Well the Wildcard Weekend has passed and 2 wildcard teams are still in the hunt.  Congrats to the Jets and Ravens, and their fans.  So a better question is what did you enjoy while those games were being televised across this great land?  I know I had great plans to have a couple of new […]

Otis was the town drunk on the Andy Griffith Show.  He used to come into the jail voluntarily to sleep off his drink from the night before.  It wasn’t like he was a threat or anything because he was always on foot, but his wife would bitch at him unmercifully if he came home in that […]

Wilford Brimley has long been the image that comes to mind when you think about oats.  We finally get past the image on the Quaker Oats package, and traded one curmudgeon for another.  Seriously how did the oat get so unlucky?  It would be like if C. Everet Coop started doing advertisements for the healthful benefits […]

One is a lonely number, and oftentimes a group can do things better than one.  Of course there is the exception here and there,  like you wouldn’t want two NFL Head Coaches on a team.  Can you imagine the chaos that might happen if two people gave the orders on the field.  Similarly you wouldn’t want […]

Don Vito Corleone was famous for his offers you can’t refuse, do so and your life was mmmm…lets say, in question.  Marlin Brando played the mobster in this quintessential role.  So if you are so bold as to name a beer after the Godfather it best live up to the name.  The folks at Laughing […]

Well I find myself back in Grangeville, Idaho.  Another project meeting at the highway district tomorrow at 1:00pm.  With the weather being unpredictable I chose to come up the day before and hang out at the hotel room for the evening while I watched the end of the Independence Bowl and the final broadcast of […]

A man in the water is one of the worst things that can happen to a sailing vessel.  Suddenly the entire focus shifts from whatever the mission of the boat is to saving that sailor.  It is a singular focus that shifts the mission of the vessel radically and immediately.  It is no wonder that […]

The origins of Chicago’s Christmas Ship date back to merchants in the 1800s that would sail wooden hulled ships to Michigan and purchase Christmas trees from the Indians to sell to people in the City of Chicago.  Their business boomed for the better part of two decades and then through ship wrecks and other more […]

Well for every yin there is a yang, and I have found the Christmas yang.  I was really hoping that my first foray into a  Belgian  style  Christmas beer would be a great experience, but it was not to be.  This beer reminded me of a time I went to Lewiston, Idaho and had a micro […]

Finally, I have gotten a good explanation for what Christmas Brews are all about.  We have spent a lot of time on this blog discussing the flavors of the season, and trying to find a brew that explains Christmas in beer.  I think we have been thinking about this all wrong.  This has got to […]

Day eight proved to be the one where 90 percent of my head cold symptoms subsided and I actually had a dram of whiskey last night to celebrate!  Not only could I taste it, but I could smell it and at a high enough level to post this review!  I’m back with a vengeance. So the […]

Well it seems like this thing is actually dissipating. I put it to the test last night.  I couldn’t take it any more.  I opened a bottle of Sierra Nevada’s Celebration Ale and gave it a go.  I figured it was pretty hoppy with 65 IBUs so some of it should have gotten through right? […]

Going on day six of my head cold now, and I’m sick and tired..well yeah I’m sick and tired, but I’m  also sick and tired of not being able to drink anything.  Not that I can’t drink, hell I’ve been drinking fluids like a fish, but I can’t taste or smell anything right now, so […]

The Holidays have their share of challenges.  There have been funny holiday songs like the “Twelve Disasters of Christmas”, countless humorous holiday cards, and I believe the quintessential holiday movie Christmas Vacation!  The story of Clark Griswald an average food additives scientist and his family in a quest to find the true meaning of Christmas.  Along the way he destroys his […]

At least that is what I thought when I bought my first Oatmeal Stout.  I thought lots of people like oats, and of course the horse thing, but there must be at least 10 people I can think of off hand that like oats…Lets see, theres Wilfred Brimley, He loves oats, there was Ulle Gibbins, […]