R.I.P., The Beer Hunter

[yendi]

Michael Jackson, best known as The Beer Hunter (not to be confused with the singer of the same name) has died. :-(

I got to meet him once (he ran a Belgian beer tasting at the Carlos Museum at Emory a few years ago). A nice and enthusiastic man, and a great champion of the idea that beer doesn't have to be the tasteless swill that gets churned out under names like "Bud" and "Coors."

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[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

I was supposed to meet him at an appearance at the then Taco Mac in Cumming and had cleared some off time at work to do so...however the fuckwads I worked for arbitrarilly canceled my off time because of some "emergency"...hence I missed meeting him...:(

Damn sad loss...and yet the better known one still lives....

[smallerdemon.livejournal.com]

*sniff* Well, if there's one thing to do, it's raise a glass in his honor.

Thank the gods for him, too, for making it his mission to educate Americans on what good beer really is.

Between him and the microbrew movement we now have knowledge and access to genuinely amazing beers here in the US instead of the swill I grew up with.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

He was pretty damn awesome and a wonderful writer to. This is indeed sad. I didn't know about him having Parkinson's... so this hits double bad for me. :(

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I haven't read much of his work, but he was an influence on me.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Slainte Mhath. (http://www.awa.dk/glosary/slainte.htm)

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

he will be missed. I had the pleasure of hearing him speak at one of our Homebrew club meetings. I still remember one story he told:

He was in South Africa and was invited to try a Native "homebrew". It was served in buckets, a frothing mess of a beer. Everyone shared the same bucket.

He described staring into the bucket and repeating his mantra "There is nothing that can kill me that can live in beer!' as he took his sip. Then he noticed the woman across from him staring as though he had grown a third head.

"Sir!" she bellowed. "Kindly keep your thumbs out of the beer as you drink it!"

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

This is sad news.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Sociable!