I wrote about a previous beer summit involving my auto mechanic and my dentist (the owner of the first, the office manager of the other). We decided it had been far too long, and held another impromptu beer summit on Friday.
These are some pretty cool people that I've come to know through my business network (BNI: Nitro Chapter, if anyone's interested). So when we get together we try to include the topic of running a successful business. I have no formal business training, so anytime I can hang out with successful people is time well spent.
But between lessons, it’s a good thing to imbibe in a well crafted Belgian top fermented Trappist beer– in this case, Chimay Grande Reserve. You can learn a lot at a beer summit: economic theory, trends in Wall Street and Sacramento, developments in employment law. It’s a historic fact that some form of what most people call “beer” has been essential to critical thinking since around 5000 BC. Mesopotamia had beer, Babylon had beer, Thomas Jefferson had beer. In the ancient world, if you went to war without beer, you went alone, because who’s going to fight to the death for some cheapskate who won’t even pay the bar tab?
They’re smart fellows, but they’re not always right. Neither am I for that matter. But the beer element seems to help make that all OK. I’m a little more hawkish on foreign policy. The dentist is little more socialist on medical policies. The mechanic, well, he likes to make his 65 Mustang stand up and take the checkered flag. I can respect that, even if it’s not my way. And if I end up muttering some French phrases describing my second fine Canadian brew, well I think that’s OK too.
At a beer summit, everyone is a brother. I think the world should remember that.
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