My favorite home­brew­ing book.

October’s been going quite well thus far. Last Sun­day while loi­ter­ing in Barnes & Noble I found my book (and imme­di­ately improved its place­ment). Does it’s look good? You can order the Brewer’s Appren­tice here.

I also just got word from the IACP—the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Culi­nary Pro­fes­sion­als, not the Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­a­tion of Chiefs of Police—that my pro­posed ses­sion on barrel-aged beer was approved. At their annual con­fer­ence, I’ll be lead­ing a 90-minute class with the Brook­lyn Brewery’s Brew­mas­ter, Gar­rett Oliver. Garrett’s gen­er­ous enough to dig into the brewery’s bar­rel room to serve up some never-released good­ies. It’s going to be fun. And it’s going to be f’ing delicious.

Back at Bicycling.com, I also got tapped for a radio inter­view with Hine­sight on the Min­neapo­lis CBS sta­tion, WCCO. We had a pleas­ant lit­tle chat about fall rides, Surly Bikes, and win­ter com­mut­ing. You can take a lis­ten here.