Sveikas!

My surname might be Cizauskas, but my Lithuanian language skills are sorely lacking.

So, when I recently came across a Lithuanian language "bloguose" (blog) devoted to "alus" (beer) that lists Yours For Good Fermentables.com as one of only six "Uzsienyje" beer blog links (that's "English-language"), I enlisted a family "drogas" (friend) for assistance with translation.

Tikras alus - geras alus is the name of the blog. That's "Real Ale - Good Ale".

And the masthead reads: "Alus ne vanduo, kunigs ne piemuo". That's a bit of student doggerel that roughly translates as "Beer is not water; the monks are not fools."

And with photos like this one, it's a great site ... even if I can't read it.

As for me, the blog author says I am an "Amerikos Lietuvis, profesionalus aludaris" (that last word is "beermaker"). I'll take it.

So, to my Lithuanian beer-loving brethren: Sveikas!