This ad for Sapporo might just be the coolest beer commercial ever made.  Actually, at two minutes long, I don’t think commercial is the right word – it’s more like a mini-movie.  It does an awesome job of portraying how the essence of Japanese culture and tradition is imbued in every can (minus the used […]

We recently shared some craft beer buying data from the folks over at Brewers Association that showed the most popular styles of craft beer sold in drug, grocery and convenience store in 2010 were as follows: Top 5 Craft Styles and Segment Share: 1. Seasonal 18.1 2. Pale Ale 15.3 3. India Pale Ale 10.4 […]

#wk209 I’m rambling a bit today because Last night Jim and I did our podcast about the whiskey we were sent from New Holland And I drank most of it.  No joke, almost a full fifth.  I drank the Brewers Whiskey entirely and the other to about two fingers left in a very skinny bottle. […]

Sometimes more is more.  Take the turducken for instance.  It’s a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck stuffed inside a deboned turkey, and the whole thing is stuffed with stuffing.  The result is a dish that is both absurd and divine. Firestone Walker took a similar approach with their Firestone 14, a beer created […]

Earlier this week we shared an important scientific fact that you already knew: Caffeine and anti-inflammatories (you know, coffee and Advil) can help alleviate the symptoms of a hangover.  Really, Professor Obvious? Well, on the heels of that groundbreaking research comes another startling fact: People get drunk at sporting events.  Who knew?!  Oh, that’s right, […]

I’ve got some good news about my latest batch of homebrew – it’s alive!  I posted the other day about how the boil went well, but my yeast didn’t start.  That’s what I get for using a smack pack with an expiration date from the Eisenhower administration. I got a ton of helpful responses as […]

Time to roll out the barrel, or barrels might be more correct.  Jim and I will be putting together another in our series of podcasts this week, and our theme is drinking stuff that came from barrels. One segment that we haven’t done in a while is viewer mail. This is your opportunity to ask […]

Our pal Bryce Eddings has tons of street cred when it comes to beer, and it isn’t just due to his beer-guy facial hair (he sports a glorious goatee). Bryce also edits the beer section of about.com, and he has asked us to get the word out about the Beer portion of their Reader’s Choice […]

There was a time in the history of spirits that the can was the sole receptacle of fizzy yellow beer.  Sure they had it in bottles too, but beer in a can was a lager, or perhaps a pilsner and it was made by a few huge breweries.  So the can got a bad name.  That […]

…exactly what many of us have been doing all along.  According to a recent study by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, the best hangover cure is aspirin and coffee.  I’d add a big greasy breakfast to that as well, but according to the study it doesn’t make a difference. And they call themselves scientists!  

True to my New Year resolution, I actually got off of my butt and brewed a beer this weekend.  It was the Bell’s Two Hearted clone I picked up from Northern Brewer in April of last year.  That’s right – this kit has been sitting around for almost nine months.  While that’s probably not a […]

Well, I decided to take inventory of beers I had in the bunker last night.  I thought I had a lot of Winter brews, and I do, so I am going to be thinning them out as I begin to make way for Barleywine season and the flood of yellow beers to follow.  So what […]

The Brewers Association recently released the 2011 Beer Style Guidelines and it’s making me feel stupid, or at least lazy. You see, I can’t muster up the attention span to actually care.  The fact that American-Style Brett is now an official style doesn’t rock my world, and the significant update to the Belgian-Style Flanders Oud […]

Look, sit down, we need to talk. It’s been brought to my attention that many craft beer buyers are doing it wrong.  Now I’m not saying that you’re doing it wrong, but you’re a craft beer buyer, and these statistics show that  many of your peers are buying the wrong beer.  I hate to think […]

A Clockwork Orange was one of my favorite movies when I was in high school.  It had everything a teen lad could want: chaos, violence, sex and a cool language that I could parrot with my “droogs.” But what really made me love the movie was the core concept behind it – whether or not […]