Beer Glass Guide

I got a set of different types of beer glasses for my birthday and I had to look up what they are all for. Here are some handy guides that I found.





And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini)



This guy just keeps getting better and better every book! I read this on a business trip during the flights and couldn't put it down. The detailed description of the characters, the jumping around timelines and points of view, were great literary devices. He has always been an amazing storyteller, and now he is becoming an amazing writer as well.

Scotch Tasting

I went Scotch tasting with some folks from work yesterday and it was a lot of fun. Here is my ranking of the tastings:

1. Glen Fiddich (21yo, highland, rum cask finished) Vanilla, Toffee, Fig
2. Glen Livet (21yo, highland, ) Great aroma, very woody
3. Macallan (12yo, highland, Spanish Oak Sherry Cask) Fruit,Toffee, Vanilla
4. Dalmore (12yo, highland, bourbon, sherry) smooth, sweet, strong
5. Aborlour (12yo, highland-speyside, double cask) Cask-strength, Crisp, citrus, rich, spicy, sweet, strong, great smells
6. Glen Morangie (12yo, highland, Sherry Cask), smoothish, spicy, vanilla, citrus
7. Oban (14yo, highland) burn, little aroma, smoky, seaweed, not peaty, halfway between Highland/Islay
8. LaFroag (10yo, Islay), moldy, stale, campfire

Highland (Speyside, Island), Lowland, Campbeltown, Islay

Leather Luggage Tag

My mom always has homemade leather luggage tags and they always disappear. She mentioned this to me the other day, so I thought I would make her a luggage tag for Christmas that would hopefully last longer. I added a buckle to the strap, so it would hopefully not fall of and I personalized it by adding her initials so that it would hopefully not get stolen.

Theologians' Non-Christian Book Recommendations

Theologians on the Gospel Coalition website came up with a list of books that every Christian should read. While these books have nothing to do with Christianity, they are books that educated people who like to read a lot recommended:

Peace Like a River
-Leif Enger

The Game of Kings
-Dorothy Dunnett

The Thanatos Syndrome
-Walker Percy

-Murial Spark

Till We Have Faces
-C.S. Lewis

Descent into Hell
-Charles Williams

Moby Dick
-Herman Melville

As I Lay Dying
-William Faulkner

Short Stories
-Langston Hughes

Huckleberry Finn
-Mark Twain

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling
-Henry Fielding

Cry, the Beloved Country
-Alan Paton

The Chosen
-Chaim Potok

Crime and Punishment
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

Jayber Crow
-Wendell Berry

The Road
-Cormac McCarthy

Great Expectations
Hard Times
-Charles Dickens

The Brothers K
-David James Duncan

A Soldier of the Great War
-Mark Helprin

-Patrick O'Brien