Kristyn Lier

I love beer especially, but I also love anything fermented and/or distilled with flavor. One could say that I am a flavorholic. I’ll taste pretty much anything and everything at least once and pretty much like anything and everything I taste no matter how unique, unusual, or different. All I ask for is a little TLC, an irreverent disregard for corporate mediocrity, and a passion for local. I’ve completed the first level with the Cicerone Certification Program – Certified Beer Server – with plans for Certified Cicerone and completed one course at Siebel (Professional Beer Tasting & Styles) with plans for many many more. My love for beer, writing, pictures, food, and liquid libations has culminated in this: my ever evolving blog of beery bliss, distilled discoveries, and cocktail geekery.

As of so far, my Beer Ambassador page will highlight 4 different sections or, as I like to think of them, topics of passion. To tantalize you into browsing my various topics of passion, a bit of a summary is due. Each section when highlighted will give you a  brief summary but there is more to be said. After all, this is my raison d’etre. Each and every single written word and sentence is my own personal inspiration and to not be plagiarized or copied or bastardized without my express permission. If I happen to humbly borrow another’s word in my own written reliving, then they will be properly credited and italicized. I put my heart and soul into my writing, reliving every sight, sound, smell, taste, and moment with but one wish – in reading my various adventures, you too will find yourself experiencing every sight, sound, smell, taste, and moment as if’ it were your own.

To help your visceral tour down my memory lane, a brief breakdown of the aforementioned Topics of Passion:

• Beer Events - the visceral temptation of numerous up & coming beervents from within the sunny state of Florida and from wherever else my craving for social lubrication through beer, food, friends, and surprising places is planned, plotted, and indubitably marked on the calendar. Find the event which calls your name, whispering sweet nothings of temptation in your blushing ear, mark your calendar, and maybe I’ll see you there. Cheers!
• Beer Reviews - to date I have tasted over 1500 beers with no future plans of stopping. Ever. This number only includes the number of new beers (ie: untasted) noted and stored for future posterity. What you my lucky Beer Ambassador peeps will find on this specific page represents that which I have tasted and noted since December 2011. All past beer reviews can be found in sequential order on my old blog site and my even older livejournal site. If you have a specific curiosity and don’t feel like reading through 1000+ beer reviews, you may email me and I will try to answer your beerquest as best as I can.
• Beerflections - much like my beer reviews, what you will find on this page represents only an itsy bitsy teensy weensy fraction of the events, dinners, travels, musings and more in my five-ish freshman years in the embrace of the wonderful world of craft beer. To try and transfer all of those writings would be not just an insurmountable task but a time-consuming one also, time better spent furthering my participation in more events, dinners, travels, musings, and other beery bastions of entertainment I have yet to discover. Tracing my Beerflections from July 2011 onward, anything older can be found on my old blog site and, just as with my beer reviews, any specific curiosities can be directed to me via email.
• Cocktail Dreams - Home-made infusions, a humble tribute to Classic Cocktail history via Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, and other other mixological discoveries of amateur cocktail geekery can be found within. Punches, Slings, Fizzes, ‘Tinis, Bitters, Sangarees, Smashes, Julips, Flips, Cobblers…each cocktail a story, each story a cocktail. Add a splash of irreverence for good measure and enjoy.
• Delightful Drams – in my journeys through Beer Ambassadorialism it become rapidly apparent to me that a burgundian’s appreciation for the sensoral pleasures in life would not, could not, and should not be limited to just the wide world of beer no matter how wonderful. Much like my philosophy on beer (If you brew it, I will drink it) so too my philosophy on all the distilled delights near and far. Scotch, whisk(e)y, grappa, schnapps, tequila, aquavit, absinthe, and more… If you distill it, I will drink it.
• Sake Reviews – it was in the middle of a sushi/sashimi binge that I discovered that most libatious of Japanese beverages, sake. As I patroned various sushi establishments of vaunted standings, the more I was exposed not just to sake but to good sake of which the majority are enjoyed anywhere from room temperature to cold. Typically the hot sake served at most sushi establishments is nothing I would want to drink, though it might do well at cleaning the kitchen pipes at home. There are many classes and catagories to sake and instead of delving deep into their nuances, I would like to direct my fellow peeps and peepettes to the extremely organized and accurate resource on sake available here. In the meantime, read, share, and savor your own journey along the sake trail.