The following is Part 1 of a five part story about how Don and I almost landed a TV show on Discovery. It’s a long tale (sometimes the good ones are) so I’ve broken it into a few “chapters.” I’ll be posting an installment each day until the story is complete.  Enjoy! Part 1: The […]

Oh craft beer, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I was thinking about how two things that are very similar, craft beer and macro-brews, occupy very different parts of my brain.  Both are beer, but one I adore and the other repels me. This also goes for the people who make […]

I was checking out the Facebook musings of awesome beer writer Lew Bryson (friend him!) and discovered something interesting. There’s a new brewery getting off the ground called NOTCH, and they only make  session beers.   Everything they brew is under 4.5% ABV. 

I know I’ve been writing about the benefits of craft beer lately, maybe too much.  But I’m in a bad way right now. You see, I have the spine of a 75 year old man, at least that’s what the doctor said 10 years ago.  I guess that makes it 85 now. Apparently I have […]

Some folks are so competitive, it’s almost pathological.  The minute you see them you know you’re in for an earful of how great they’re doing, how much money they’re making or whatever their latest conquest or acquisition might be.  And don’t bother trying to top them – whatever you’ve achieved, they’ve done better, whether it’s […]

Sometimes the circumstances under which you first encounter something can make the difference between loving it or hating it. Pop music is a great example of this.  I can’t listen to the radio these days, because the music is all soulless corporate crap or garbled gangsta mumbling.  Of course my parents probably thought the same […]

Don and I have decided to bite the bullet and try our hand at this whole podcasting craze the kids keep talking about.  We’re still working out the technical details of how to do it from across the country.  Don rejected my two-tin-cans-and-a-cassette-recorder proposal, but we should have it all ironed out soon. In the […]

Clyde Soles sent this our way and thought you all might like it.  We sure do.  Turns out beer is good for the whole family, even the baby!  Ah, the good old days. Anybody care to suggest a caption?

Leave it to Don to be a total downer.  Yesterday, I posted about the nutritional value of craft beer, and how it has some pretty good stuff to offer the drinker.  Thanks again to Clyde Soles for sharing his research here. Good beer is made of simple, wholesome ingredients like water, hops, barley and wheat. […]

Nothing to see here folks, just a test of WordPress’s new post by phone feature.  They give you a number, you call it, leave a message and it’s posted to your blog.  Viola! Now I’m adding a little text to see if it looks like a normal post.  All I need is a pic of […]

I recently ran across the work of Clyde Soles, who is a photographer, author, mountain climber and a fella who generally feasts on life.   He has literally written the book on how to train to be your best at the grueling sport of mountain climbing. A big part of this is nutrition – fueling your […]

So the big weekend has come to a close and I’m having a hard time standing upright.  I blame my brother Don, I blame Don Draper and I blame Kentucky. You see, I have a pretty potent whiskey hangover right now, as I fought to enjoy every scrap of time I could find this weekend.  […]

So it turns out that practice does not make perfect. While men consume over 70% of the beer in the US, the experts at MillerCoors told the Wall Street Journal that tasting the nuances of beer is something women do better than men. In particular, they say women are more adept at picking out very […]

I recently took the family on a mini-vacation to Hershey, Pennsylvania and we stayed at the fabled Hotel Hershey.  It’s a grand place, but the beer selection did not match the fine attention to detail found elsewhere throughout the resort.  I was especially disappointed that they were serving beers from California and Delaware at Harvest, […]

Yesterday Don posted about enjoying the great flavors of summer beers.  This was actually his position in a bit of a debate we’ve been having behind the scenes.  He’s a big fan of the summer seasonal delights, enjoying saisons, lagers, pilsners, pale ales and other light and crisp brews.  I say keep ’em.  I want […]