Author Archives: jefwhi3

It’s been a while since I’ve picked up the pen! It’s embarrassing, actually, since I was very graciously handed the title of Best Blog in 2020 by Chris Mason (a good man indeed!) and my dear friend Mano (a bitter, bitter man) and possibly a handful of old-schools around the globe (the greatest and mostContinue reading “Winter Derby”

Hello, friends! And welcome to another post from Questfortheshark.com. I am your blogger, Jeff White, and I’ve got a sweet little post for you today. As a few dozen or so of you know, my good friend Mano recently released episode 134 of All Tings Considered which featured Team Sped members Ben Farkas, Jamie ParkeContinue reading “Show Notes”

My Dear Friends, Since a global pandemic has made it virtually impossible to execute this truly epic quest, at least in the short term, I’ve decided to turn this blog into a quest singularly focused on the best beers in the world. You should expect grandiose expositions and reviews, including shipments and samplings not onlyContinue reading “Singlecut Jacknifed Juggernaut 2xDDH IPA”

Here’s yet another tournament report about perhaps the most covered Old School event of the year. Any why not? MobstercoM was the first event of it’s kind in a number of ways and opened up plenty of brewing space whether you were looking to spike hard or spice things up a little. I’ll get rightContinue reading “MobstercoM 2020”

Spoiler alert, my overall record was 5-3 and I had a ton of fun. Out of 8 opponents I had, to my recollection, only played 1 before which was both gassy and improbable. I sleeved up a fun little tier 2.66666 (repeating of course) brew, which I think is my sweet spot when it comesContinue reading “Summer Derby 2020 – Wet Dreams”

Jamie Parke described our beautiful evening together as serendipitous. Through the glory of social media my wife knew that Jamie and his wife were in the Syracuse area and happened to dine at the exact restaurant we had reservations for this evening just the night before. In fact Jamie’s parents live around the corner fromContinue reading “Sig #3 – Serendipity”

I love Scryings and evidently Scryings loves me! With the exception of busting out in the NEOS monthly Scryings event back in March I’m on a serious heater! My most recent run was to a 2nd place finish in an online event hosted by Christian Reinhard over roughly the last 6 weeks. 40 players facedContinue reading “More Scryings”

Adam Lemke is quite handy and frankly no one knows how he got that way, but if you need advice on building a deck (like made of wood behind your house) or opening a swimming pool or just about any other question you think he’d have no business knowing anything about then Lemke’s your guy.Continue reading “Signature #2”

I’m pretty sure I never thought about using the word ‘commencement’ in an English sentence even when I was graduating high school and college, so it never occurred to me that the word actually had a meaning other than signifying a graduation celebration. Strange that about a week ago as I was daydreaming about thisContinue reading “Commencement”

A very good man by the name of Michael James Heup (MJH) was the TO and content creator for the recently completed Premodern Spring Fling. Over the course of about 1.5 months MJH corralled around 64 mages, first organizing batches by time zone for convenience of scheduling, then by record after the first 4 roundsContinue reading “Premodern Spring Fling 2020”