Before we explain ourselves to the world wide web, we want you to do something: think back to the very first time you had a beer. Think of where you were, who you were with, why on God’s earth you were drinking a warm Coor’s Light in my friend’s dad’s garage. Step back into those tender shoes -Airwalks, PF Flyers?- and imagine what that exact moment meant to you at that age and in that place.
Are you there? Can you see it? OK, get the hell out of there
quick. We want you now to go waaay back to the LAST beer you had. Again,
picture the setting, think about how you might've paid for it yourself instead of your cool but creepy uncle Ted. Survey your surroundings and try to capture that meaning,
the feeling that was your last beer, even if you haven't finished it yet.
One of the central questions that we are going to try to answer
on this very blog involves what you have so obediently done for us. We want to examine the question- what
happened in between those two beers? What changes our drinking habits? How did
we decide one day that, ‘you know what, dang gummit? I think I’ll try that
fancy lookin’ beer over there… and I’ll only have three instead of thirty!’ We will look at why people drink a certain way in, oh I don’t know, Ukraine as opposed to a
slightly different place like…let’s see, Fort Collins, CO. Like most questions there
is an easy answer, but we are going to look at all of the sweet, syrupy
complexities that come along with the questions. Like how and why do we drink? What
are some of the differences between various people, cultures, and laws
concerning drinking and brewing and why do they occur? What is happening in our bars, pubs,
restaurants, and communities concerning beer and alcohol?
2 Brewths and a Lie consists of two friends who have spent
time drinking, making, and talking about beer and the discussions that go along with that. Our goal is to open our conversation to you, through beer and
drinking topics from the news, so that we can all have discussions together
about one of the most divisive issues in society. We hope that you enjoy our
thoughts, rants, and any other type of communication we decide to slap onto 2
Brewths. This blog isn’t necessarily for beer or alcohol drinkers. It
is intended to spark conversations about the social, cultural, and legal
practice of drinking, no matter what your feelings are towards booze.
So please
join us by responding to our first homework assignment. (OK, this assignment IS for beer drinkers, but we promise they won't all be.) Tell us in the comments
about the first and the last beer that you drank and let us know what happened in
between those two beers. How did you get from the first to the last? What is different about them? Who was around for the first one, and were they still around for that last one? Whether they are the same beer in the same place at roughly the same time of day, or they are completely different for different reasons, thank you for sharing your experiences with us already, because let's face it- you don't even know us yet.
Keep checking in, we have so much more to talk about.
