. . I found the above video over at the Beer section of Reddit.  It shows a looooong line of empty craft beer bottles that were consumed during the Dark Lord Day festivities.  It’s like a junkyard filled with exotic cars, each more tantalizing than the last. I think I need to go to this […]

I love reading Paul Gatza’s blog posts over at the Brewer’s Association, mostly because I’m a bit of a numbers nerd when it comes to craft beer and he’s always sharing stats.  I love following the “story” of what’s happening in the rapidly evolving world of good beer.  It’s like my favorite soap opera. The […]

UPDATE: I give up – I missed the old layout too much.  It’s neater, warmer and the comments sections is far superior.  It’s like coming home! 🙂 As you might have noticed, we’ve updated the layout of the site.  This was done for a couple of reasons.  Number one, we got bored.  It’s fun to […]

The fine folks over at the Brooklyn Brewery obviously have a problem.  Their obsession for beer has led them past the kegs, beyond the bottles and straight for the showers.  That’s right, Brooklyn Brewery now sells beer soap, perfect for making you crave a chocolate stout at 6:30 in the morning. The soap comes in […]

This is a project that Buffalo Trace has been working on for over ten years.  It is intriguing, but at the same time a bit confusing.  This is Called the Buffalo Trace Single Oak Project.  It started with 96 American White Oak trees from the Missouri Ozarks.  The trees were selected for their grains, some tightly grained […]

Thwarted by…his own pants!  Whoda thought a belt could keep you from face planting with 36 of your favorite stolen light lagers?

My buddy Chad (you may know him as @BeerPoet on Twitter) and I have been discussing for some time getting together for lunch and drinking some of our “ungettables”.  For me, I brought a 2007 Pannepot Belgian Quad, and Chad brought a 750ml of Ivan the Terrible, Big Sky Brewing’s barrel aged Stout, the 2010 […]

The news is everywhere – Osama Bin Laden is dead.  And while this won’t have any great effect on how Al-Qaeda operates, it might offer a little closure for folks who lost a loved one on September 11th or in any of the other attacks that have been perpetrated on his behalf.  It might also […]

What is going on? Didn’t any one tell Mother Nature that it is Spring?  The calendar says April?  For God’s sake its almost May!  Isn’t the Saying April showers bring May flowers?  Not April Snow you don’t gotta mow.  Ok, that is enough of a rant.  This was the view from my front porch this morning. […]

Poor Wrecks Bell. As he puts it, he was “just a small time business man, trying to make a bock.” A bock beer that is. And being from the Lone Star State of Texas, he decided to call that beer Star Bock. Where’s the harm in that? According to the U.S. Trademark Office, there was […]

[Click to Enlarge] . . Here’s a very cool infographic developed by Melissa Schmechel from Darlingville Design. It’s part of a Facebook contest that Sixpoint is sponsoring. They have asked designers to develop art around the concept of “Beer is Culture” and what you see above is Melissa’s contribution.  She posted it to our Facebook wall […]

A brewery in New Zealand has created what is being called “the world’s first known whisky-beer,” a 7% ABV golden ale brewed with 100% peat-smoked Scottish distilling malt.  “Rex Attitude,” brewed by Yeastie Boys (ugh) in Wellington, New Zealand, is said to be intensely smoky and earthy, and has been described as tasting like bacon […]

I was thinking this morning that I have gone through some sort of craft beer metamorphosis.  I have always been a non-macro guy.  I think that is the case ever since I had my first Sam Adams Boston Lager back in about 1985.  I remember trying it and thinking wow beer can be this good.  But […]

I’m not sure if it’s a spring cleaning thing, or if I’m afraid the coming warm weather will skunk the stash I have in my garage, but I’ve decided it’s time to drink all those beers that have been hanging around for months and months and months.  The Great Drinkdown of 2011 has begun! Now, […]

Well, I really don’t know what to make of this “beer”.  And I put Beer in quotes, because can it really be beer without any alcohol?  I’m not saying it has to be a lot but maybe like 2% or 1.5%.  This beer is being developed by a Belgian Team at AB InBev.  They say […]