I found out something new on Saturday night.  I found out that 1) it is possible to judge a beer with only a single sip, and 2) some beers are so bad that they are not only judgable with one sip, but really don’t deserve the one sip they get.  Unfortunately that is the case […]

Here it is!  The first taste of the new collaboration brew between Victory, Stone, and Dogfish Head!  Enjoy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, are you ready to RUMBLLLLLLLLLLE?  This is our main event. In this corner, from Colorado, all the way from the Oskar Blues Brewery, Standing 6 inches tall and weighing in at 12 oz with an ABV of 5.2 we have Mama’s Little Yella “Take No Prisoners” Pils!  HHHAAAARRRAAA!  And in the far […]

Why do we love you?  Let me count the ways!  We love you because you send us free beer!  When we started this blog almost a year ago now, we used to say wouldn’t it be great if we could get free beer or whiskey from doing these reviews!  Well here it is!  And it […]

Wild Turkey Bourbon for many has always had the reputation of being a Whiskey for the rough and tumble kinda backwater people.  High proof and publicity can do that.  I recall a line from one of my favorite movies, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, where cousin Eddie is talking about his family and how he has […]

I’m not sure how you all do it, but when it comes to beer drinking I’m a little adventurous until I get burned.  Buffalo Bills Brewery has produced a couple of beers that I have really enjoyed over the last few months.  I started with them with their pumpkin beer in October, which I really […]

Sometimes a beer becomes one of your favorites the moment it first hits your lips.  So was the case for Don when he first laid buds on Troegs Nugget Nectar. He was instantly smitten with the sweet peach-like hoppiness of the beer, and even left with some in his suitcase last time he visited New […]

Well it had to happen.  I knew what I was going to do last December when my Brother sent them.  Around Christmas time last year my Brother and I began trading beer.  I had sent him some brews that he couldn’t get, and vice versa.  It started out as a Christmas gifty kind of thing, […]

My brother Jim has been enamored for some time now with barrel aged beers.  Mostly that has been stouts, because this is a beer that has the structure and flavor profile that can really hold up to wood aging, and can easily integrate the flavors of the wood and whiskey into its flavor profile.  But the […]

The Sockeye Grill and Brewery is a brew pub in Boise that has expanded to the point that they are begining to bottle some of their beers.  Is a matter of fact I think I sent Jim some of their Winterfest brew late last year.  Well their White Pine Pilsner is not avaialable in bottles, […]

Whiskey and horse racing just seem to go together.  Kind of like Miller and NASCAR, but a lot more refined, a lot less horsepower, and with good things to drink, like bourbon.  Kentucky is the home of the American Bourbon industry.  All major distilleries are located in Kentucky, so it is only natural that these […]

The trick to being a good spy is keeping under deep cover.  That is why the classic Spy vs Spy is so funny, and has lasted the last forty years.  Not because they are good spies, but because they are such bad spies.  They were constantly blowing themselves up, or getting the better of the other in […]

So I’m a quirky guy sometimes, and I’m occasionally motivated by strange things.  Take beer labels for example.  If a label is too cartoony or the name of a beer is a pun, I’ll usually avoid it like the plague.  Something inside my head tells me that if they’re trying so hard on the label, […]

When was the last time you went to buy a used car? How was the experience?  Was it fun and interesting, or was it full of pressure and some guy named Vinnie trying to sell you his grandmother’s 87 Taurus with the low miles and crush velvet interior?  Well buying a used car can be […]

Don Galligan…C’mon Down!  You’re the next sucker to buy this beer!  At least that is what I felt like after I opened the Boulevard Collaboration #1 Imperial Pilsner.  You know I had heard it from others saying they wouldn’t pay that much for a Pilsner, but I thought I knew so much more than them! […]