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Beervent 22: Peaks and Valleys
Favorite book: one of the best crime thrillers I read this year was @browneallover.bsky.social’s They All Fall the Same. Phenomenal writing.
Surprise beer: Mountain Girl Hefeweizen from Maryland’s own Union Brewing. A perfect thematic pairing.
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Beervent Day 21:
Favorite Book: King of Ashes. No one writes crime fiction better than @blacktopkid.bsky.social; his debut, Blacktop Wasteland, made me want to write my own crime thriller (so I did). The best in the game, 💯.
Surprise beer: a raspberry hefe—can’t wait to get into it!
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Beervent Day 20
Favorite book: Brilliance, by my pal Marcus Sakey. This trilogy is an absolute ride—mutants, superpowers, bureaucrats, family. Heart and brains. Top notch.
Surprise beer: Bell’s Porter, a great example of the style.
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Beervent 19: Throwbacks
Random beer: Dogfish 30th Ann Decadence, the OG biggy stout, aged in palo santo marron, whiskey, and Utupias casks. Yes please.
Favorite Book(s): classic Dean Koontz COOKED, and Strangers is in my top 5.
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Beervent 18
Favorite Book: IS Berry’s The Peacock and the Sparrow is the best spy novel in decades. America’s le Carré. And a nice person to boot.
Surprise Beer: Lakefront Honey Bock, with actual honeypot (ok barrel) on the label, which is perfect confluence.
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Beervent 17
Surprise Beer: A chocolate coffee stout from Dewey Beer. Perfect for winter!
Favorite Book(s): The Broken Earth trilogy, NK Jemisin. Strange, beautiful, rage-filled FAR future SF. Also a slow burning mystery with a staggering reveal and incredible payoff.
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* wanna know what Lee Child had to say about my military-adjacent crime thriller?
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Beervent 16th:
Favorite book: Reacher, Lee Child*. Great collection of essays about the genesis, growth, and journey of Jack Reacher and the man who writes him.
Surprise beer: a berry pancake sour from Imprint. Reacher loves pancakes, so it felt like a match.
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Beervent Day 15: Old School
Mystery beer: Thomas Hardy’s Ale, a venerable English Barleywine (1986 vintage on left, 2024 on right).
Favorite book: The Black Company series by Glen Cook. Grimdark low-ish fantasy before it was mainstreamed. Rough and ready.
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Beervent Day 14
Surprise beer: Free State’s west coast pils, a collab with Burnished and Lallemand.
Favorite Book: The Dark Tower, #7 (well, 8) in Uncle Stevie’s magnum opus. Never cried so hard at a novel. And no, that’s not the horn of Arthur Eld (though I wish).
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Beervent Day 13:
Favorite Book, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, by Michael Chandon, about an alternate America where the Jewish homeland is Sitka, Alaska. A phenomenal work.
Surprise Beer, a 14% abv malt liquor from Founders, my oh my.
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Beervent Day 12: 2 is better than 1
Today’s surprise beer: Brau Buddies, a collab lager between the venerable HofBrau and Lakefront Brewing.
Today’s favorite book: Lucifer’s Hammer by BFFs and brilliant SF writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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Beervent Day 11
Favorite book: Swan Song by Robert R McCammon, a phenomenal post-apoc thrill ride that’s reminiscent of The Stand while being very much its own great thing.
Random Beer: a peanut marshmallow stout from Equilibrium. Sign me TF up for this one.
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Beervent Day 10
Random beer: Dewey’s Sunset Eclipse, a strawberry chocolate stout. I have more reservations than a Bennigan’s on St Patrick’s Day but I’ll give it a shot.
Pair with David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, a matryoshka novel that’s stayed with me for 15 years.
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Pairing surprise beers with favorite books, day 9. This. Is. BEERVENT.
Blue Milk, a smoothie sour from Magnify Brewing in a galaxy far far away (aka New Jersey); should be…interesting.
Paired with Brian Daley’s Solo trilogy, the best Star Wars books; don’t @ me Thrawniacs.
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Beervent Day 8: Sweet n Sour
@joerlansdale.bsky.social is one of eight authors who I’ll read anything they write, anytime, anywhere. Rusty Puppy is one of my favorites in his wonderful Hap & Leonard series.
Pair with mystery beer number eight: Raspberry Jammin by Beer Tree!
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Beervent Day 7:
Ben McIntyre wrote Double Cross, the best spy novel I ever read: At times hilarious, even poignant. Only it’s not a novel, it’s nonfiction that reads like one.
Paired with Blush by Foam Brewers, because every now and again I like a fruited sour.
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Beervent Day 6: Darker
Succession + paranormal horror = FIEND, a deliciously sharp novel by the excellent @almakatsu.bsky.social, one of the best working today in *many* genres.
Pair with mystery beer 6, Founders Porter, one of my favorites in the style.
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Beervent Day 5:
Salvagia, by @timchawaga.bsky.social, a brilliant cli-fi noir that adeptly recalls the John D MacDonald’s Travis McGee, set in a climate-ravaged Florida and featuring secretive machines…
…a perfect pairing with Dewey’s Secret Machine fruited sour!
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Day 4 of Beervent, in which I open one of 24 random beers and pair it with a favorite book.
@jordanharper.bsky.social’s LA noir, Everybody Knows, is a poetic, tanto-sharp masterpiece.
Pair with The Bruery’s Valencia Orange radler; clean with a hint of sour—LA after a storm.
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Beervent Day 3: timey-wimey wibbly-wobbly.
Had to pair Blake Crouch’s twisty Recursion, the most realistic time travel thriller I’ve ever read, with First State’s Lucid Refraction hefeweizen. I mean, the label and nomenclature similarities almost require it.
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Day 2 of Beervent (wherein I pair a favorite book with one of 24 surprise beers from my wife as we approach the holidays)!
Today, darkness:
- Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks; wrecked me when I first read it at 12, and doubly so at 32.
- Robinson’s Fear of the Dark stout.
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Every holiday season, my wife gets 24 mystery beers. I open one a day, pairing it with a book that’s special to me.
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Day 1: classics.
- St Bernardus Christmas, a big spicy Belgian.
- Jim Crumley’s Thr Ladt Good Kiss, truly the last great PI novel.
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Two 9 pints mini-kegs of beer from Bristol Beer Factory, Milk Stout and Everytime
Happy Christmas BlueSky to those who celebrate. No #beervent today, but looks! Santa went via Bristol Beer Factory on his rounds last night.
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#beervent day 24, alas we have come to the end.
Pairing one of my favorite porters, from the folks at Bells in Michigan, with a tremendous near future SF trilogy about what it truly means to be human.
Written by one of the best humans I know, Marcus Sakey.
Happy holidays!
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Can of Barney's Beer not milk stout
#Beervent day 24, and on the last day I finally get a stout. Shame I have to drive, but I shall look forward to it later.
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#beervent day 23: classics!
Beer: the ultimate OG biggie stout, Breakfast from Founders.
Book(s): well, I love fantasy and science fiction with all my cold dead heart. I gotta rep anything from David Gemmell or Alan Dean Foster, who hooked me into the genres at age 10.
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Glass of beer next to the can, Bellfield Winter Warmer.
#Beervent day 23 is my favourite beer so far, a warm, rich and spicy winter ale from Bellfield.
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#beervent day 22; Peanut Butter Nitro Milk Stout from Left Hand. You know it’s going to be a fun beer.
Thus, today’s book pairing: this kickass, rollicking duo by @nicholaseames.bsky.social You want action? You want flawed characters you can’t root against? You want MUSIC PUNS? Read ‘em. NOW.
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