Scat Makes the World Go Round w/ Aryn Hervel
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Join us with special guest Aryn Hervel as she leads us into the wonderful world of environmental detection and sewage talk. I promise its actually a lot more interesting than you think!  Aryn is Drinking: Jack's Ginn #3 Melon & Mint, Prohibition Spirits A unique gin made with cantaloupe and mint to suit all of your gin & tonic needs. ​40%ABV Rebecca is Drinking: Shploing!! Mango S'mores, Omnipollo IPA brewed with marshmallows, graham crackers, salt and lactose sugar with mangos and vanilla added - Mango S'mores. Fatamorgana, Omnipollo Drawing inspiration from the fidelity of a saison — rustic, alluringly cloudy and crisp — this imperial IPA was brewed using oats and wheat. Dry-hopped twice and completely untouched post fermentation to preserve aroma and flavor. **Sarah is Drinking: CitrusSinensis Pale Ale, Lagunitas BrewingThe man bent over his guitar, a shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, 'You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are.' The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.' And they said then, 'But play, you must, a tune beyond us, yet ourselves, a tune upon the blue guitar of things exactly as they are.' He sighs, I cannot bring a world quite round, although I patch it as I can. I sing a hero's head, large eye and bearded bronze, but not a man, although I patch him as I can and reach through him almost to man. If to serenade almost to man is to miss, by that, things as they are, say it is the serenade of a man that plays a blue guitar..." These, the words of the Conjurer-in-Chief; Wallace Stevens, describe in perfect detail the work of a brewer as he sits to write a new recipe. Perfection is the goal, to fill a desire for a perfect beer. Yet the instrument of his mind and that of the brewhouse and yeast are the fallible tools at hand. And so he patches it as he can. A little hop here, a little citrus there, a yeast to marry the two, the worty substrate of reality calling the key and time signature. The beer that comes will be the beer we drink, the beer whose story we will tell here. The brewer does what he can and imagines a world quite round. Conjurer-in-Chief Stevens concludes; "Exceeding music must take the place of empty heaven and its hymns." What does it all have to do with beer? HOTDpodcast.com T-shirts and things!)