I’ve been nursing a brutally bad back since Monday, when it decided to go out without provocation or reason.  I’ve also had a head cold, which is just an AWESOME thing to have when your spine is resting against the nerves in your lower back. /Sneeze /Scream /Repeat I took some muscle relaxers and they […]

. What you see above is a game of one-handed Pabst Blue Ribbon football.  The rules are simple: you always MUST have a beer in your hand (and if you drop, you gotta chug), tackles are made by one-handed touch, and the first team to 70 points wins. It’s been played by a group of […]

You don’t have to watch Boardwalk Empire religiously to admire the work of actor Jack Huston.  He plays WWI veteran Richard Harrow, a Wisconsin boy who went to war and came back missing half of his face.  Harrow is all grizzled on the outside and seldom speaks, but when he does it’s slowly and with […]

Christmas is a time of year for hanging out with the people you love, reflecting on the blessings in you life, and, if you’re basically an eight year old trapped in an adult’s body like me, begging for the things you really, REALLY WANT!! It’s also a time of music, with many artists from Burl […]

The folks over at Samuel Adams whipped up this infographic showing how craft beer pummels the snot out of wine when it comes to variety, value, food pairing and attracting members of the opposite sex (I may have made one of these up). Send this to your wine-loving friends and tell them now’s the time […]

Things just got real. Beer geeks have had our collective noses pressed up against the glass at Goose Island, wondering how the takeover of the brewery by Anheuser-Busch might effect the quality of the beer. Up until now, there was a safeguard in place – Goose Island founder John Hall was hanging around keeping an […]

We’ve been talking for years about the craft beer bubble, asking whether or not we’re already past the golden age of craft brewing, a time when the industry is young and creative, and the future’s so bright, you gotta wear shades (which also help with hangovers, BTW). Will things continue to get bigger and better, […]

I was chatting with Samuel Adams founder Jim Koch not to long ago for a Today Show piece I was writing (double name-drop in a single sentence – woot!). Jim likes to talk, as do I, and our conversation wandered away from topic at hand and into some of the innovations he and his brewers […]

All of you who follow me on Facebook know I’m alive and well after Superstorm Sandy dragged her swirling ass over my little North Jersey town.  For those of you who aren’t my virtual buddies…umm…I’m alive and well.  And beer helped. The storm was scheduled to roll in last Monday, and I waited until the […]

Well, it is just about official.  I have a store!  I should sign the lease in the next day or two.  It has been, at times, tumultuous getting to this point, and now the real work begins!  I am renting a former restaurant space in Downtown Nampa, Idaho formerly called the Copper Canyon.  I will turn […]

I realized just how much of a metrosexual vibe I put out there as I walked through the Home Depot last night.  I was looking to buy a generator, a backup for the one I had just ordered from Amazon.com (the metrosexual superstore).  It’s not due to arrive until Monday, which might be too late, […]

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so our pal John over at TDYLF (an awesome movie and TV blog) should be blushing right about now. John has created a series of posts where he takes funny and bizarre user reviews from Netflix and features them on his site.  It’s an easy way […]

The video above shows a 40-key computer keyboard created entirely out of cans full of beer. While there’s no reason for such a device to exist (typing anything worthwhile on it would be akin to playing a concerto on the giant piano from Big), it did get my wheels turning. Specifically, I started to think […]

I did an interview for the Today Show’s website with Wynkoop Brewing Company “Idea Man” Marty Jones about Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout, a beer brewed with bull testicles.  The beer started as nothing more a video hoax (the best one of this year’s April Fools crop, IMO) but then Wynkoop actually went and brewed the […]

. This sister clearly has a bad habit (sorry, I couldn’t help myself). As this security camera footage from an Oklahoma convenience store shows, this elderly woman dressed as a nun smuggles not one, but two tall boy cans of beer or malt liquor under her robe.  She also appears to tuck a bottle of […]