Here it is. Jim referred to it as Double Dragon, but its name is simple and elegant and tells a new story. May I introduce to you Beer Barrel Bourbon. This is the latest creation from New Holland Artisan Spirits, and I’d like to emphasize the “Artisan”. Jim already described the bourbon in his post, and I [...]
If you live under a rock, then I have some news for you: American Craft Beer Week started on Monday! It’s week full of special craft beer events across the nation, unless you live in New Jersey, perhaps the lamest craft beer state in America. Sure, we get some pretty awesome beers here, but the [...]
What can be harder than going from Home Brewing to starting your own brewery? Doing it in San Francisco! But that is exactly what Jamil Zainasheff has done as the founder of Heretic Brewing in Pittsburg, CA, which is actually about 25 miles east of San Francisco, but still within the greater San Francisco Metro [...]
I know it is HARD to believe, but BrewDog is in the middle of a Media Kerfuffle. I know…what are the odds…right? Well to set it up properly, BrewDog has been doing some pretty wonderful things to change the beer culture in their native Scotland. They have introduced the Brew Pub in a totally unique and [...]
If science has taught us anything, it’s that everything is better when it’s wrapped in bacon. I won’t support this assertion with examples, because we all know it’s true. The folks over at New Holland Artisan Spirits have been fooling around with whiskey for a while now, and the results have been very good. But [...]
What is old is new again. Truer words were never spoken where Churchkey Can Co. brewing is concerned. The other night I went to Brewforia and my buddy Rick had picked these up on a recent trip through Washington. The concept is simple and as old as metal packaging itself. Put a liquid in a [...]
Charlie Papazian wrote an interesting article for the Examiner .com a couple of days ago asking people what the best beer city is for 2012. This got my head spinning as there are so many great beer cities out there as is evident from the map above (I know its a state map, but play along). [...]
Uinta Brewing had their 19th anniversary this year. In celebration of this momentous occasion they brewed Birthday Suit a slightly sour ale brewed with cherries. Now you’re talking my language when you say sour ale and cherries together. Throw that sucker in a barrel for a little while, and I’m in heaven…or so I thought. [...]
This was one of the best beers I’ve had from Epic Brewing. I’ve had a few others, and was less than impressed, but they have completely redeemed themselves with their Exponential Series Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout. This was a beautiful beer. It poured a thick inky black with a relatively thin and lightly colored [...]
Believe it or not, Jim and I do take this blog pretty seriously. We really enjoy ourselves here, but we also have to put up new and semi interesting things for you to read in order to get the conversation we love going. This week the wheels have fallen off of the blog, and it [...]
Jim and I have talked before about our early childhood experiences with our Dad. Dad was a Pabst Blue Ribbon drinker through and through. If he had beer it was PBR. It wasn’t until the company started to struggle and PBR became a little more scarce on the grocery shelves that he began to branch [...]
The other night my son came over and wanted to smoke a cigar, and split a beer with me. This is not an unusual event, as Dad is an endless supply of beer and tobacco, or so they think. But there was a difference. Usually I have my cellar beers, and my “available” beers. This [...]
Green Flash came to Idaho, and as quickly as they got here, they were gone… in a flash…could’a been green. Here is the story. It starts with a new distributor in Boise. This new distributor who shall remain nameless, wasn’t fully aware of the legal issues around his profession. See I guess he thought he [...]
This was the third ungettables gathering put on by our buddy Chad of @BeerPoet fame on Twitter. It was a great line up of beer while pedestrian for some, for us out west in the wilds of Idaho, these represent some of the hardest beers to get in our little corner of the intermountain west. [...]
UPDATE: It turns out those “experts” we hired are the same people who came up with the idea for Bud Light Platinum – stoopid experts! So we’ve fired them and reset the site to its former glory. Sorry folks, there’ll be no Panty Hamsters here! ________________________ You may notice the blog looks a little different [...]
