Books & Beers XVI

Michael Azerrad, This Band Could Be Your Life, and Ommegang's Scythe & Sickle

Books and Beers XV

I haven't posted one of these in a while. The color coordination is a mere result of what I happened to be drinking and reading on this particular night. The book the newer and better translation of Catherine of Siena's (1347-80) Dialogo della Provvidenza. The beer is Hop Whoppin' from O'so Brewing Company, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite Midwestern microbrews.

Books and Beers XIV

Patti Smith, Just Kids and Bell's Hopslam.

Books & Beer XIII (Devil Week)

Books & Beer XII (Devil Week)

Books & Beer XI (Devil Week)

As "inspiration" for a term paper on the discourse of demonology in the Friar's Tale, I started to drink more beers with artwork depicting the demonic.

Books & Beer #10

Neil Gaiman, Sandman #17-20 ("Dream Country") and Flying Dog Woody Creek White

Book & Beer #9

Unibroue Tres Pistoles & Frederic Jameson, The Political Unconscious 

Grad school: where complaining that your head hurts from too much Jameson has two meanings.

Books & Beer #8

Three Floyds Moloko Milk Stout & Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Books & Beer #5

Ommegang Abbey Ale & Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism

Books & Beer #6

Victory Baltic Thunder & C. S. Lewis, The Allegory of Love (1936)

 I've never had a "baltic" porter before but I'm crazy about Victory Brewing (Downington, PA) and I'v never seen this one before so I figured I'd try it. This was quite a strong for a porter (8.5%), but the alcohol was hidden well behind the dark, smoky, roasted toffee malts.

Aside from The Pilgrim's Regress, which is bad, The Allegory of Love was Lewis's first book. It's still read by medieval scholars and contains much of his best criticism.

Books & Beer #7

Goose Island Matilda & Maugerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls

Matilda is an extraordinary beer, and GI satisfies a certain homesickness. A very well-balanced and complex Belgian Strong Pale Ale, fruity, slightly floral, crispy.

Maugerite Porete was a Beguine mystic who lived during the later 13th century. In 1310 she was burnt at the  stake as a heretic.

Books & Beer #4

Brouwerji Lucifer and Paradise Lost

Aren't I clever

Books & Beer #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Floyd's Dreadnaught and Will Shortz's Favorite Sunday Crossword Puzzles

Books and Beer #2

Victory Storm King and Etienne Gilson's The Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy

Books & Beer #1

Tonight's entry in the Books & Beer series (also known as Literature and Liquor):


Victory Hop Wallop and The Complete Poems and Prose Writings of John Donne!