Admin announcement and disclaimer

Excuse me for a quick break from the usual posts I make here. I’m excited to announce that I’ve recently taken a full-time job in in the beverage alcohol industry — I’m now the distiller at Richland Distilling Company’s second distillery in Brunswick, Georgia. I really couldn’t be happier, this is a great job with a great company in a fantastic small seaside town.

I’ll be posting here as usual, and you can also expect my Instagram and Facebook posts to continue as well. I do want to make it clear that my posts here are entirely mine. I’m not representing Richland Distilling Company at all here, they’re not reviewing or reading my posts, and nothing I say here should be credited to or blamed on them.

I do hope to provide some additional information about the production process here and on my social media accounts as time goes on. This would be done with the intention of sharing information and helping others and not as brand promotion. This would certainly be a grey area between the “nothing here represents the company” and “here’s what I’m doing at the company” ends of the spectrum, and I’ll need to figure out how that works when the time comes. But for the near term it’s business as usual here – just a rum and spirits fan posting news and things of interest to share with the community.

If you’re traveling through coastal Georgia, come by and visit me at the distillery! We’re right off I-95.

Hello world! (Or, how I learned to stop bikeshedding and just start writing!)

Bikes in a shed
Wester, CC BY-SA 2.0 BE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/be/deed.en, via Wikimedia Commons

Update: I’ve moved this blog to a new host, as the configuration on the previous one became too much of a burden. You’ll see me monkeying around with themes and designs over the next few days as I try to settle on something simple that I like and that will let the site grow painlessly.

This blog has been sitting here (well, actually under a different domain) for years and years. I’ve never really gotten around to doing much with it because I was bikeshedding over stupid things — what should I call it? What theme should I use? Should I make all about one thing or make it a broader blog about lots of stuff I’m interested in?

Yesterday I finally decided – I’m going to just write. I’ll focus this on adult beverages, so it’ll be all about booze geekery and what I’m learning. Eventually I’ll figure out how I want it to look and hopefully come up with a better title and theme, but for now I really just need to start writing and sort out the other stuff later. So don’t be surprised if the look and feel of this site changes from day to day, hopefully all of those changes will be for the better.

I first thought I’d set a goal to post something every day, but I know I don’t have time to do that right now. I could slap something up here every day, but the quality level wouldn’t be what it should be. So for now I’m going to try for one thing every week as a minimum.

Hello world! If you’re reading this, bear with me. I’m happy to hear comments and suggestions so please feel free to let me know what you think!