Mike Gray Blog: Beer, Barbecue, Catholicism, and Other Interests

  • My Experience with Amy Barrett

    My Experience with Amy Barrett

    Many of my friends and family have asked my thoughts about Amy Coney Barrett since her name started being circulated as the next Supreme Court justice because I had her as a professor at Notre Dame Law School. While others are much more qualified to give their inside impression of her (such as NDLS professors…

  • Brewing a Bell’s Oberon-Style American Wheat Beer with Cultured Yeast from Bottles

    Brewing a Bell’s Oberon-Style American Wheat Beer with Cultured Yeast from Bottles

    To finish off the summer, I decided to brew an American wheat beer in the style of Bell’s Oberon. Oberon is one of my all-time favorite beers. It is cloudy, with a slight tartness, finished off by a respectable hop bitterness. Oberon, and American wheat beers in general, are beers associated with summer. They are…

  • How Best to Raise a Human

    How Best to Raise a Human

    Raising kids is hard work. For all the smiles, laughs, and happy times, there are quite a few tantrums, tears, and confrontations. As a parent, I want my kids to succeed and be happy and healthy independent adults someday. It is often hard to picture the happy and independent adult scenario when a little one…

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