That’s the situation I found myself in (metaphorically, of course, if you’re reading this honey) as I sipped on a Jolly Pumpkin La Roja, a Flanders-style red ale that’s been aged in oak.  It’s exquisite really, a beautifully made beer.  It’s tart, spicy, and somehow manages to have a lovely earthiness to it, yet it […]

Thank goodness that people in Argentina like violent sports and that advertising agencies get paid too much money, because this is the result.  A blog post.  I mean, Rugbeer, the Argentinian vending machine that you have to body check before it will release your watery beer.  If you don’t smash it hard enough, no beer […]

A stretch beer is an important weapon in any beer nerd’s arsenal.  It’s the brew you buy to make the good stuff “stretch” a little bit further, saving you money and preserving your fancier beers for when you can really enjoy them.  

I’ll admit Saturday night got out of hand, but just ever so slightly.  I did that thing where you open a bomber of good beer before you realize that perhaps a bomber is too much.  But it’s open, and it’s good, and you’re not going to pour it down the drain.  So you say “what […]

Jim and I have spent a lot of time trying to “break” into the TV gig, but it is tough.  We are creating a base slowly, and maybe someday.  These guys are coming at it hard and irreverently, perhaps we should insult the royals and make some crazy high ABV shitty beer too.  I guess our […]

Some you might be familiar with the game “Marry, F@$k, Kill” where you are presented with three members of the opposite sex (or the same sex if you live in a progressive state), and you have to pick which one you’d marry, which one you’d use purely for carnal pleasures, and which one you’d send […]

. They say in space, no one can hear you scream.  But I’m in New Jersey and I’m screaming about this LAME MOVIE TIE-IN!!!  It appears that Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel wandered into the lair of Coors Light, which mercilessly attached itself to the movie’s face and inserted its egg laying tube down poor Prometheus’s […]

Well it is another end to a short week this week, and the weekend couldn’t have gotten here quick enough (I know, funny thing for an unemployed guy to say).  But be that as it may, even us unemployed guys need an excuse to relax a bit, stop stressing about the job hunt and kick […]

I recently wrote about great beer with awful labels for Today.com, and the whole topic of “shelf presence” got me to thinking how susceptible I am to primal urges when I’m shopping for beer.  I see a pretty face and go all weak at the knees. It’s like when I was a kid at a […]

It’s been well-documented in this space that I have a problem with hipsters. There’s something about those people and their “fixie” bikes and their trucker hats and their ironic facial hair and their koi fish tattoo sleeves and they’re lumberjack shirts and their love of Pabst Blue Ribbon that makes me want to expose them […]

. Here’s something you don’t see every day, and probably with good reason.  This older gentleman seems very fond of chainsaw, using for the somewhat (in chainsaw terms) delicate task of removing the cap off a bottle of beer.  Well at least he’ll never be frustrated by those silly Churchkey Can Co. cans Don wrote […]

What is old is new again.  Truer words were never spoken where Churchkey Can Co. brewing is concerned.  The other night I went to Brewforia and my buddy Rick had picked these up on a recent trip through Washington.  The concept is simple and as old as metal packaging itself.  Put a liquid in a […]

I’m in full-on get-in-shape mode right now.  I’m waking up at the crack of dawn to work out, I’m watching what I eat like a hawk, and I even got one of those Nike+ Fuelband gizmos to remind me to get off my ass and move around. On the beer front, I’ve gotten very rigid […]

Charlie Papazian wrote an interesting article for the Examiner .com a couple of days ago asking people what the best beer city is for 2012.  This got my head spinning as there are so many great beer cities out there as is evident from the map above  (I know its a state map, but play along). […]

Believe it or not, Jim and I do take this blog pretty seriously.  We really enjoy ourselves here, but we also have to put up new and semi interesting things for you to read in order to get the conversation we love going.  This week the wheels have fallen off of the blog, and it […]