Some you might be familiar with the game “Marry, F@$k, Kill” where you are presented with three members of the opposite sex (or the same sex if you live in a progressive state), and you have to pick which one you’d marry, which one you’d use purely for carnal pleasures, and which one you’d send […]

I was just about six years old when the original Star Wars movie was released, and it made a big impression on me.  I collected the figures, coveted the playsets, and marveled that I could have actual images from the big screen in my pocket (I had complete set of trading cards).  The movie was […]

. They say in space, no one can hear you scream.  But I’m in New Jersey and I’m screaming about this LAME MOVIE TIE-IN!!!  It appears that Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel wandered into the lair of Coors Light, which mercilessly attached itself to the movie’s face and inserted its egg laying tube down poor Prometheus’s […]

The second I discovered this gif of a LEGO Mindstorms robot that’s been programmed to solve a Rubik’s cube, I knew I just had to share it.  Not only does it combine two items near and dear to my inner-geek-child’s heart, it also counts gets my post counter off of 666, and who the hell […]

I recently wrote about great beer with awful labels for Today.com, and the whole topic of “shelf presence” got me to thinking how susceptible I am to primal urges when I’m shopping for beer.  I see a pretty face and go all weak at the knees. It’s like when I was a kid at a […]

I recently shared a video of a craggy old man in jaunty house slippers opening a beer bottle with a chainsaw.  Well, filmmakers Chris Sumers and Adam Young take it to the next level (at least variety-wise) with their short “Bottle Cap Blues,” a quick and fun film showing improvised ways of opening beer bottles. […]

I’m a creature of habit.  I’ll eat the same thing every day for lunch without complaint, and I stick to a fairly strict routine in my life, which is great when I’m doing healthy stuff, and awful when I’m on a cheese and crackers binge.  All told, I’d be pretty easy to assassinate – just […]

It’s been well-documented in this space that I have a problem with hipsters. There’s something about those people and their “fixie” bikes and their trucker hats and their ironic facial hair and their koi fish tattoo sleeves and they’re lumberjack shirts and their love of Pabst Blue Ribbon that makes me want to expose them […]

. Here’s something you don’t see every day, and probably with good reason.  This older gentleman seems very fond of chainsaw, using for the somewhat (in chainsaw terms) delicate task of removing the cap off a bottle of beer.  Well at least he’ll never be frustrated by those silly Churchkey Can Co. cans Don wrote […]

Homebrewing for special occasions is more common than I thought.  I realized this as I started doing research (which should be a four letter word) for this week’s Today Show article, which is all about guys who homebrewed for their own weddings (you can find it here). I stayed on the topic of brewing for […]

If you live under a rock, then I have some news for you: American Craft Beer Week started on Monday!  It’s week full of special craft beer events across the nation, unless you live in New Jersey, perhaps the lamest craft beer state in America.  Sure, we get some pretty awesome beers here, but the […]

If I were to ask you what beer has the strongest brand equity in America, you’d probably grimace a bit and reply with a dejected “Budweiser.” And I say, “nope.” “Coors Light, then,” you might say. “They have those stupid frozen train ads during football, where they blast through neighborhoods, probably running down pets and […]

My post this week for the Today Show Online is about how I went a little nuts when I saw that out of 39 entries, Coors Light won gold at the World Beer Cup for “American-Style Lager or Light Lager.”  I know the big boys have been winning this category for years, but it still […]

If science has taught us anything, it’s that everything is better when it’s wrapped in bacon.  I won’t support this assertion with examples, because we all know it’s true. The folks over at New Holland Artisan Spirits have been fooling around with whiskey for a while now, and the results have been very good.  But […]

I’m in full-on get-in-shape mode right now.  I’m waking up at the crack of dawn to work out, I’m watching what I eat like a hawk, and I even got one of those Nike+ Fuelband gizmos to remind me to get off my ass and move around. On the beer front, I’ve gotten very rigid […]