Maiden Voyage

Well if you've found this blog, you're either someone who knows me or were somehow misguided in your search for pictures of Antonio Banderas. But however you got here, you hopefully share my passion for the topic of this blog: beer.

I'll come clean. I'm starting this thing up because I'm bored and spend too much time in front of the computer. Though I think that anyone who claims to blog for any other reasons is probably fibbing. I also found out that you can actually make money from blabbing about nothing and posting it in cyberspace, and that got my attention.

I decided to write a blog about beer because I recently checked for beer reviewing websites and was surprised to find out that there are no good ones. It seemed to me that all the people reviewing were focusing on the wrong beers. There were tons of American beers reviewed, but not many European. I have nothing against American beers, but in my experience you need to taste the European originals before you can appreciate the American versions of these. This blog will focus on both American and European brews and try to give a fair review to everything that I drink.

I've drank many beers in my time. I earned a Master's in beer while attending USF and simultaneously getting my M.A. in History. The best thing about USF is that there's a little German restaurant in the mall across the street called Dunderbak's. Dunderbak's bosts a huge beer lists of brews from all over the world. I had the pleasure of drinking 4/5 of the some 500 various bottles and draft beers.

I now live in Arizona (hence the Desperado moniker) and have a job that does not take up nearly enough of my time. This is the first post in what I hope becomes a place for people who are beer lovers like me to come and discuss different styles and brands. More than that, though, I hope that people find this site when they are thinking about stepping out of the small fenced in yard that is the American macro-brew scene (these are people that claim Bud or Corona to be their favorite beers, but dream of something more). There is a world outside of gas station brands that is really worth trying and will probably change your opinion what beer really is.

So welcome. The first review will be coming within a few days and will most likely feature what's in my fridge right now. That is, the last remnants of the Sam Adams Winter Pack that I bought last month.

See you there.