I just posted an unread book inventory for my apartment, so I’m going to follow up with my un-drank alcoholic beverage inventory. Here’s what’s in my booze cabinet (actually two cardboard boxes on the kitchen floor) right now:
BEER
Otter Creek Raspberry Brown Winter Ale
Ipswich Oatmeal Stout
Anchor Christmas Ale
Genesee Cream Ale
Franziskaner Weiss
J W Dundee Pale Ale
WINE
Gascon 2006 Malbec
McManis 2005 Petit Sirah
Gato Negro 2006 Cabernet Shiraz
Alexander Valley 2004 “Sin Zin” Zinfandel
Joel Gott 2005 Zinfandel
Monte Velho 2006 Table Wine
J. Lohr 2004 Paso Robles Merlot
So, it looks like I’m well stocked for a long winter’s night.
But one should never feel too cozy about these things. Recall the parable of the rich man in Luke 12: I will say to my soul, ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
Jim,
I can’t say that I share your enthusiasm for beer–or for that matter fine wines. I don’t drink beer–it tends to make me angry and I end up in a fight with someone over absolutely nothing. No sense to that. (I wonder is that the reason there are so many fights in bars? Beer can make people angry, and they get into fights over nothing?)
As to fine wines–again, I’m hopeless. I guess the enjoyment of the palate is one thing that escapes me. Somehow it all seems way too much ado about eating/drinking. I realize this puts me in the class of people who lack some fine appreciation, but I am the way I am.
But I will once in a while enjoy a glass of some kind of sweet wine. I can hear the ughhhhh! But I have a tendency towards the sweet in food too. I’m hopeless; but I’m not going to change. (And no I’m not diabetic or even pre-diabetic.)
You certainly have hit the nail on the head, though, with your quote from Luke: Who knows if what we think we have “stored up”, actually turns out to be something we will enjoy. I think of this topic every day. I have my own idiosyncrasies regarding things I like to enjoy. But then I have not even had to get to death when I have begun to realize that “things” all turn out in the end to have much less value than we once thought–no matter what they are.
MCS
Comment by Anonymous — December 21, 2007 @ 4:14 pm
Jim,
I can’t say that I share your enthusiasm for beer–or for that matter fine wines. I don’t drink beer–it tends to make me angry and I end up in a fight with someone over absolutely nothing. No sense to that. (I wonder is that the reason there are so many fights in bars? Beer can make people angry, and they get into fights over nothing?)
As to fine wines–again, I’m hopeless. I guess the enjoyment of the palate is one thing that escapes me. Somehow it all seems way too much ado about eating/drinking. I realize this puts me in the class of people who lack some fine appreciation, but I am the way I am.
But I will once in a while enjoy a glass of some kind of sweet wine. I can hear the ughhhhh! But I have a tendency towards the sweet in food too. I’m hopeless; but I’m not going to change. (And no I’m not diabetic or even pre-diabetic.)
You certainly have hit the nail on the head, though, with your quote from Luke: Who knows if what we think we have “stored up”, actually turns out to be something we will enjoy. I think of this topic every day. I have my own idiosyncrasies regarding things I like to enjoy. But then I have not even had to get to death when I have begun to realize that “things” all turn out in the end to have much less value than we once thought–no matter what they are.
MCS
Comment by Anonymous — December 21, 2007 @ 4:14 pm