What’s on Tap?

I had a great time last Saturday in Prince Edward County. Where else can you just move about and every kilometre or so have a taste of some county brewed beverage? 

Garage Time Brewing Company is one such place. Literally in the garage of a rather normal looking bungalow, the specialty here is making beers taste like other drinks. So, I sampled beers that tasted like a Caesar, a margarita and a berry sour. 

This jaunt was a delightful adventure in taste and shared with friends – a great memory – but I’m not sure about the beverages themselves. I was confused as to why the beer needed to taste like something else. Why not just taste like some kind of craft beer with a more beer-like twist and leave the Caesar delight to, well, a Caesar? 

And then I took a break from contemplating alcohol and thought about how we all do this from time to time – we admire someone else or feel that some other quality is superior, and we hide our own strengths and stories in a layer of actions, behaviours and roles that we think will put us in better stead with those around us.

We all do this from time to time, read the room and decide plain beer is not going to do. So we better talk about our busy work lives and workplace; just talking about what we are interested in or how we fit in our community is too plain or risky.  Brene Brown says it well, we “hustle for our worthiness” when we do not just lean into what our story, skills, life experiences and core beliefs that create in their magical mix who we are.