Perhaps the keel and rudder of this venture has been cinema - hotel cinema in all its grandolinquent charms of charged dialogue and all that comes with it, the laughs, the cries (of joy and pain), and all the rest - but, and let's be honest about it, it is often the beer that can fuel the exchange, the fruitful digression, the equating of Brando with the Turner Thesis and rhuemy expressions of awe for Godard. For this reason we must now find ourselves drawn into the fight for the future of the mankind as global warming has wreaked havoc on the acid balance of the delicate Saaz hops, the subtle "compound that produces the delicate, bitter taste of pilsners." According to the report by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, as reported in the New Scientist, it may begin here and with those delightful Czech beers where the acid balances and the flavors are indeed quite so delicate, it will spread to other beers by way of their ingredients as well. This is something we should fight, something we should stand in arms about, something that should be stopped immediately. How can we stand idly by and allow the slow (though accelerating) destruction of one of the world's finest beers. Something must be done!
Oh, and Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland by request of US authorities. I understand for what and even why, and it is with a bit of a cringe that I admit my ambivalence regarding such. The same does not hold, however, for the need to protect the hops!
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