There they are.  The ten little pieces of wood that have taken Maker’s Mark Whiskey to the next level.  See for 52 years Maker’s Mark Whiskey hasn’t put out a new product.  They have just bottled their small batch whiskey and that has been their only product they have.  Trouble is it isn’t very good […]

Let me start by apologizing for the crummy image above, but these guys and gals are too busy learning all they can about the beverage we love to worry about such trivialities as the appropriate scaling of an image for the web.  who the heck cares about that when there is beer to be judged, and […]

This is how my weekend started.  With a funeral.  A Funeral for my Son.  A funeral for his Bachelorhood!  Yes, my Son got married this weekend, and the festivities were great.  This kicked it off with a lunch put on by his co-workers.  He is working a summer job in Boise in a Carpenter shop […]

I was trolling around the internet for my next post this morning and came across an amazing article on About.com.  It explains the differences between Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, American Whiskey (including, Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, Rye Whiskey, and Blended American Whiskey {Blech!}) and Canadian Blended Whiskey (Double Blech!).  This answers A LOT of questions I […]

Well here we go!  Our first remote broadcast, and our first one where Jim and I will actually be face to face!  As some of you know Jim and I live across the country from each other, he in Jersey, and me in Idaho.  Well Tomorrow Jim will be escorting our Mother out here to […]

I’m sure by now everyone who reads this blog today should be fully aware of BrewDog’s End of History, the beer that comes stuffed in roadkill.  There has been a ton written about it and how they continually keep jumping sharks with their stronger and stronger brews that get zanier and zanier.  Well yesterday I […]

We do a lot of explaining and judging of different beers here on this site, as I know many of you do too.  We try to make sense of it all, and explaing flavors in a way that is at least somewhat objective (most of the time) and we try to be true to our […]

I love Spring.  It is perhaps my favorite season.  Flowers blooming, trees budding, new life all around.  It seems to happen every year that spring is just too short.  Around these parts it seems like we go from a high in the 40s to a high in the 80s overnight.  This year it seemed like […]

Well, someone’s gone and done it!  BeerAdvocate has rated the top 100 beers on the planet.  How did they do it?  Well it’s all explained here, but should they have done it might be a better question. One thing I have come to learn about brewers is they are all passionate.  They put their heart […]

Well it is August, and many people who are currently employed are taking vacations.  I just got back from 5 days up north, and Jim is currently in Milwaukee with his family, visiting with my sisters and my folks.  He will then escort our mother back here to Idaho for my Son’s wedding.  Unfortunately Dad […]

Almost as funny as crotch shots on America’s Funniest.  Enjoy

Now I’m gonna go and show my age.  I can actually remember when the Beatles White Album came out.  See never before, and I would argue that never since has a more symbiotic relationship ever existed in the history of song.  John, Paul, George, and Ringo just go together like peanut butter and Jelly, or […]