Labas!

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.

• I am a representative for Select Wines, Inc., a wholesaler of wine and beer in northern Virginia. My wine portfolio features 'new world' and 'old world' wines, with an emphasis on France, Italy, Austria, and sustainable 'New World' wines. My beer portfolio includes beers from several American East Coast craft breweries and other imported beers.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• I conduct beer trainings, beer tastings, beer and food pairings (with an emphasis on cheese), and beer seminars. Contact me for bookings and information.
  
  
• Beer (and wine) may be my profession, but cask ale —the beauty of beer at its freshest— is my mission.
  
  
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My 'Good Fermentable' Events

• When in the month view (month tab at upper right of frame), click on a particular date to see details.
• To switch to a listing of upcoming events, click on the Agenda tab (upper right).

Where I've Been (for Good Fermentables)

• 11 February 2012: Barleywine Festival
  Mad Fox Brewing Company: Falls Church, VA.


• 31 January 2012 Bootlegger's Beer Dinner
  Smith Commons: Washington, DC. (Atlas District)


• 11 January 2012: Allagash Beer Dinner
  Red Rocks Pizzeria: Alexandria, VA.


• 10 January 2012: Cask Tapping of Heavy Seas' Black Cannon IPA
  northern Virginia release party
  Public House #7: Falls Church, VA.


• 13 December 2011: Abita Brewery Beer Dinner
  Del Ray Pizzeria: Alexandria, VA.




• ARCHIVE

Website

• Much of my writing on beer —cask ale, beer and food, beer reviews and rants, essays, etc.— can be found at my web journal (blog) called Yours For Good Fermentables as well as here on this site.
• I also maintain a 'mini-blog' of sorts, at Twitter, consisting of brief (140 characters) posts.
• For a full directory of www.thomascizauskas.net, refer to the top or bottom of this page.

Never Forget

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.

There is no cost, except hope for a cure.