Yesterday afternoon I posted a trailer for a new Discovery show that argues that Beer was at the root of most, if not all historic movements in civilization.  The trailer does its job by peaking your interest about the topic.  I actually brought it up at the dinner table last night.  I told my family […]

We recently shared some craft beer buying data from the folks over at Brewers Association that showed the most popular styles of craft beer sold in drug, grocery and convenience store in 2010 were as follows: Top 5 Craft Styles and Segment Share: 1. Seasonal 18.1 2. Pale Ale 15.3 3. India Pale Ale 10.4 […]

Sometimes more is more.  Take the turducken for instance.  It’s a deboned chicken stuffed into a deboned duck stuffed inside a deboned turkey, and the whole thing is stuffed with stuffing.  The result is a dish that is both absurd and divine. Firestone Walker took a similar approach with their Firestone 14, a beer created […]

I’ve got some good news about my latest batch of homebrew – it’s alive!  I posted the other day about how the boil went well, but my yeast didn’t start.  That’s what I get for using a smack pack with an expiration date from the Eisenhower administration. I got a ton of helpful responses as […]

Time to roll out the barrel, or barrels might be more correct.  Jim and I will be putting together another in our series of podcasts this week, and our theme is drinking stuff that came from barrels. One segment that we haven’t done in a while is viewer mail. This is your opportunity to ask […]

…exactly what many of us have been doing all along.  According to a recent study by Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, the best hangover cure is aspirin and coffee.  I’d add a big greasy breakfast to that as well, but according to the study it doesn’t make a difference. And they call themselves scientists!  

True to my New Year resolution, I actually got off of my butt and brewed a beer this weekend.  It was the Bell’s Two Hearted clone I picked up from Northern Brewer in April of last year.  That’s right – this kit has been sitting around for almost nine months.  While that’s probably not a […]

Well, I decided to take inventory of beers I had in the bunker last night.  I thought I had a lot of Winter brews, and I do, so I am going to be thinning them out as I begin to make way for Barleywine season and the flood of yellow beers to follow.  So what […]

The Brewers Association recently released the 2011 Beer Style Guidelines and it’s making me feel stupid, or at least lazy. You see, I can’t muster up the attention span to actually care.  The fact that American-Style Brett is now an official style doesn’t rock my world, and the significant update to the Belgian-Style Flanders Oud […]

Look, sit down, we need to talk. It’s been brought to my attention that many craft beer buyers are doing it wrong.  Now I’m not saying that you’re doing it wrong, but you’re a craft beer buyer, and these statistics show that  many of your peers are buying the wrong beer.  I hate to think […]

A Clockwork Orange was one of my favorite movies when I was in high school.  It had everything a teen lad could want: chaos, violence, sex and a cool language that I could parrot with my “droogs.” But what really made me love the movie was the core concept behind it – whether or not […]

My brother Jim has a tradition whenever his Jets make it into the playoffs.  He will watch the game and make sure that he drinks at least one Southern Tier Oat beer, the fantastic Oatmeal Stout from the brewers over at Southern Tier in New York State.  He actually did a post about this last […]

I had a craft beer “a-ha’ moment this weekend, when my buddy Frank brought over a four pack of Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had one of these beers, and it struck me what a truly wonderful brew this is, and how it’s a testament to the […]

Well it is January and it is one of the happiest and saddest months for pro football.  If you are  football nuts like Jim and I you are happy because the playoffs are here, and if your team is in them so much the better, and if they didn’t make it, so what it is […]

Happy Friday everybody!  We’ve seen a lot of new faces around here lately, so I thought it’d be fun to dust off some of our most-popular infographics for folks who haven’t seen them or would like to see them again.  They are a great way to goof around, no?  Enjoy, and happy Friday!