The beer bike is a glorious invention, one that brings together two things that many craft beer geeks love; cold brews and pedal-powered vehicles.   The only way this thing could be any better is if it helped you grow a brewer’s beard as well.  That would be the beer geek hat trick! 

Now I know that we are a specialty blog where we review and discuss Beer and Whiskey.  I also know that if Whiskey had a polar opposite it would be Tequila.  However two things happened for me to break with convention and post this slight review of Espolon Tequila.  First yesterday was Cinco de Mayo […]

If pop culture has taught us anything, it’s that pretty people always win and the zombie apocalypse is inevitable.  The rules of zombie behavior have been well established (most recently by AMC’s The Walking Dead) and survival guides are everywhere. But what these guides fail to mention is how to survive in style, most notably, […]

I never really understood all the hoopla ( that’s right, I said hoopla) around the Kentucky Derby, or just about any horse race for that matter.  You spend all day in the hot sun, drinking Mint Juleps, wearing ridiculous hats (if you’re a woman) and waiting for the main event that lasts 3 minutes.  (I guess it’s kind […]

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. […]

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is how I always imagine these in my head… With Spring finally starting to…uh…spring, it’s time to turn our attention to one of my favorite outdoor activities – going to beer festivals.  It used to be that there were a few key events and a few also-rans and that was it.  But as craft […]

The art of aging beer is something for which I have very little patience.  Jim and I make no bones about the fact that we don’t really age beers and that we think if beer is supposed to be aged that the brewers ought to age it before releasing them.  Some do, most do not. […]