WE’VE BEEN SERVED!  It happened to us!  I guess all the saber rattling over the last few days has spooked big beer, and we got a Cease and Desist  letter from the attorneys at Dewey, Chetham, & Howe, Big Beer’s go to attorneys for squashing little guys like us.  I can’t share all the particulars […]

Growth, growth, growth, growth, growthity growth!  So much growth already.  Craft beer is looking like the Dot Coms of the late 90’s early 2000’s.  Oooh…That can’t be good.  Or is it?  Truth is we just don’t know.  The craft beer industry continued its blistering pace of growth in 2010, during a down economy blah, blah, […]

Well it has happened again.  A major force in the craft beer movement has to pull out of states because demand is too high.  It happened to me personally when Oskar Blues announced last year their withdrawal from Idaho, and it has happened again today with Dogfish Head announcing they are pulling out of four states.  So […]

I never really thought of beer as a commodity before.  It was a drink, and thanks to all the great brewers out there it is a fun and interesting drink.  Truth is we don’t talk very much about the business side of making great craft beer.  No, we just drink it and pretend that the […]

Here is the deal.  Yesterday I posted about an amazing Rye IPA that was brewed by this man.  This is a picture of Fred Colby the owner and Brewmaster of Laughing Dog Brewery.  As I said in my previous post, Fred is one of the nicest, most genuine people you would ever want to meet. […]

I was talking with Fred Colby, Owner and Brewmaster for Laughing Dog Brewery,  and he informed me that the Coeur d’Alene Brewery had shut down.  That was quick.  They made a pretty good pale ale that I reviewed about 8 months ago.  At the time I thought Hummph…Thats too bad. Now you all know I […]

Gone are the days of the white guys in suits sitting in a smoky boardroom coming up with catchy slogans and jingles for the next great hair gel, whiskey, cigarette, or cereal.  Today’s advertising is sleek, budget driven, and results oriented.  Produce or there are 10 other ad agencies that will want my meager fees […]

We’ve officially hit 10,000  comments here on the blog! The lucky winner (of our admiration) is John, who said: I retried Dragons Milk (because of you and Don) and it went from Ehhh to Yumm. Sometimes we’re just not in the mood for a particular beer. No matter how good it is. Not only is […]

There’s a new…I mean old…no, new bourbon in town.  Early times a brand owned by Brown Forman is re-entering the bourbon market.  Probably best known as the distiller of Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey Brown Forman also distills quite a lot of other spirits, including Early Times Kentucky Whiskey.  Early Times has been part of the […]

Think back to about 15 months ago when there was a shortage of Knob Creek Bourbon.  Some say it was a manufactured crisis as some areas had plenty and never ran out and other places didn’t have any on the shelves for almost 6 months.  We talked about it here.  Well, that is ancient history […]

#wk209 I’m rambling a bit today because Last night Jim and I did our podcast about the whiskey we were sent from New Holland And I drank most of it.  No joke, almost a full fifth.  I drank the Brewers Whiskey entirely and the other to about two fingers left in a very skinny bottle. […]

Well this just sucks.  I have it on good authority that Sam Calagione’s Brew Masters has been pulled from the air after just a handful of episodes.  It was good to see craft beer on TV while it lasted I guess. 

Ho ho ho, it’s starting to snow! WordPress has this feature where you can make it snow on your blog.  Seeing as it’s the week of Christmas, I decided to turn it on. I think it’s kind of cool how you can swish it around with your mouse, but also kind of annoying. We don’t […]

We’re excited to be Foodista.com’s “Featured Drink Blog of the Day.” We’re also a little bit intimidated.  What are we going to do with all the foodies who click the link and show up here?  Actually, they’re probably here right now, reading this! Okay, let’s not panic.  To start, we should show them that beer […]

We know you’re out there.  You are the readers, the watchers, the listeners, but what we don’t know is… who are you?  You are the lurkers.  The ones that come to the blog every day or several times a week and read our postings. Our stats say that there are many of you out there, […]