. I’ll admit that this is a bit obsessive, but our reader Alex got the wheels turning in my head and now they won’t stop. I made a half-joking  comment on the “Heroes get Beer” post that I hoped the beer Obama shared with Dakota Meyers was at least an Imperial Pilsner, and Alex said […]

  There seems to be a growing trend among beer geeks these days.  They are taking their love of the brew to the next level and making it permanent.  No they aren’t marrying their favorite beverages in some cultish ceremony, even worse they are defacing their body to show allegiance to their favorite beverage. There […]

Dakota Meyer sounds like the kind of guy you want having your back. The former Marine will receive the Medal of Honor today at the White House for saving 36 lives during a firefight in the Kunar Province in Afghanistan on September 8, 2009.

I’ve been drinking a lot of Dale’s Pale Ale lately, using it to soothe my gimpy back. Last night I found myself up in the mancave with a can of Dale’s and no glass.  Now, I’m fanatical about using glassware when drinking beer, and have been known to take a bottle out of someone’s hand […]

Well, here we go again.  Jim’s the pretty one. Oh, don’t worry, I’m used to it. Yet another way that New Jersey is better than Idaho, and it is a way that impacts this blog substantially.  Internet speeds!  Jim’s got ’em, and I don’t.  I always knew that his residential speed was better than mine, […]

It seems like you can’t throw a can of Old Chub in Colorado without hitting a beer geek, but an incident in Colorado Springs on Monday shows us just how small the world of craft beer nerditry really is.

  Here you see the implement of torture my dietitian has me consuming in an attempt to get my glucose under control!  Yes, the Galligan brothers come from a long line of diabetics, and having my luck, I’m the one with all the fat and all the sugar in my bloodstream!  Recently it has gone a little […]

Here’s a little too much information for you… …I was having a bathroom break this morning when something entered my “stream” of consciousness.  My back is really bad right now, and I had a few Victory Prima Pils last night to take the edge of the pain.  I chose it because it’s tasty, it isn’t […]

A couple of years ago my wife went on a happy homemaker spree and started making fresh guacamole for me to enjoy while watching football.  Her guacamole is awesome, and it quickly became part of my Sunday ritual – Jets game, pilsners and stouts, and guacamole with Tostitos Gold chips.  Unfortunately, her interest in making […]

There was some discussion last night on Facebook about the Budweiser 9/11 advertisement that aired a couple of times during yesterday’s football games.  I think it is pretty clear that we are no fan of big beer around these parts.  I’d rather drink water than some of the swill that many of the big beer […]

Last night I spent my evening watching Tony Romo do his thing (choke in a big moment) and my Jets do their thing (come up impossibly big with their backs against the wall).  During a break in the action, the same insipid beer commercial played for the umpteenth time – dude, you passed the bar […]

I’m happy to say that we’ve suffered through the lockout, the finger pointing and the posturing and bigtime pro football is back for most of us (sorry Peyton).  Last night’s game between the Packers and Saints was a great start to the season and it even ended the right way, with a victory for the […]

Here’s something you don’t see every day.  An elk in Sweden snacked on one too many fermented apples and found himself hung up in a tree. 

UPDATE 2/1/12: Stranahan’s new Master Distiller Rob Dietrich dropped us a note in the comments below, ensuring us that all is well at Stranahans.  We hope so!  We were so impressed with Rob’s words, that we gave him his own post! There are changes happening at Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey, and I’m afraid we may be […]

Someone was kind enough to post my letter to Brew Dog over on the beer section of Reddit.com.  As I was perusing some of the responses to it, one in particular caught my eye.  It was from a fella in the U.K. who provided a whole new outlook on why Brew Dog keeps pulling these […]