This prediction of the Rapture on May 21st is having a really interesting and kind of comical impact on the Beer and Whiskey Brother’s Blog.  You see about a year ago I did a review of Lost Abbey’s beer Judgement Day.  It is a very raisiny sweet stout with virtually no carbonation.  I believe the […]

To take off on my Brother’s theme today I ended up doing an “Accidental Share” this weekend, and it felt really good.  This story has a weird origin.  My wife was in the garden and couldn’t get our irrigation working.  This is not a new development as our pressurized irrigation water from the canal out back seems […]

So this happened.  Friday night I was dipping into my wife’s hoard of Dragon’s Milk and watching the movie Kick Ass.  I was having a great time – the beer was delicious and the movie was fun for what it was.  It had been a CRAZY week, so kicking back with a good beer was […]

My wife is awesome.  Last night she popped into our local beer store, which has recently begun to offer a limited selection of craft beers.  There she found six bottles of New Holland Dragon’s Milk, one of our all time favorites, and a beer that’s been tough to get lately.  So what did she do? 

OK, this is my lame attempt to be funny and to do something graphical.  What do you expect from MS Paint!  No photoshop here, and it shows!  Anyway… I picked up a can of Newcastle Brown Ale the other day, specifically because it was in a can.  

We had heard earlier this year that TGI Fridays was going to be introducing Craft beer onto its beverage list, well someone must have said this stuff would taste great if you marinated it in beer.  So TGI Fridays is taking the next logical step and cooking with the craft beer. Their new “Better with […]

I just came across the label for Smuttynose Homunculus, a Belgian-style golden ale that’s part of their Big Beer Series.  While this looks like another tasty brew from Smutty, the label gives me major cause for pause. Now before you call me a homophobe (to which I’d reply “is that some kind of record player?”), […]

The folks over at GOOD.is (I have no idea what a “dot is” site is, but it looks like the real deal) have put together an infographic showing the United States of GOOD Beer.  They asked their readers to vote for “the most awesome, best-tasting, sustainably brewed, independently owned, community-oriented craft beer brewed in your […]

The beer bike is a glorious invention, one that brings together two things that many craft beer geeks love; cold brews and pedal-powered vehicles.   The only way this thing could be any better is if it helped you grow a brewer’s beard as well.  That would be the beer geek hat trick! 

This is a hilarious new ad campaign from the folks at Breckenridge brewery.  In total there are 4 different 15 second spots, each poking fun at a big boy advertisement.  It is so easy, but it is so funny in its simplicity and how it exposes the big boys for all their stupid advertising shenanigans. […]

It’s been a while since I’ve done a straight up beer review but yesterday I had a beer that affected me in many ways.  Sierra Nevada in this part of the world (Idaho) is like the west’s version of Samuel Adams.  Good, solid beers, reasonably priced and a good reserve series.  I had seen the […]

A recent study from AlixPartners shows that the next year is going to be a good one for most drink makers – unless you’re a macro brewer. The study polled 1,000 people in early February, asking if they expected to spend more or less on certain kinds of beverages, from sports drinks to the heavy […]

If pop culture has taught us anything, it’s that pretty people always win and the zombie apocalypse is inevitable.  The rules of zombie behavior have been well established (most recently by AMC’s The Walking Dead) and survival guides are everywhere. But what these guides fail to mention is how to survive in style, most notably, […]

. . I found the above video over at the Beer section of Reddit.  It shows a looooong line of empty craft beer bottles that were consumed during the Dark Lord Day festivities.  It’s like a junkyard filled with exotic cars, each more tantalizing than the last. I think I need to go to this […]

I love reading Paul Gatza’s blog posts over at the Brewer’s Association, mostly because I’m a bit of a numbers nerd when it comes to craft beer and he’s always sharing stats.  I love following the “story” of what’s happening in the rapidly evolving world of good beer.  It’s like my favorite soap opera. The […]