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Birth Place / Current Home Town: Detroit / Berkley

Age: I can't remember anymore.

Profession: Music instructor

Years Performing: Over 30

Proficient On What Other Instruments?: I love the bass. I also do guitar gigs.

Hobbies: Astro-physics. Hanging out with my wife.

Last Book Read: Curious George

Last Accomplishment: Filling this out.

Inspirations: James Jamerson, Chuck Rainey, Bob Cranshaw, Mingus, Jaco, Hayden... and all other great players.

Quote: "It's better than it was."

Profile: Left side is best.

Beer: Beer requires these ingredients for brewing: properly prepared cereal grain (usually barley and corn or rice), hops (scientific name Humulus lupulus), pure water, and brewer's yeast. Each ingredient can affect flavor, color, carbonation, alcohol content, and other subtle changes in the beer. Grains are carefully stored and handled to promote highest quality. Hops are a form of cultivated perennial hemp, and the useful portions of the vine, the sticky cones, are developed from the bloom. About 35 pounds (16 kg) of barley malt and 15 pounds (7 kg) of grain are used to make each 31-gallon barrel of beer. Large quantities of pure water are extremely important not only as an ingredient, but for maintaining the cleanliness of the brewing equipment. In beer, water high in lime or iron can interfere with the fermentation process and discolor the final product. Yeasts are fungi, which are microorganisms that reduce sugars to alcohol by fermentation. Some types of brewer's yeast are closely guarded trade secrets.