A little over a year ago we moved up to central Pennsylvania. I sent an email out to friends and family telling them about the move. One friend, Larry, did not respond. I didn't think much of it at the time, as he was a very busy writer and occasionally was (perhaps ironically) not available for written communication.
The other day I realized it that it had been a year since that last email. I reached out to see how he was doing and found out that he had died a couple weeks prior to the email I sent before the move.
You may be asking 'why is this on your brog?' Larry is directly responsible for my homebrewing efforts. As a wedding gift (that's a story for a different day), he sent me my first homebrewing setup. I remember his positive (and possibly overly kind) words about my first brew, Perkele Pilsener. Over the past six and a half years, a lot of that initial equipment is gone (read: I broke most of the glass pieces). But the brewing spirit he awoke in me remains. So, here's me raising a glass to the man truly responsible for Snyderson Brewhus: Larry Offner Jr., a great man who went on to his final reward sooner than expected.
