Overwhelmed
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 | Beer
I am overwhelmed. The world is filled with far too many breweries that brew far too many delicious beers that I must try. The number of breweries in BC may be relatively small, but I have yet to even try the small number of beers that BC has to offer. With only 55-65 years of life left in my body I am worried that I simply do not have enough time to accomplish the task of finding the world’s greatest beer.
Assuming that I live to 95 years of age (I have relatively good genetics), I have only 25,550 days left to enjoy one of life’s greatest pleasures – beer. Too many 25,550 may seem like a lot, but considering I will have to spend 49 weeks of every year locked away in an office until I am 65 I just do not have enough time. According to the trusted science of math, I have only 11,400 work-free days where I can travel and enjoy what the beer filled world has to offer. Sure I may have an opportunity to sample all BC’s offering, but the world is a big place – with many breweries. Unless I quit my job and find an investor willing to fund a completely profitless venture that consists primarily of a life long journey in search of the worlds greatest beer, I do not think I will have a chance to fully accomplish my goal of find the world’s greatest beer.
My concerns completely overlook the obvious: finding the greatest food pairing to enjoy alongside the perfect pint. In order to accomplish this I would have no other choice than to consume far more food calories than I could possibly burn. Excess weight gain would quickly become an issue. This weight gain would almost certainly shorten my life span by a good 20 years, which would mean only 18,200 days left to imbibe, and only 4,490 of these days would be work-free days. What am I to do?
I could quit my job, and jog from brewery to brewery becoming some sort of Forest Gump novelty. This far fetched idea may help to solve the obesity issue, and reduce the high cost of owning a vehicle needed to travel to the vast number of breweries located across the globe – air travel of course would be required for European breweries. However, by not working I would have zero income, making purchasing food and drink a challenge, and enjoying food and drink is sort of the whole point.
In the meantime, while I find a solution to life’s greatest problem, I have compiled a list of my favourite beers. It saddens me to say that only an insignificant fraction of the world greatest beers are represented on this list, but I must learn to live with limitations. Check out the favourites page to view my current favorites.
Cheers,
Erik
3 Comments to Overwhelmed
I was just reading Beers of the World and thinking the exact same thing. I planned to write something similar tomorrow.
Obviously Holly and Rachel should find a way to support us while we jog around the world, drinking beer with fine food to match. What other possible solution is there?
ConnorApril 15, 2009
Hey Chris, there’s an episode (assuming you haven’t already seen it) of Dinner Impossible where the host’s challenge is to create a multi course meal for an employee party at a specific brewery. Not only is he to make food pairings for a number of their brews, he is to cook with each brew in the dish as well. You should check it out. Your food pairing comment reminded me of this.
Rachel’s brother Erik wrote the above post; I just set my Facebook status to pickup all new posts from our blog. But yes, I have seen the Dinner Impossible where Robert Irvine cooks with and pairs Michelob beers. I recall being very hungry watching that episode.
April 14, 2009