I’ll be honest – it’s a long time since I’ve been excited about Halloween.  We’re talking decades.  Once I stopped trick-or-treating, the holiday lost all of its charm for me.  That all ended yesterday morning when I discovered a care package on my front porch.  

Remember the Good Old Days, when young men and women seeking higher education kicked back and relaxed with a beer or two?  Perhaps a ping-pong ball would be tossed, Grand-Prize-Game-style into a delta of red cups.  Someone might have even cracked the cap on a pint of Jack.  Maybe folks even passed the peace pipe.  […]

There’s controversy brewing over at Lost Abbey, where the label of their Witch’s Wit (above) has drawn the ire of a powerful pagan.  And, as the New York Times reports,  it all started with a trip to the beer store.  

This is why the Taliban should never get us too mad.  We do these things for fun! Imagine if we got really mad!

Victory comes clean with their Bourbon Barrel project.  Jim and I are supposed to be getting some of this…Hmmm we’ll see.  Dark Intrigue will hit the shelves in November.   That is 7 months in the barrel…Yummm!  

I could just stop writing here, as the headline really says it all. Southern Tier’s Choklat is a gush of silken indulgence.  It’s a beer that coats your tongue with a powerful, velvety decadence the way the Smashing Pumpkins’ Cherub Rock coats your ears with a smooth and booming wall of sound.  It is all […]

I thought about this on my way in today.  I saw that someone found our site by googling the question “Is drinking on the weekend bad for you?”  It got me thinking that there are a lot of questions that I sometimes wonder about, and moreover wonder about how you all feel about certain things, […]

I don’t go in for beer rating sites, mostly because I feel what’s good and what’s awful is a personal matter of taste. That said, it’s hard to argue with the results of Rate Beer’s 50 Worst Beers in the World, as chosen by thousands of the site’s users. Of course a few of these […]

Sometimes things line up just right, and events conspire to create a wonderful moment.  I had such a moment last night, and it involved elves, otters and an early dose of Christmas magic. The wheels were set in motion late last week, when Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas, one of my all-time favorite Christmas shows, randomly […]

Well it happened again last night…twice.  I had dropped by my local watering hole at Brewforia, and they had their usual selection of good craft beer on tap, but they also had their usual great selection of bottles.  So…Decisions, decisions.  Well then the bartender made it a little easier by asking if I wanted to […]

A wise man once said “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.”  Actually, it was the 80’s hair band Cinderella, but it’s still a good insight into the way things work – you usually don’t know that the best times are happening until they’ve passed you by.  I’m sure Cinderella didn’t realize that […]

I continue to marvel at the growth of craft beer. I’m a firm believer that when folks, no matter their background, find good beer they’ll know what to do with it.  They typically embrace it.  Sure good beer costs a bit more than the run of the mill stuff, but even the uninitiated can usually […]

It was a coolish afternoon on Saturday, and I found myself at work.  We just moved offices and I needed to get set up.  After a week of living with limited functionality I needed to take some time to unpack fully and set up my new workspace.  I also have a number of deadlines bearing […]

It has come to my attention that a lot of the beer drinkers on this blog do not enjoy whiskey like they do beer.  I think this is a shame, as many of the barrel flavors that many beers now have come from using whiskey barrels and integrating the flavors of the barrel and the […]

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 […]