Flu Memories
November 9, 2009
My daughter may have given me H1N1. Of course, we can’t be for certain. Around here, they don’t test two year olds. The doctors tell you that there is a “specific” strain going around. To avoid panic, this “strain” is never named, but we are led to know what it is. Eye contact. Pitch of voice. The doctor tries to be cautious with each word. I am in the field of rhetoric. I understand what “strain” means. To calm is also to panic. We are not used to high fevers; and a 103 fever causes us panic.
No matter. Her flu lasted about three days. Mine was over a week. I matched that 103. I still have a lingering cough. But the will to drink has returned. The will to beer has returned. And even though Ratebeer did away with the Daily Devotee (Was I ever one? As far as I know, no), and replaced it with Star4aDay, I still have not earned my 15 minutes of beer message board fame. I am an unknown. Unknown to me for over a week was the taste of a beer. The flu ruins beer for us all. Then the world returned to normal. I remained unknown on Ratebeer and, I opened some bottles.
Lightening Electrostatic Ale. From Poway, California. Spicy, fruity, wonderful saison. We emerge out of summer, into deep cold weather, and then here in November, it feels like late summer again. The saison highlights these changes. The saison is about seasonal change.
Midnight Sun Obliteration V. As soon as I get to V, VI is about to be released. In the world of beer releases, one can never keep up. This weekend, despite a cellar full of beer, beer brought back from Illinois by my wife, a trade arriving on my doorstep, a trade on its way, I rushed to buy the latest Boulevard Smokestack, Harvest Dance. I was just in time. After I left, one bottle remained. I own, I own, I own, I own more. This is the mantra of beer purchasing. Owning.
A small contribution I made to a recent get together. I might call this contribution: Novelty (thematic beer moves beer meaning – highway naming taste), Eccentricity (lone brewer making saisons unlike anyone else), The Lovely (romanticized Belgian style brewer whose beers are lovely. They achieve lovely-ocity).
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