The fine folks over at the Brooklyn Brewery obviously have a problem.  Their obsession for beer has led them past the kegs, beyond the bottles and straight for the showers.  That’s right, Brooklyn Brewery now sells beer soap, perfect for making you crave a chocolate stout at 6:30 in the morning. The soap comes in […]

My buddy Chad (you may know him as @BeerPoet on Twitter) and I have been discussing for some time getting together for lunch and drinking some of our “ungettables”.  For me, I brought a 2007 Pannepot Belgian Quad, and Chad brought a 750ml of Ivan the Terrible, Big Sky Brewing’s barrel aged Stout, the 2010 […]

The news is everywhere – Osama Bin Laden is dead.  And while this won’t have any great effect on how Al-Qaeda operates, it might offer a little closure for folks who lost a loved one on September 11th or in any of the other attacks that have been perpetrated on his behalf.  It might also […]

What is going on? Didn’t any one tell Mother Nature that it is Spring?  The calendar says April?  For God’s sake its almost May!  Isn’t the Saying April showers bring May flowers?  Not April Snow you don’t gotta mow.  Ok, that is enough of a rant.  This was the view from my front porch this morning. […]

Poor Wrecks Bell. As he puts it, he was “just a small time business man, trying to make a bock.” A bock beer that is. And being from the Lone Star State of Texas, he decided to call that beer Star Bock. Where’s the harm in that? According to the U.S. Trademark Office, there was […]

[Click to Enlarge] . . Here’s a very cool infographic developed by Melissa Schmechel from Darlingville Design. It’s part of a Facebook contest that Sixpoint is sponsoring. They have asked designers to develop art around the concept of “Beer is Culture” and what you see above is Melissa’s contribution.  She posted it to our Facebook wall […]

I was thinking this morning that I have gone through some sort of craft beer metamorphosis.  I have always been a non-macro guy.  I think that is the case ever since I had my first Sam Adams Boston Lager back in about 1985.  I remember trying it and thinking wow beer can be this good.  But […]

I’m not sure if it’s a spring cleaning thing, or if I’m afraid the coming warm weather will skunk the stash I have in my garage, but I’ve decided it’s time to drink all those beers that have been hanging around for months and months and months.  The Great Drinkdown of 2011 has begun! Now, […]

Well, I really don’t know what to make of this “beer”.  And I put Beer in quotes, because can it really be beer without any alcohol?  I’m not saying it has to be a lot but maybe like 2% or 1.5%.  This beer is being developed by a Belgian Team at AB InBev.  They say […]

OK, hold onto your butts because this is some legal stuff I’m gonna be layin’ down here.  I have it on good authority that there is a method to AB InBev’s madness when it came to the purchase of Goose Island Beer Company, and unfortunately it has nothing to do with making beer…

We can talk all we want to about how craft beer is gaining respect as an honest-to-goodness alternative to wine, but that’s simply not the case in the British Royal Court.  Queen Elizabeth herself has chosen the menu for the royal nuptials, and beer is definitely NOT included.  Why?  Because it simply isn’t worthy of […]

Well it is Monday morning, and I don’t know about you, but it was damn hard to get out of bed this morning.  I spent the day with the kids, doing what else?…Eating candy.  Oh, there was other stuff like lifting weights, changing oil in the car, smoking a cigar, etc, but a good portion […]

Well it is happening again.  This time it is Pabst Brewing the makers of Colt 45 Blast.  They are being targeted by 19 state’s attorney Generals to take their product from shelves in their respective states.  The argument is that each of the Colt 45 blasts is the equivalent of 5 beers in one can, and based […]

This is all John King’s fault.  He posted a picture of Pliny the Elder on his Facebook wall, saying it was his reward for a long run he had taken. It got me to thinking about a post I did last year about how craft beer is pretty suitable as a recovery drink. After all, […]

I saw over at Beernews.org today that the Ithica Beer Company is brewing up a new IPA that they are dedicating to the band Phish.  This is not new territory for the band, as many of you are probably aware that Ben and Jerry’s has their delectable ice cream Called Phish Food.  This is a hopped up […]