TRAVELS WITH BARLEY is a travelogue/memoir about... what else?... beer! Based around an imaginary manifestation Ken Wells makes up himself — the River of Beer — Wells traverses across the country in his quest to find The Perfect Beer Joint. During the course of his adventure, he also provides bac...
“Intellectual Brew,” the invite proclaimed, but the subtext was more scientific than intellectual. People were coming to speak at this event from places like Harvard, and the topic was “beer and health.”If this sounded like an oxymoron, I was assured it wasn’t. In fact, based on a little pre-repo...