Among my interests, one which holds my profound attention is beer.
I might say that I have a love affair with beer: not simply with its flavors —as delicious, complex, and varied as they may be— but with its history, science, lore, and evolving creation.
As a man or woman cannot live on beer alone —although some may try— I do post on other topics.
Thomas Cizauskas (r) interviewed by Michael Kuykendall of the East Coast Beer Cast.
About Me
I am a representative for Select Wines, Ltd., a wholesaler of wine and beer in northern Virginia. I sell to restaurants and shops.
My wine portfolio features 'new world' and 'old world' wines, with a strong emphasis on France and Austria. My beer portfolio includes several American East Coast craft breweries and small brewery imports.
In the beer trade since the early 1990s, I have been a brewer, a brewery manager, a brewpub owner, a beer and wine salesman, a restaurant manager, and a brewery consultant.
Beer (and wine) may be my profession, but cask ale —the beauty of beer at its freshest— is my mission.
Much of my writing on beer —cask ale, beer and food, beer reviews and rants, essays, etc.— can be found at my blog Yours For Good Fermentables and here on this site at My Beer Stuff.
In the early 20th century, both my father's and my mother's families emigrated from Lithuania. Alone among his five siblings, my father, Albert Cizauskas, retained his given surname. (At the top of this page, "Labas" is Lithuanian for "hello.")
Throughout his life, he remained an appreciator of good books - the words in them and the binders that hold them. Consider contributing to a library of your choice.
At the end of his life, he suffered from Parkinson's Disease ...
... as did the late beer and whisky writer Michael Jackson, who died on 30 August 2007.
I've linked my home computer into a worldwide distributed computing effort - called
Folding at Home - run by researchers
at Stanford University to better understand protein folding errors, believed to be a cause of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
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