(Amazing, people, amazing!)ĭon’t ask me when I will finish it, because I don’t know. In 2023, the Schell/Marti family is still brewing in the same brewhouse on their ridge near the river. There, in 1860, a German immigrant family built a brewhouse. Part Two is set on a terraced, wooded bluff on the right bank of the Minnesota River, on a site loved and worked by centuries of Dakota. Part One is the tale of their encounter with a new wakan/spirit-brandy-and people with pale faces, from the French in the sixteenth century to the Americans in the early nineteenth. The book opens in the 1650s with the people who ruled the valley, and region, for centuries: The Dakota. It thinks about how humans in the Minnesota River valley responded to alcohol over the course of several centuries. The new book is about “alcohol.” As an idea as a bit of human culture. I finally figured out what I’m doing this year, but as always, this stuff takes tiiiiiiiime. To wit: I spend much of my time writing a new book and revising an old one ( In Meat We Trust, currently out of print).Īs to The New Thing (it has no title yet):įor what I will only describe as a painful number of years, I’ve wrestled and bashed and often hated a project that has morphed three times. Which meant I needed to update this site.

It broke my heart-I loved Twitter-but it’s important to stick with what matters and I did not want to empower or enrich the current owner of Twitter.

What prompts this update is my recent departure from Twitter (on December 12, 2022, I deleted an account I’d had for 13 years and ten months.

Ambitious Brew by Maureen Ogle