check out #5

check out this upcoming event for michael jackson, the beer hunter.

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michael jackson, you bastard, the beer hunter. he literally wrote the book on modern ale/beer styles. he also, in later years, reviewed a lot of single malt scotch whiskey, and that is also commendable. but he will be known to the ages as a beer expert.

mr. jackson's beer book, with its descriptions of various styles of ale, became kind of a blue-print for many home- and micro-brewers. he is probably the single biggest reason why beer lovers have it as good as they do right now. he's at least partially responsible for there being such an amazing diversity of high-quality beers available today, also for the fact that i have glassware in my household designed specifically for beer. read more about the man in hisa wikipedia entry.

mr. jackson died at the end of last month, and as detailed in the first link i posted, a world-wide toast for michael is being planned, for the end of this month.