Lately, I’ve been too “busy” (a nice way of saying “lazy”) to keep up with the beers I have in primary fermentation.  I also broke a plastic airlock trying to pry it free from a stubborn bung, leaving me short this key piece of equipment.  This remarkable combination of laziness and manual inadequacy has led […]

I was going to save this for tomorrow, but it seems to be making the rounds this afternoon, so what the hay!  Here it is the Brewer’s Association top 50 list.  First is Craft Breweries by volume, and the last is all breweries by volume.  Any Surprises?…

Many folks are disgusted by the recent behavior of Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall, who relieved himself into two beer glasses at Bangers and Lace in Chicago on Friday.  Baternder Matty Eggleston (pictured above) was left behind to clean up the mess, and decided to contact the Chicago Tribune and make a PR mess for […]

Our pal Adam over at BeerNews.org is reporting that current Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall was caught urinating into two beer glasses at a birthday party held at Bangers and Lace in Chicago.  The incident happened Friday evening. The fact that Anheuser-Busch is in the process of purchasing Goose Island creates lots of opportunities to […]

There has been some discussion on Facebook and Reddit lately about the role ABV plays in craft beer.  I’ve really only been exploring this world for about 2 years now, so I consider myself a newcomer.  But what I think I knew was that higher ABV meant more flavor.  And to some extent I still […]

Whatcha doin’ this weekend?  My world has been all about basketball for about 5 months now.  My 16 year old son has always loved the sport, and is getting pretty good at it.  So as a loving parent that wants the best and most for his kids, I have indulged his love with basketball camps, […]

Last night I realized I have a fragile mind, one easily swayed by the little demons a P.R. person can put in your head.  In this case, I succumbed to the story about Flying Dog’s Raging Bitch being banned in Michigan – a story I wrote! Some longtime readers will remember that I had written […]

“If you get shot at, you can have a shot.” That’s the thinking of Alaska State Representative Bob Lynn (R-Anchorage), a Vietnam vet who’s behind a bill that would lower the state’s drinking age to 18 for every person who can show a valid armed forces identification. He’s also calling for lowering the tobacco buying […]

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) has deemed a beer label as inappropriate and forbid the sale of Flying Monkeys Brewing’s Smashbomb Atomic IPA.  No, there is no obvious swear word, there is no inappropriate sexual images, just a cartoony label that depicts an explosion on the bottle.  I’m sure when the brewers at […]

I have to call myself out on something – I don’t have any facial hair.  No beard, no goatee, not even a soul patch.  I’m clean shaven and sideparted.  I’ve come to the conclusion that this makes me somewhat of a rarity in the beer geek kingdom, sort of like one of those weird skinless […]

I had heard this morning that Allagash was pulling out of both Washington and Texas.  This contracting thing is getting chic.  Pretty soon everyone will want to do it.  So I wasn’t too concerned about it, because afterall I live in Idaho, and what the heck if Allagash pulls out of Washington, well boo hoo […]

Recent events have been a bit of a downer for us craft beer geeks.  There’s been legal wrangling, banned beers, big boy buyouts and allegations of macrobeer media bullying. That’s enough conflict and negativity for a year, much less a couple of weeks. In an effort to cleanse our mental palates, I thought I’d do […]

  WE’VE BEEN SERVED!  It happened to us!  I guess all the saber rattling over the last few days has spooked big beer, and we got a Cease and Desist  letter from the attorneys at Dewey, Chetham, & Howe, Big Beer’s go to attorneys for squashing little guys like us.  I can’t share all the particulars […]

This is going to be a long post for me, so fair warning.  It will be a little bit of a rant, and I am going to throw in some family history to boot, but this is important for me to say and I feel like the events that have unfolded this week in the […]

If you recall, we were the ones who said definitively that the Discovery show Brewmasters was dead.  There were a lot of folks who said we were wrong, but we had it on good authority that the show was done. Now we have it on even better authority.