I am considering two new hobbies.
- Wine collecting
- Brewing beer (perhaps root beer)
Although these are not uncommon hobbies, for me they are exceptional since I only ingest alcohol via cooked food or cough syrup.
I was just given a bottle of wine by my manager. I must say that I am rather interested in learning about the stuff. Great stories can be captured within a bottle of wine. I think that I’ll experience an Amazon moment following this post. One night, while flipping through the channels on the tele with no destination, I stopped upon a documentary about wine. It was either at that moment, after watching A Good Year, or the calamity that came upon the crashing together of these two memory sets that was the start of this desire. A book shall be had.
Beer. Towards the end of my drinking career, I became very interested in beer. Beer spoke to me far more than liquor. The effects being more subtle allows a longer period of evaluation of its qualities before the inebriation took ownership of its host (the drinker). This interest sends me down a different path than the notion of wine collecting. I happen to be a great fan of root beer. I have a Pokémon-esque motive in this arena, I want to try them all. Whenever I taste a new local brew, I become more interested in the pursuit. It calls me like the moon calls a wolf.
I think that I can manage to begin both with little conflict. The wine collection seems to be somewhat passive whereas the beer brewing will be quite an active endeavor.
