There’s nothing more wholesomely all-American than milk.  You put it on your cereal, you put it in your coffee, you even cook with it.  According to data from the Beverage Marketing Corporation, the average American consumed a whopping 20.4 gallons of cow juice last year.  That’s more than distilled spirits, wine, energy drinks, tea and […]

Yesterday was a hectic day.  It began well enough, sleeping in until about 9 am (a real luxury in my house), with morning coffee and the paper, and some good conversation with my wife.  That afternoon however was where it all began to fall apart.  See lately my wife has been into the whole coupon […]

As you can see, we’ve just overhauled the look and some of the functionality of the site.  Some of you may recall that we’ve been looking for a way to make the site content more “scannable” than our old layout allowed, but we were having trouble finding the right WordPress theme.  Well thanks to a […]

This was disappointing.  I cracked open a Rogue John John on Friday evening, only to be greeted by a thin and sour tasting beer. I’ve had it before and don’t remember it being a sour (it’s Rogue Dead Guy Ale aged in Rogue Dead Guy whiskey barrels), so I think there might be a quality […]

I guess some folks just HAVE to be first.  In the case of Lanny Wagner, that means paying roughly 300 times the going rate for a can of beer. And I thought they gouged you at the ballpark!

Rogue Brewery has taken the Terroir movement to heart, growing all their ingredients within the state where the reside, and making some pretty good beer with it at the same time.  Truth is this is the ONLY way Terroir works.  If you get apples grown in your state but they are small and come with […]

I’ll admit, I’m probably the easiest person to assassinate in America.  Why?  Because I’m a creature of habit. Want to shoot me as I drive by?  Be at the bottom of Skyline Drive at 8:37 on any weekday morning.  Want to poison me?  Inject the tubs of Original flavor Tribe Hummus with Strychnine at the […]

With the news of Victory Brewing closing their doors to behind the scenes brewery tours, it got me to thinking about the tours I’ve been on.  Now I’m one of the lucky people that have been able to actually tour Victory Brewing, so take what I say with however big a grain of salt you […]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released their 2010 Time Use Survey and it looks as if the nation’s employment landscape is changing the way we live.  Time.com’s Brad Tuttle is all over it. First the obvious news – Americans are spending more time than ever watching TV (2.1 hours per day, up 5.4 minutes […]

If you ever wanted to peek behind the curtain at Victory Brewing to see how they make their delicious beer, you better get your butt to Downingtown pronto.  As of July 4th, Victory will no longer be conducting brewery tours, and if you’re one of the folks who loves their beers, it’s all your fault!  

This one has been floating around the interwebs for a while now, but I thought I would share it for those of you who might not have seen it before.  It clearly demonstrates how beer is made so awesome!

Click the pic to watch the video at MLB.com Over the years, I’ve removed many foreign objects from my beer.  A few weeks ago it was a decomposed leaf, and this past weekend it was a gnat that decided to take a dip in my Prima Pils.  But Gerry Burke is a league of his […]

In this case a picture is worth a thousand words.  I want to first of all say I drank this beer, it was good.  I’ve had better saisons that I liked a lot more, but this was good.  For me it hit right in the middle of the great beer/bad beer continuum.   It was drinkable. […]

Remember when you were a kid and your Mom or Dad would say, “Lets go for Ice Cream!”  The instant release of endorphins as you loaded into the family truckster for that trip to Baskin Robbins, or DQ, or where ever.  Truth is it didn’t matter where you went for the ice cream, the Ice […]

Well it is getting to be that time of year again.  Time to dust off the old liver and really give it a go at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF).  This will be Jim and I’s second trip to Denver for the event, and I am looking forward to it more this year than […]