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.  […]

It was late last night and I was contemplating going to bed.  It was 11pm and I was getting a little bleary after watching my current televised guilty pleasure; the “Next Iron Chef America.”  Right after the “Next Iron Chef” airs they try to hook you into watching Iron Chef America.  Good thinking on the […]

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

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, […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

NOW WITH POLL GOODNESS: We talk a lot about beer and whiskey on this site, and we extol the virtues of each one.  The virtues are many, and every once in a while I get a clunker that is used to clean the drain in the sink, but mostly these two beverages are sweet and […]

And on the seventh day he rested, for lo, he was full of pork and beer and good cheer.  Maybe I’m paraphrasing here, but if you’re in the Dallas area, this could be you next Sunday, after a week of beer-inspired food paired with some carefully selected Avery beers. The folks at three Dallas restaurants […]

Another weekend is upon us (huzzah!) and I’m ready for some beer. And this is no ordinary weekend, no, because this Sunday is October 10, 2010.  That’s right, 10/10/10. People are latching onto this date in lots of ways.  Some folks are trying to have a “global moment” for the environment at 10:10pm on 10/10/10, […]

So far this season we have reviewed a host of fall seasonal beers.  We have pitted them against one another like the review Jim did of Southern Tier’s Pumking vs Avery’s Kaiser, as well as the more traditional reviews I did of Sam Adams Octoberfest, and Shipyard’s Pumpkinhead.  Plus I know there are plenty of […]

Well the Obvious answer here is YES! It is certainly possible to get inebriated by consuming too much beer in one sitting.  That really isn’t my question, more my question is do you get drunk on beer?  Personally I find it difficult to drink enough on beer, even big beers to feel intoxicated. I’m thinking […]