Hi Guys,

I keep track of you through the website, but you know I am busy. The gal and I have an almost new motor home and there are bars out there to explore. Thanks to coasters I have been reading a lot. For example did you know this?

Worldwide, 20,000 brands of beer are brewed in 180 styles, from ales, lagers, pilsner and stouts to bitters, cream ales and iced beers.

Beer has been a popular beverage for a long time. Even before I started drinking it. Babylonian clay tablets show detailed recipes of beer making in 4300 BC. Beer was also brewed by the ancient Chinese, Assyrians, and Incas. All good lads, at least the beer drinking part of them.

Anyway, an Egyptian text of 1600 BC gives 100 medical prescriptions using beer. We just know these days it makes you feel good. A few years ago, the New Castle Brewery in England brewed 1,000 bottles Tutankhamun Ale from a 3,200 year old recipe found in the sun temple of Queen Nefertiti. It must have been made right because the Queen made no complaint and women, no matter what age, always have the last word.

Commercial beer making was established in 1200 AD in present-day Germany. In 1506, the German Purity Law is issued, specifying that beer ingredients must only be water, barley, wheat, and hops. Bottling of beer started in 1605.

I learned more from the various coasters I have encountered at numerous bars. Thing is the lady and I are stuck on the 20,000 brands of beer. It is messing up our new career singing. You would recognize our hope to be popular song. It is a remake with our personal drinking touch. The lyrics are "There are 20,000 brands of beer on the wall, take one down, pass it a round. There are 19,999 brands of beer on the wall." It is kind of a long song, and we keep getting booed off the stage before we finish.

Your Buddy,
Suds