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The Benevolence of the Brewer

June 25, 2019July 1, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

An invisible hand guides Adam Smith to the shade of Saint Sixtus Abbey.

The Facticity of the Barrel

March 19, 2019March 26, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / Leave a comment

If the en soi of a Bourbon barrel constrains the pour soi of the beer that is geworfen into it, the culture of a wild beer is the nothingness—the incipient, the contingent—that creates a space for the transcendence of foeder-facticity.

Can We Read a Beer in the Same Way We Read a Book?

October 23, 2018October 3, 2019 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

Beers have a discursive role in our cultural system. Let’s read them with all of our critical faculties.

Born-Again Beer

April 1, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 2 Comments

On Easter Sunday we ask, does beer really prove that God loves us and wants us to be happy, or reveal us to be of the Devil's party without knowing it?

Zythological Investigations

March 12, 2018November 5, 2018 / pursuitofabbeyness / 1 Comment

When Young Ludwig and Old Ludwig step into the pub, a choice of six IPAs leads to an era-defining insight into the nature of language.

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