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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

OK, hold onto your butts because this is some legal stuff I’m gonna be layin’ down here.  I have it on good authority that there is a method to AB InBev’s madness when it came to the purchase of Goose Island Beer Company, and unfortunately it has nothing to do with making beer…

Well it is Monday morning, and I don’t know about you, but it was damn hard to get out of bed this morning.  I spent the day with the kids, doing what else?…Eating candy.  Oh, there was other stuff like lifting weights, changing oil in the car, smoking a cigar, etc, but a good portion […]

Well it is happening again.  This time it is Pabst Brewing the makers of Colt 45 Blast.  They are being targeted by 19 state’s attorney Generals to take their product from shelves in their respective states.  The argument is that each of the Colt 45 blasts is the equivalent of 5 beers in one can, and based […]

I saw over at Beernews.org today that the Ithica Beer Company is brewing up a new IPA that they are dedicating to the band Phish.  This is not new territory for the band, as many of you are probably aware that Ben and Jerry’s has their delectable ice cream Called Phish Food.  This is a hopped up […]