Well, at least I did have a beer today - a Sacket's Harbor IPA at the brewpub with lunch. I was at a thinking session so I won't get into it but suffice it to say that Sackets Harbor Brewing Co. on a warm spring day is one of the nicest spots to have a beer I have ever come across.

But the weird thing was that I came back across the border with not one bottle in the van. Mad? No, I am just planning to spend Victoria Day Monday in New York State's 48th senatorial district inspecting the Crown's former territories and I expect to hit Oswego's C's Farm Market with gusto. I did stare at a six pack of Sierra Nevada IPA for $9.49 at the gas station just before I crossed back across the border but I really have a lot of beer from the recent trip to Quebec as well as kind travelers to Michigan and Wisconsin. Do I need more?

I don't know what is weirder - coming back from the USA with no beer or what Greg Koch wrote in the comments on Wednesday. But what is weirder is that my post about "Hooray for Everything" rates #5 on Google right now for "American Craft Beer Week" so I suppose some pip squeek like me being less than wholehearted about one's PR campaign might be the cause of some unhappiness - though others seem to have the same questions. But these things pass - Google rankings, PR campaigns, internet squabbles. Greg makes very good beer and that is the main thing.

I don't know if I could sustain a "My Week in Beer Series" - I live in such a bubble and don't get out much. What would it be like to live like Knut who nips south to Rome's Football Pub, where a bar stool calls for me, when the slightest whim moves him. What would it be like to be Jeff, who runs the other greatest pub in Europe - grabbing a cask, conditioning it brilliantly and making a living from it. Such dreams. Jay still has the news, Stan is still on the trip and Lew has the blues. Such lives.

Me, I have a 3 Monts, a favorite pale ale, and spend Friday night watching Doctor Who with the kids. Beer in the rec room. A great end to the week.