I took a look back to see just how many times I have posted from the Super 8 hotel in Grangeville, Idaho, and believe it or not this is my 9th time posting from this hotel.  Well like John Candy in Splash, when I find something that works I stick with it!  What’s even a […]

Yesterday afternoon I posted a trailer for a new Discovery show that argues that Beer was at the root of most, if not all historic movements in civilization.  The trailer does its job by peaking your interest about the topic.  I actually brought it up at the dinner table last night.  I told my family […]

I’m guessing that Discovery network is trying to generate excitement around this topic.  Perhaps in anticipation of another Brew Masters run. I’m hoping.  Check it out.

I don’t know about you, but my wife has been very good about my blogging.  She has put up with the time it takes to do it, she has put up with the expense associated with it, and she has put up with the…well drinking.  See she isn’t much of a drinker herself.  Oh she […]

Think back to about 15 months ago when there was a shortage of Knob Creek Bourbon.  Some say it was a manufactured crisis as some areas had plenty and never ran out and other places didn’t have any on the shelves for almost 6 months.  We talked about it here.  Well, that is ancient history […]

#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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I love Jimmy Russell.  Yes it is a bonified mancrush!  I mean, how can you not love a man that has spent his life making great bourbon for the masses?  Jimmy, for those of you who don’t know, is the Master Distiller at Wild Turkey bourbon distillery, where he has been making great bourbon since […]

Lately I’ve been doing some re-discovering of many of the whiskeys I have in the bunker.  That is a big benefit of being the brother that does the bulk of the whiskey reviews, once you do the review you still have lots of whiskey left for sipping and enjoying later.  I currently have about 30 […]

My brother Jim has a tradition whenever his Jets make it into the playoffs.  He will watch the game and make sure that he drinks at least one Southern Tier Oat beer, the fantastic Oatmeal Stout from the brewers over at Southern Tier in New York State.  He actually did a post about this last […]

Well it is January and it is one of the happiest and saddest months for pro football.  If you are  football nuts like Jim and I you are happy because the playoffs are here, and if your team is in them so much the better, and if they didn’t make it, so what it is […]

My Brother’s problems with sour style ales has been long, storied, and well documented, on this blog at least.  But I think I learned a little something about his and my taste last year at the Great American Beer Festival.  While we are very similar minded on many brews that we like, I think I […]

I love Black Licorice.  I mean I will climb trees for the stuff.  If someone said there was a bag of it on the roof I’d have my ladder out in a flash and make my son climb up there and get it for me!  (what else are kids for?).  I love the stuff, but […]