Beer Mystic Burps: blog at Sensitive Skin. A selection: #18: The Long Windy Road to a Closed Bar, #19: Beer in Times of Distillation: On Karen Garthe, #20: Ron Kolm: No Longer Chugging Rank Cologne...
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Beer Mystic Sticker, still available for an exorbitant price
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Beer is 2 Subways Stops Away from Mysticism: Sharon Mesmer interviews bart plantenga about Beer Mystic in the Brooklyn Rail, 2011.
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Beer Mystic interview with Karen the Small Press Librarian, author-bookseller, Pittsburgh 2011.
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Beer Mystic Blurbs “Top-fermented, with a good nose, an acrid middle, a dry finish — bubbly and acidulous in reserved measure — and with ambient yeast peculiar to the Lower East Side, the kind that turns concrete to dust. Bart Plantenga is a poet and a prankster as well as a distinguished bathtub brewer. He deserves immediate investigation.” • Luc Sante, Low Life
“All reality is food as the Rig Veda says — your 4 basic food types: caffeine, nicotine, cannabis, alcohol — the last divides into wine and beer. Hence (Q.E.D.) Plantenga covers one eighth of total reality in this book — including a metaphysics of beer & a politics of beer -- the anarcho-mysticism of beer. Profoundly thirsty reading...” • Hakim Bey, Temporary Autonomous Zone
“The Beer Mystic is so goddamn good at the end of the fog. The surreal, political & aesthetic levity talked to me in person. It sent me full speed into the outrageous black hole of Americana. I recommend it unconditionally; a wise, witty, poignant gift of real pleasure...” • Larry McCaffery, Editor, Black Ice Books
"There's a lot of opposition to this kind of writing these days but I think we definitely need violently anti-yuppie literature." • David Applefield, Editor Frank
“I loved psycho-careening through the wreckage with the Beer Mystic, though beer makes me think of Belgium and public toilets.” • Judy Nylon, author / Brian Eno - John Cale collaborator
“Beer has been one of mankind's passions from the dawn of time to the present day. Any book that engages imaginatively with, and extends our understanding of, that relationship is to be warmly welcomed.” • Simon Rae, editor of Drinks, Drinkers & Drinking
"Much of his work I like a lot, especially Beer Mystic..." • Max Blagg, What Love Sees in the Distance
“All reality is food as the Rig Veda says — your 4 basic food types: caffeine, nicotine, cannabis, alcohol — the last divides into wine and beer. Hence (Q.E.D.) Plantenga covers one eighth of total reality in this book — including a metaphysics of beer & a politics of beer -- the anarcho-mysticism of beer. Profoundly thirsty reading...” • Hakim Bey, Temporary Autonomous Zone
“The Beer Mystic is so goddamn good at the end of the fog. The surreal, political & aesthetic levity talked to me in person. It sent me full speed into the outrageous black hole of Americana. I recommend it unconditionally; a wise, witty, poignant gift of real pleasure...” • Larry McCaffery, Editor, Black Ice Books
"There's a lot of opposition to this kind of writing these days but I think we definitely need violently anti-yuppie literature." • David Applefield, Editor Frank
“I loved psycho-careening through the wreckage with the Beer Mystic, though beer makes me think of Belgium and public toilets.” • Judy Nylon, author / Brian Eno - John Cale collaborator
“Beer has been one of mankind's passions from the dawn of time to the present day. Any book that engages imaginatively with, and extends our understanding of, that relationship is to be warmly welcomed.” • Simon Rae, editor of Drinks, Drinkers & Drinking
"Much of his work I like a lot, especially Beer Mystic..." • Max Blagg, What Love Sees in the Distance