagination: out of sight, like glowworms. From these translators with their briefcases and boarding house tea I drew inspiration as exploring reader. I 'breathed in' the works they brought home to the English language. How does one survive on such shadow oxygen unless it is that survival depends on the basic forma of the shadow and the reality. and not upon the surroundings from which they are drawn? The oxygen may lack its original distinctive flavour but if one is desperate to go on living one cannot wait to take part in the full tragedy of 'smelling the air'—or of tasting it: it is enough that it is pure, perfect O."
The New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation (NZCLT) – officially launched on 3 March 2008, by the then Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Helen Clark – was established to support research projects and activities in the theory and practice of literary translation, celebrating the work of both New Zealand and foreign language writers.
The Centre is an innovative and exciting research hub that hosts a core group of literary translators from the Asian and European Languages programmes at Victoria, maintaining links and forging collaborations with national and international scholars, authors, literary translators, publishers, cultural institutions.
The objectives of the Centre are:
- to research issues relating to literary translation, particularly of New Zealand literature;
- to provide support for the translation of New Zealand writers, in part through the eventual establishment of a translator's residency;
- the raise the awareness of the wider community about the process and relevance of literary translation;
- to develop literary translation activities in teaching and professional areas;
- to collaborate with other centres, institutions and agencies across the world on literary translation practices and policies.
The work of the Centre – which includes an annual public lecture, seminars and publications – is planned and implemented by a Committee which includes staff members from the School of Languages and Cultures as well as from other academic divisions (currently, the International Institute of Modern Letters and Wai-te-ata Press) under the leadership of a Director.
The Centre welcomes research proposals (MA and PhD in Literary Translation Studies) in translational topics related to the languages and cultures taught in the School and to the research profiles of staff.
Current Director: Dr Marco Sonzogni, Senior Lecturer in Italian (2011-2014)
Founding Director: Dr Jean Anderson, Associate Professor of French (2008-2011)
At the Centre's launch, the first official publication, Been There, Read That! Stories for the Armchair Traveller (Victoria University Press) was also launched. The anthology contains more than twenty stories from twenty different countries, translated from over a dozen different languages. The anthology is a team effort, involving translators from the School of Language and Cultures, as well as other local and international specialists in language and literature from countries as diverse as Ireland, Iran, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, Austria, Switzerland, Mauritius and Venezuela, to name but a few. More publications have come out since (for further details see the staff profiles of the NZCLT Committee Members) and others are forthcoming.
Annual Lecture and Seminars
2014 Annual Lecture in Literary Translation Studies
Title: 'Hearing the Voice'
Julie Rose is a world-renowned translator. Her acclaimed translations include Alexandre Dumas' The Knight of the Maison-Rouge and Racine's Phedre as well as works by the French philosopher Paul Virilio, Jacques Ranciere, Chantal Thomas and others. She has translated essays written by authors including Vaclav Havel, Chantal Thomas on Proust, Jean-Louis Cohen, Hubert Damisch on architecture, Pierre Bourdieu on art and Yannis Tsiomis on high tech architecture.
In 2008 she delivered her English translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. This version of the book – published by Random House (Modern Library) – is the first full original unabridged English translation of the book. Julie Rose is a recipient of the PEN Translation Prize (NSW Premier's Prize and Medallion for translation).
Hosted by the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation, the Embassy of France and the Alliance Française
Past Lectures and Seminars
2013 - The Annual Lecture entitled 'The Secret Life of Dead Languages and the Role of Translation' was delivered by Diego Marani (Ferrara, Italy, 1959) is a bestselling author, translator, essayist, columnist, and blogger. .
2012 - The Annual Lecture entitled "Six or Seven Beginnings" was delivered by Michael Hofmann, award-winning poet, translator and critic.
2011 - The Annual Lecture was delivered by David Norton, Professor of English at Victoria University and was part of the worldwide celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
2010 - The Annual Lecture was part of the first international conference on literary translation,'Talking Past Each Other, Translating for Each Other' and consisted of three keynote addresses delivered by Paulo Britto, Professor of English at the Pontificia Universidade Católica (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Lawrence Venuti, Professor of English at Temple University (Philadelphia, USA); and by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University (New York, USA).
2009 - The Annual Lecture was delivered by Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland (NZ).
2008 - The Inaugural Annual Lecture was delivered by Breon Mitchell, Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Indiana University (Bloomington, USA).
In September and October 2009, under an agreement with the Korea Literature Translation Institute, the Centre welcomed Korean writer-in-residence, Kim Sun-Woo, to work on the translation of some of her poetry. Her books of poems include What If My Tongue Refuses to be Shut Inside My Mouth (2000), I Fall Asleep Under the Peach Blossoms (2003) and Who Sleeps Inside Me? (2007). She has also written essays, which have been collected in When the Moon Under the Water Unlocked (2002), Objects According to Kim Sun-Woo (2005), Sugar-like Kisses Entering My Mouth (2007), and Who Has Laid Inside This Rice Bowl Besides Us? (2007). She is also the author of a book of folk tales for the grown-ups titled Princess Bari (2003). She has received the Contemporary Literature Prize, the Chun Sang-byung Poetry Prize, and other literary awards.
Other distinguished national and international guests of the NZCLT include Bill Manhire, John Milton and Qui Xiaolong.
Postgraduate Student Research
The Centre hosts a number of postgraduate students, who are working on projects across a range of languages and approaches.
For a list of students, visit the Student Profiles page.