I’ve been flying around America a lot for the past couple of weeks, first visiting our folks in Milwaukee, then escorting our mom out to Don’s house in Idaho.  In my travels, I’ve encountered some great beers that I want to share with friends and family.  But sharing means carrying, and carrying means putting bottles […]

Hype can be a fickle mistress.  It can draw attention to something that’s marveluous and help it gain in popularity (like Seinfeld), but it can also create high expectations that, if not met, can drive people like me away quicker than you can say Battlestar Galactica. I don’t go in much for hype.  Just because […]

Well the circle is complete.  What started four month’s ago with Stone’s version of Saison du BUFF has come full circle with Victory Brewing’s release of Saison du BUFF.  Having never had any of these, I hear they are all very different, and they are all pretty tasty.  Of course I haven’t heard anything about […]

Avery Brewing makes it official!  After announcing back in January that they were going to be developing a canning line, their first brew is being canned today.  Joe’s Premium American Pilsner is Avery Brewing’s first beer in a can.  But it won’t be the last.  Take a look at their can warehouse! …

Well by this time of day this is becoming old news, but hopefully some of you that live in caves and under rocks and only believe what you read on Beer and Whiskey Brothers will happy to hear that there is yet more good news in the craft beer world.  The Craft Beer Alliance has […]

Let me start by apologizing for the crummy image above, but these guys and gals are too busy learning all they can about the beverage we love to worry about such trivialities as the appropriate scaling of an image for the web.  who the heck cares about that when there is beer to be judged, and […]

This is how my weekend started.  With a funeral.  A Funeral for my Son.  A funeral for his Bachelorhood!  Yes, my Son got married this weekend, and the festivities were great.  This kicked it off with a lunch put on by his co-workers.  He is working a summer job in Boise in a Carpenter shop […]

On this episode we talk about a great summer tradition – drinking away from home! Don shares his impressions of a couple of Idaho brewers; Wallace Brewing and Laughing Dog, as well as reviewing Four Roses small batch bourbon. Jim talks about the beer scene in Wisconsin and reviews a couple of goodies from New […]

Don recently carpet-bombed New Belgium on our podcast, where he said that he disliked everything they brewed. Having been down that road myself in the past (I dissed Flying Dog in its entirety), I knew that the “common” beers a brewery makes don’t always tell the whole story. Many breweries brew on two levels, making a selection of […]

Well here we go!  Our first remote broadcast, and our first one where Jim and I will actually be face to face!  As some of you know Jim and I live across the country from each other, he in Jersey, and me in Idaho.  Well Tomorrow Jim will be escorting our Mother out here to […]

I’m sure by now everyone who reads this blog today should be fully aware of BrewDog’s End of History, the beer that comes stuffed in roadkill.  There has been a ton written about it and how they continually keep jumping sharks with their stronger and stronger brews that get zanier and zanier.  Well yesterday I […]

I admire New Holland for swinging for the fences with their High Gravity series of big beers.  Some are excellent, like the oak aged Dragon’s Milk and some are very good like their Night Tripper Imperial Stout. But when you go big, you can fail big, and that’s the case with Charkoota Rye, a smoked […]

We do a lot of explaining and judging of different beers here on this site, as I know many of you do too.  We try to make sense of it all, and explaing flavors in a way that is at least somewhat objective (most of the time) and we try to be true to our […]

On our latest podcast, Don and I discussed beers and whiskeys that are well regarded, but we can’t stand.  My beers included Duchesse De Buorgogne, a Flemish red ale that it just waaaay too sweet for my tastes.  Other people rave about this beer and I just cannot understand what all the hubub is about.  Bell’s Oberon […]