I love beer 24 hours a day.  I savor beer, write about beer, talk about beer and occasionally brew beer.  I even dream of beer sometimes. While I love beer every minute of the day, I don’t drink beer every minute of the day, especially in the morning.  But that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy […]

      Well, our Boomerang Beer Poll has cooled off enough for us to say it’s time to do a final tally.  We feel pretty good about the results this time, as they tend to jibe more with reality than our previous attempt at this. It seems that California and Colorado are America’s two […]

And on the seventh day he rested, for lo, he was full of pork and beer and good cheer.  Maybe I’m paraphrasing here, but if you’re in the Dallas area, this could be you next Sunday, after a week of beer-inspired food paired with some carefully selected Avery beers. The folks at three Dallas restaurants […]

I’ve said it before and will say it again – timing and mood matter with beer. You can have a great beer when you’re not in the mood for it, and most of its charms will be lost on you.  This happened to me a few times by the tail end of GABF, when I […]

Another weekend is upon us (huzzah!) and I’m ready for some beer. And this is no ordinary weekend, no, because this Sunday is October 10, 2010.  That’s right, 10/10/10. People are latching onto this date in lots of ways.  Some folks are trying to have a “global moment” for the environment at 10:10pm on 10/10/10, […]

Why is it called a “boomerang” beer poll?  Well because we did a similar one half a year ago, but the results were sketchy.  And that’s been bugging Don and I for a while now, so we called “do-over!”  

Pour outs.  They’re sad, but they do happen.  Infected beers, bad tasting beers, eyes that are bigger than your liver, all of these things contribute to our favorite beverage being sent to the sea. But how do you know that it’s time to give up and pour it out?  I’ve given it some thought, and […]

Usually these beer related flow charts don’t get too deep into craft beer territory, but this one is different.  They even give a nod to Sam Adams Utopias, for folks who have “$500 of Beer Love” to give.  Nice. The origins of the chart are a little fuzzy, but I think it’s a collaboration between […]

It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Victory Brewing’s beer and the great food they serve in their brewpub, but now they’ve taken it to a whole other level.  I watched the video above thinking their “Brewpub on Wheels” was a fictional vehicle whipped up for fun, but no – it’s real!!!

Don and I are preparing for our next podcast, which is all about the “Localvore” movement, eating only stuff that comes from within 100 miles home.  I love the idea of going local, but don’t always follow this practice, especially when it comes to beer. 

I enjoy brewing beer, but I’ve been procrastinating lately because I DETEST bottling. After having a Northern Brewer kit on the dining room table for a few months, I realize that I’m not going to get any closer to brewing without coming up with a bottling solution. So my solution is to NOT bottle, but […]

What makes a beer nerd truly good? We’ve been giving this some thought lately and came up with the graphic you see above.  It’s the Ten Commandments of Craft beer, a set of guidelines that we think would lead to a better world if all beer fans followed.  Of course, just like the real Ten […]

Even though fatalities are down over 7% this year, drunk driving still accounts for about one third of driving deaths in America.  The nice inforgraphic above (courtesy of Jalopnik) shows the 20 top cities in America which have the most people with a DUI on record. Apparently strict enforcement and lots of young people (who […]

New Jersey is hot right now, and for all the wrong reasons.  It started several years ago with the Sopranos, which had redeeming editorial value even though it showed New Jersey as a hot bed of mob activity.  Allegedly.  As they say in these parts, the Mafia doesn’t exist.  Got it? But recently things have […]

Last week we put up a poll asking which style of beer got you more into a Fall state of mind: pumpkin beers or Oktoberfest marzens.  Being the open-minded beer folks you all are, the leading response was “why choose? I like both.” Unsatisfied with such an enlightened answer, I took matters into my own […]