just john

I admit it, I've been drinking German beer. I can't seem to help it.

Bill and I have a med cruise in the next couple of weeks and I'd like to be just a bit leaner for it, been lifting heavy and eating, which means scrubbing off something like two pounds. All I have to do is stop drinking the beer.

"Stop drinking the beer" is so simple to say but not so easy to do over here. You see, Germany makes the best beer in the entire universe. So good, so delicious, so perfect. It make the entire range of swill marketed by Anheiser-Busch taste like dirty pond water by comparison. A two week trip to Germany takes about six weeks of recovery time to re-adapt to American beer. Two years may make the preference a permanent condition.

I'm only drinking one a day and I only keep one in the fridge at a time, but I'm very rigorous about "starting a new one" cooling as soon as I pull the existing cold one. The remains of a case are still in the kitchen - just about enough to last until I go on vacation.