I have said before on this blog that when you develop a brew and sell it to people for their hard earned money that you set yourself up for criticism.  It is like any one else that puts things into the market place, they are constantly dealing with critics.  Metallica comes to mind here.  I […]

Why I’m talking about Beer and Food for the big game of course!  What better to do on Super Bowl Sunday but to have a few friends over, make a bunch of snacky food and have some great beers to top it all off.  If the game is good that is a bonus, and if […]

So these are a couple of the cans I picked up this week.  The 21st Amendment Brewery has made the investment in a canning line, and beer–good beer–in a can is becoming more mainstream all the time as can technology and canning techniques have improved dramatically, and more breweries are making the investment, I’m sure […]

In her book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” author Jane Jacobs looks at what goes into the making of a great city.  There are many factors that need to combine to make a place truly special, and if certain of these factors are neglected or overlooked the city suffers.  For example in […]

Well its Friday yet again, and it is the weekend of the big experiment in the NFL.  As I’m sure many of you know the Pro Bowl used to be played in Hawaii a week or two (I can’t remember) after the Superbowl.  It was a get away for the players, a chance for them […]

Yeah, when you search Google for images of the Devastator, this is what you get.  Lots of robots and kids toys!  Why do we name toys for children Devastator?  Carnage and destruction is what this guy wreaks and for $24.99 your child can dominate the world and his friends with a plastic piece of garbage.  You […]

Man do I love Blueberries!  They are perhaps my favorite fruit.  Every time we go to the Oregon coast we make sure we are there in time for blueberry season.  We go to the U-Pick farms and everyone gets a coffee can that has a rope threaded through it to suspend it from their neck […]

Well the makers might want you to think so, but actually their contents are better than Jack.  It is an old advertising trick, let someone do a great job of branding and create a huge following, then come along with a product that looks virtually identical and maybe people will buy it by mistake.  Or […]

Man did we learn a lot about this this weekend in the NFL.  Just think about the scrutiny the quarterbacks of each of the four championship teams got before, during, and after each game!  My God the pressure must have been immense.  Mark Sanchez is too young, Brett Favre is too old, Drew Brees is […]

I was transported last night to a place far far away!  Perhaps it was a galaxy, and perhaps it was just a happy place that I have never been to before, but it was transforming!  It all started at my local beer store.  See in Idaho we don’t have a great selection of brews to […]

I had the idea to do this throwdown, because coffee porters are getting a lot of attention lately on the various posts, and I had the Rogue that I had picked up previously, so I got the Pipeline and was going to do a two coffee Porter throwdown.  I happened to mention this to Rick […]

This topic came up last night when I was doing the Coffee Porter throw down, that one of the tasters didn’t have a lot of experience, and was making comments like “this is really full bodied like a lager”, and “I like all the hops in the porter”, he really had no clue what he […]

I though I would try something a little different this week.  We always have our weekend post on Fridays, and I thought this week I would try something a little different.  Try stopping by anytime over the weekend to check in and let us know how things are going.  Did you have some great beer […]

It has been a quest as old as time itself, man searching for the secret to lift the affects of aging.  The magical fountain of youth, just drink the water and roll back the clock!  What an amazing concept, people trying to reverse the aging process and be forever young.  We’ve sung songs about it, […]

Now one thing that a lot of people on this blog probably don’t know about me is that I used to live in Alaska.  I lived just outside Anchorage in a little town called Eagle River, and one of my family’s favorite activities while we were there was to go to the start of the […]