Dan Ackroyd is more than just an awful/terrific actor, he’s also a distiller of a top shelf vodka called Crystal Head.  It’s the stuff that comes in a cool skull-shaped bottle. Well, Mr. Aykroyd should be bummed today, because some 21,000 bottles have been stolen from a California warehouse.  While the news is bad, his […]

OK, this is my lame attempt to be funny and to do something graphical.  What do you expect from MS Paint!  No photoshop here, and it shows!  Anyway… I picked up a can of Newcastle Brown Ale the other day, specifically because it was in a can.  

Here is a quick interview with Iron Chef Bobby Flay from our buddy Tom Fischer over at http://www.BourbonBlog.com.  Bobby talks about his horses, love of Bourbon Whiskey, and cooking with my favorite beverage.

We had heard earlier this year that TGI Fridays was going to be introducing Craft beer onto its beverage list, well someone must have said this stuff would taste great if you marinated it in beer.  So TGI Fridays is taking the next logical step and cooking with the craft beer. Their new “Better with […]

I just came across the label for Smuttynose Homunculus, a Belgian-style golden ale that’s part of their Big Beer Series.  While this looks like another tasty brew from Smutty, the label gives me major cause for pause. Now before you call me a homophobe (to which I’d reply “is that some kind of record player?”), […]

The folks over at GOOD.is (I have no idea what a “dot is” site is, but it looks like the real deal) have put together an infographic showing the United States of GOOD Beer.  They asked their readers to vote for “the most awesome, best-tasting, sustainably brewed, independently owned, community-oriented craft beer brewed in your […]

…otherwise this isn’t so funny.  But as it is, there’s something mesmerizing about watching her fall into the surf again and again.  It’s 3 minutes long, and I watched every second.

The beer bike is a glorious invention, one that brings together two things that many craft beer geeks love; cold brews and pedal-powered vehicles.   The only way this thing could be any better is if it helped you grow a brewer’s beard as well.  That would be the beer geek hat trick! 

This is a hilarious new ad campaign from the folks at Breckenridge brewery.  In total there are 4 different 15 second spots, each poking fun at a big boy advertisement.  It is so easy, but it is so funny in its simplicity and how it exposes the big boys for all their stupid advertising shenanigans. […]

I just read our site without being logged into WordPress and saw a Groupon ad. WTF?!  Can anyone tell me how longs these ads have been here?  Are they bothersome?  We had no idea they were there! . .

It’s been a while since I’ve done a straight up beer review but yesterday I had a beer that affected me in many ways.  Sierra Nevada in this part of the world (Idaho) is like the west’s version of Samuel Adams.  Good, solid beers, reasonably priced and a good reserve series.  I had seen the […]

A recent study from AlixPartners shows that the next year is going to be a good one for most drink makers – unless you’re a macro brewer. The study polled 1,000 people in early February, asking if they expected to spend more or less on certain kinds of beverages, from sports drinks to the heavy […]

Now I know that we are a specialty blog where we review and discuss Beer and Whiskey.  I also know that if Whiskey had a polar opposite it would be Tequila.  However two things happened for me to break with convention and post this slight review of Espolon Tequila.  First yesterday was Cinco de Mayo […]

If pop culture has taught us anything, it’s that pretty people always win and the zombie apocalypse is inevitable.  The rules of zombie behavior have been well established (most recently by AMC’s The Walking Dead) and survival guides are everywhere. But what these guides fail to mention is how to survive in style, most notably, […]

I never really understood all the hoopla ( that’s right, I said hoopla) around the Kentucky Derby, or just about any horse race for that matter.  You spend all day in the hot sun, drinking Mint Juleps, wearing ridiculous hats (if you’re a woman) and waiting for the main event that lasts 3 minutes.  (I guess it’s kind […]